Short Track - European Championship in Sochi
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The king and queen of the & nbsp; & nbsp European short track, are those "expected". With the icing on the cake represented by & nbsp; & nbsp bronze, won by the girls & nbsp; the blue of the relay. A medal that gives finally a smile to the Italian Shipping & Outdoors; Iceberg Skating Palace & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp Sochi, (Russia). In the third and final day at the & nbsp; the European Championships in 2016 & nbsp; have come anyway twists really unexpected in its final stages, although the main festival & egrave; reserved for & nbsp; & nbsp Elise Christie, (Great Britain) and & nbsp; Semen Elistratov & nbsp; (Russia).
Sunday 24 January 2016 26 minutes reading time
But the joy comes waiting for the & rsquo; Italian women, able to get back on the European podium with his relay to four years dall''argento of Mlada Boleslav and after many, perhaps too many, disappointment with continental in subsequent editions. This time Cecilia Maffei, Lucia Peretti, Arianna Valcepina and Elena Viviani, & nbsp; to which should be added also Federica Tombolato who ran the battery, are excellent third on the 3000 meters team and rimpinguano an Italian budget that could possibly point to satisfaction pi & ugrave; high. And, the blue team starts from here, from this precious medal, pending the & rsquo; imminent return of the blue star Arianna Fontana. A good way to end three days of Sochi that seemed subdued for the national team led by coach Kenan Gouadec and start over with the awareness of the value of short track Italian.
In the individual all wins British Christie. For her, this is the second career title after the & rsquo; gold last year. The 25 year-old dominates the scene in front of the female triumph and compatriot Charlotte Gilmartin & Outdoors; Dutch Suzanne Schulting, both the first overall podium in a European Championship. A double gold-silver historic skating UK: never before & rsquo; now two compatriots had won gold and silver in the same edition. In the men, however, the 25 year old Elistratov get their first win overall after two bronzes & ndash; 2012 and 2015 & ndash; and a silver won in 2014. The native of Ufa skater becomes the second athlete to win the & rsquo; Europe with the suit of Russia in 2014 after the triumph of the Korean born Viktor Ahn. L & rsquo; silver goes to the Hungarian Sandor Liu Shaolin, leading the & rsquo; Hungary on the podium overall men for the first time. The bronze goes, with great surprise, the Frenchman Vincent Jeanne. Before him only Thibaut Fauconnet, Maxime Chataignier and Bruno Loscoss had brought the French flag at similar levels.
Satisfactions blue in a European who seemed, even to its jokes, disappointing & ndash; tradition has always seen an Italian medal since 1997 -, therefore arrive with the women's relay, is it a guarantee in recent seasons in which he managed to win Olympic medals & ndash; the same system of Sochi, in 2014 - and the world. The Italian quartet, who qualified in the Final A with the Netherlands, Hungary and Russia & egrave; surprised by the departure of a thousand with the & rsquo; lightning attack of the Dutch fly inexorably towards victory. The blue Maffei, Peretti, and Viviani Valcepina seem to lose the & rsquo; moment to engage the train of pursuers Hungarian and Russian. The race for medals not & egrave; lost and c & rsquo; & egrave; for them time to recover. Cos & Igrave removed ;, the & rsquo; impregnable team oranje doing running s & eacute ;, & egrave; a race with three Russian and Hungarians for the two remaining places on the podium. Overtaking against Italian of & rsquo; Hungary gets four laps to go, when the blue outweigh, take the virtual podium and defend it until & eacute; it becomes a certainty. Vince l & rsquo; Netherlands (ter Mors, Kherkof van, van and Ruijven Schulting) in 4 & rsquo; 12 & rsquo; & rsquo; 556, while the second place was Russia, off by more than two seconds. Behind them c & rsquo; & egrave; a splendid Italian team, which closes & ndash; 4 & rsquo; 15 & rsquo; & rsquo; 219 - less than three tenths from & rsquo; silver, good at adjusting the Magyar.
In & rsquo; individual, Elena Viviani & egrave; the best of the Italian. The Valtellina closes in tenth place overall, improving his best position in his career, the 14 & deg; place dating back to 2011. Well even Arianna Valcepina, which closes all & rsquo; 11 & deg; place & ndash; but no points & Outdoors; active conquered during distances. Lucia Peretti & egrave; 16th and fails to repeat the & rsquo; 11th place overall & ndash; best finish & ndash; obtained in Dordrecht 2015. Disappointing the two men Yuri Confortola and Tommaso Dotti, respectively 13 & deg; and 28 & deg; & Ldquo; overall & rdquo ;. It expected much more of & ugrave; the two boys to the orders of c.t. blue Gouadec. Disappointments in part mitigated by the beautiful girls blue Company, winning the 12th European medal in relay & ndash; 6 gold, 4 silver and one bronze earlier & ndash; and victory in Final B for the men's relay composed by Andrea Cassinelli, Yuri Confortola, Nicola and Tommaso Dotti Rodigari.
Earlier, in the women's 1,000 meters, Elena Viviani had tried to fight for the chance & agrave; access to Final A struggling in a complex & ndash; for quality & agrave; of opponents & ndash; semifinals with five athletes. Pass Elise Christie (1 & rsquo; 32 & rsquo; & rsquo; 529) and Anna Seidel (1 & rsquo; 32 & rsquo; & rsquo; 893), which fly easily to the first two squares. L & rsquo; blue hires a good battle for the positions immediately following the French Veronique Pierron and get a third place (time of 1 & rsquo; 33 & rsquo; & rsquo; 526) that is still the qualification The Viviani had begun well his Sunday on ice Olympic track that was in 2014. The 23 year-old of yellow flame was advanced in a difficult and tense quarter-final with European champion Elise Christie & ndash; first in 1 & rsquo; 34 & rsquo; & rsquo; 988 & ndash; following her at the finish line with 1 & rsquo; 35 & rsquo; & rsquo; 909. The Lombard advantage of contacts in front of her, putting out because the German Walter White & ndash; then advanced by the judges & ndash; and the Russian Emina Malagich, disqualified. Nothing to be done, however, to Arianna Valcepina. The Valtellina original Cepina (Sondrio), is off cue decisive accaparrasi one of two first places needed to qualify for the semifinals. L & rsquo; blue closes in third place after a race in line for most of the 9 laps. Terminer & agrave; his performance in 1 & rsquo; 33 & rsquo; & rsquo; & rsquo 884 behind; Schulting Dutch and British Gilmartin just 95 cents away from qualifying. Also on the kilometer, took to the track in the morning was Lucia Peretti, in the batteries out of Friday & Igrave; last. L & rsquo; athlete Bormina tesserata for the Army Sports Centre is a good test in the batteries valid to assign the final placements on the distance. L & rsquo; Blue wins with a pass to & rsquo; last lap on the Belarusian Trybul, finishing in 1 & rsquo; 40 & rsquo; & rsquo; 441. Sar & agrave; 21th in the final ranking of the 1000.
In the subsequent Final B, the Viviani misses the gear change. Committed against the vice-champion of 1500 Jorien ter Mors (Netherlands), Veronique Pierron (France) and Ekaterina Konstantinova (Russia). L & rsquo; blue follows the Dutch and Russian, then undergoes overtaking the Frenchman in the third lap. The 1992 Financial inexorably lose ground because of & rsquo; s brisk & rsquo; oranje. Quest & rsquo; last won the small final in 1 & rsquo; 34 & rsquo; & rsquo; 250 on Konstantinova and Pierron. Viviani closes the fourth, far from the first, in 1 & rsquo; 35 & rsquo; & rsquo; 025. Sar & agrave; eighth in the overall standings on the 1000 placement that does not allow it cos & Igrave; to earn one point for the overall ranking. A booty not enough to make it back in the top 8 for the Super Final.
L & rsquo; gold & egrave; all of Elise Christie. The 25-year old Scotsman gives cos & Igrave; the third title in three after the success of yesterday on 1500 and 500 meters. The British win with the usual safety and personality & agrave; devastating. 1 & rsquo; 33 & rsquo; & rsquo; 285 his time winning a hat-trick in the prestigious distance that a year ago the sfugg & Igrave ;. Silver for the baby of the terrible short runway Dutch Suzanne Schulting (1 & rsquo; 33 & rsquo; & rsquo; 347), which adds a metal bronze won in 1500. Third comes the German Anna Seidel. She too young & ndash; class in 1998 - his first podium in a European Championship. Short track female Germany had risen only twice & ndash; in 2000 and 2005, two bronzes on 1000 - on a podium individual women. Then we thought & ograve; Yvonne Kunze.
In the Super Final women & ndash; race that has awarded the title of European cuisine to agrave ;, but only the last points for the overall classification & ndash; & Egrave; arrived l & rsquo; yet another show of Britain. Christie completes its European cannibal in the race that saw the top eight at the start in & ldquo; & rdquo general; after 1500, 500 and 1000 meters, controlling and helping teammate Charlotte Gilmartin to get on second place overall. European champion has first given the strong showing, winning 5 points on the intermediate sprint of the 1000 meters, leaving empty-handed the Dutch. Shortly after they knocked down Jorien ter Mors & ndash; leaky cos & Igrave; bronze overall - and Pierron. All & rsquo; arrival of 3000 meters passes through before the & rsquo; Suzanne Schulting Dutch (Netherlands) in front of the & rsquo; other British Charlotte Gilmartin, the Russian Ekaterina Konstantinova and & Outdoors; Dutch Lara Van Ruijven. But the final twist comes to race over, with the penalty sub & Igrave; ta from the young Dutchman then disqualified by the judges. & Ldquo; Let & rdquo; cos & Igrave; victory & ndash; and the resulting 34 points & ndash; to Gilmartin, good at staying out of trouble.
Less positive & egrave; It was the day of the men with the blue suit. Two immediate deletions to the standard bearers of Italian ice in the 1000 meters men. No passage of turn for a while determined Tommaso Dotti, among the most & ugrave; Active in his difficult quarter-final. The policeman Milan to play with safety the top positions, but undergoes a contact with Artem Kozlov (Russia) who slips it in last position on the penultimate lap. Vince then l & rsquo; Hungarian Liu Shaolin (1 & rsquo; 27 & rsquo; & rsquo; 822), just ahead of the Russian. Dotti closes in fifth and last place (1 & rsquo; 29 & rsquo; & rsquo; 243) without action by the courts. Elimination with mockery for Yuri Confortola. The 29 year-old twice d & rsquo; silver distance & ndash; 2007 and 2009 - a test race d & rsquo; attack in a quarter-final full of scrimmage. L & rsquo; blue flies overhead trying to maintain the position of privilege, but suffers from overtaking first Russian Dmitry Migunov e when he was second & ndash; lost time, speed & agrave; and positions because of the very strong attempt by German Felix Spiegl. Attempting sub & Igrave; to ruining the race Confortola, which inexorably scale back of the pack and leave the green light to the qualifications of Migunov and van der Wart. L & rsquo; athlete of Forestry & subir agrave; a & rsquo; further insult when & egrave; was imposed a penalty for contact with German, then he advanced into the semifinals. A decision at least controversial.
The European title of the 1000 goes to 25-year old Russian Semen Elistratov, which guarantees cos & Igrave; the second gold in Sochi and, consequently, the European title in 2016 before the dispute of the Super Final to eight. A final A pretty disappointing & ndash; As for the show & ndash ;, monopolized by click and from & rsquo; gait Elistratov until closing at 1 & rsquo; 33 & rsquo; & rsquo; net. Behind him decide the paw of Liu Shaolin Sandor (Hungary), good at finding the crack right & Outdoors; output of & rsquo; last curve on the line d & rsquo; arrival. The Hungarian-born Chinese than 7 milliseconds for the second rider of Russia, Dmitry Migunov, who had to settle for bronze. In the semifinals he was instead was disqualified - for impeding, with subsequent violent impact with the & rsquo; Hungarian Liu Shaoang - l & rsquo; Dutch champion in 2015 on distance Sjinkie Knegt. A ban that does, in fact, say goodbye to the chance & agrave; to confirm continental champion overall.
Twists and turns in the sensational Super Final on 3000 meters for men. The competition rewards the perfect team of France. The transalpine, strong duo Lepape Jeanne-qualified for the & rsquo; last individual act, try the & rsquo; immediate action to take advantage of the tour & ndash; and another 5 points up for grabs in the resulting intermediate step in 1000 & ndash; to indent Vincent Jeanne in games for the overall podium. Behind them Sjinkie Knegt & ndash; third in the standings before the Super Final & ndash; no rushing after them and the French & ndash; with Polish Onopko in wake & ndash; keep the back of the lead. Just Jeanne, born in 1991, won ahead of compatriot and Polish. Behind them are placed Liu Shaolin Sandor & ndash; defending cos & Igrave; l & rsquo; overall silver & ndash; and a very disappointed Knegt. Quest & rsquo; last, not only lost the title in 2015 by Elistratov & ndash; seventh in the Super Final and gi & agrave; certain of victory - but also lose the bronze overall general surprise.
As for the final of the men's relay, c & rsquo; & egrave; to signal the triumph & ndash; which goes in part to mitigate a disappointing European orange colors - of & rsquo; Holland. Knegt, van der Wart, Breeuwsma and Visser won the & rsquo; gold in 7 & rsquo; 12 & rsquo; & rsquo; 495 front & Outdoors; Hungary (7 & rsquo; 12 & rsquo; & rsquo; 634) and to the surprise UK, able to get back on the men's podium after five years d & rsquo ;absence. Terrible disappointment for Russia, champion team that pointed to a golden, that & egrave; only fourth because of a free fall of its competitor Migunov when he was in the fight for medals. As anticipated l & rsquo; Italy, eliminated in the semifinals yesterday by Russia and Hungary, he takes over the Final B ahead of France. The Azzurri engage in a good battle with the transalpine and take advantage of their mistake in the final stages of the 5000 meters to beat them without taking too many risks. Shut cos & Igrave; in fifth place overall.
Click here to see the results of the third day and the final standings of Sochi 2016.
The final appearances PODIUM OF THE THIRD AND LAST DAY GENERAL AND FINAL STANDINGS (The Super Final not award the European title over the distance, are valid only for the & rsquo; assigning points in the overall standings).
1000m women 1. Elise Christie (GBR) 2. Suzanne Schulting (NED) 3. Anna SEIDEL (GER) 8. Elena Viviani (ITA) 11. VALCEPINA Arianna (ITA) 21. PERETTI Lucia (ITA)
3000 meters women's Super Final 1. GILMARTIN Charlotte (GBR) 2. Ekaterina Konstantinova (RUS) 3. Lara Van Ruijven (NED)
1000m men ELISTRATOV 1. Semen (RUS) 2. LIU Shaolin Sandor (HUN) 3. Migunov Dmitry (RUS) 17. Thomas DOTTI (ITA) 20. Yuri CONFORTOLA (ITA)
3000 meters men's Super Final 1. JEANNE Vincent (FRA) 2 LEPAPE Sebastien (FRA) 3. Onopko Bartosz (POL)
3000 meters women's relay 1. HOLLAND RUSSIA 2. 3. ITALY
5000 meter men's relay NETHERLANDS 1. 2. 3. GREAT BRITAIN HUNGARY RUSSIA 4. 5. ITALY
FINAL OVERALL FEMALE 1. Elise Christie (GBR) 112 points 2. GILMARTIN Charlotte (GBR) 47 3. Suzanne Schulting (NED) 42 4. Lara Van Ruijven (NED) 35 5. Ekaterina Konstantinova (RUS) 32 6. Anna SEIDEL (GER) 29 7. Jorien TER MORS (NED) 28 8. Veronique PIERRON (FRA) 18 9. Evgeniya Zakharova (RUS) 5 10. VIVIANI Elena (ITA) 4 11. VALCEPINA Arianna (ITA) & hellip ;. 16. PERETTI Lucia (ITA)
FINAL OVERALL MALE 1. Semen ELISTRATOV (RUS) 91 points 2. LIU Shaolin Sandor (HUN) 50 3. JEANNE Vincent (FRA) 44 4. Sjinkie Knegt (NED) 40 5. LEPAPE Sebastien (FRA) 32 6. Dmitry Migunov (RUS) 29 7. Onopko Bartosz (POL) 26 8. Freek VAN DER WART (NED) 19 & hellip ;. 13. Yuri CONFORTOLA (ITA) 1 28. DOTTI Thomas (ITA)
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