Short Track - World Junior Championships in Osaka
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Overall multisport dell & rsquo; Osaka Pool Ice Rink, used as a track & nbsp; ice skating & nbsp; in the winter season, will be played for the first time in & nbsp; Japan, & nbsp; the & nbsp; leagues & nbsp; World Junior & nbsp; & nbsp; short track. From tomorrow the capital of & rsquo; namesake Osaka Prefecture will see & agrave; staged a & nbsp; & nbsp 22nd edition, the competition pi & ugrave; coveted at youth level, reserved for skaters et & agrave; between 14 and 19 years.
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Who will be the successors of the Korean Noh Hee-Do & ndash; rainbow, between the & rsquo; another, in the last two editions & ndash; and Lee Mun-Hyeon? The name of the new samples will & agrave; unveiled Sunday among the lot of 48 females and 78 males at the start of the first race & ndash; 1500 meters & ndash; night in Italian. As usual will be played first batteries qualifying Friday & Igrave; & Ndash; three of the individual events, pi & ugrave; those of the relays & ndash; while on Saturday 28 and Sunday 1, the space will be & agrave; reserved for the final.
The format of the competition & egrave; therefore similar to that of the World Senior. The best young skaters in the world will compete in the usual four tests then & ndash; in chronological order - individual: 1500, 500, 1000, and the final Super Final with the eight top finishers in the sum points on the previous distances. Final & ndash; unlike 3000 for & ldquo; big & rdquo; & Ndash; you disputer & agrave; still on the mile race. At the end of & rsquo; last act will come & agrave; compiled the overall points classification, which sancir & agrave; champion and world champion Junior Overall.
In addition to routine tests, as usual, will be played the team competitions. Obviously, the relay remains one of the races more & ugrave; spectacular ice. And, again, there & rsquo; & egrave; a small difference compared to the big leagues. If for female quartets mileage will stay & agrave; unchanged & ndash; always 3000 meters & ndash; for males passer & agrave; by the canons 5000 to 3000. So you garegger & agrave; about 27 laps instead of & eacute; 45 rounds.
L & rsquo; Italian sar & agrave; in Japan with eight representatives. Guided by technical Silvano Bertoldi and Mara Zini, the Azzurrini in action on the ice will be Japanese Asia Antonioli, Mattia Antonioli, Mark Jordan (Bormio Ice), Gloria Malfatti, Arianna Sighel, Matthew Pedranz (Sporting Club Pergine), Nicole Gomez Botter and Leonardo Ball (AEV Sportmen DG Bolzano).
In detail, are six Italians in the running for the individual title. Male c & rsquo; & egrave; Mark Giordano, who has gi & agrave; participated in & rsquo; edition 2014, coming 49th in the Overall standings. Obviously punter & agrave; to improve the position obtained twelve months ago. Giordano also & egrave; was the best Junior - eighth & ndash; the latest Absolute Championships. Not sar & agrave; World Championship for the first time even the other members of the men's team at the start in the individual competition. On the one hand c & rsquo; & egrave; Leonardo Ball gi & agrave; all & rsquo; operates in the relay & ndash; disput & ograve; batteries and quarter-finals - in 2014, cos & Igrave; as Mattia Antonioli that you race & ograve; in 2013 in Warsaw, where the quartet is blue Classific & ograve; seventh.
Arianna Sighel & egrave; maybe l & rsquo; athlete on which hopes are pinned major Italian. The 18 year-old daughter d & rsquo; Art of Italian Ice & ndash; pap & agrave; Roberto & egrave; was world champion allround in long track & ndash; & Egrave; back from his first career World Cup Senior. The fact has thirty weight part in the races earlier this month, disputatesi in Dresden, where he collected a & rsquo; excellent 23rd place in the 1500m. His 2015 also began with a brilliant fifth place overall in the Italian Championships in Turin. Gloria Malfatti has competed a year ago at the World Championships in Erzurum, ranking 47th on 66 athletes participating. Winner of & rsquo; Alta Valtellina Trophy last November, & egrave; Junior was also the second best ranked the last Absolutes tricolor, where since early January & Igrave; in seventh place overall. She also came to the Super Final (stravinta by Arianna Fontana) with a & rsquo; other Junior A as Asia Antonioli & ndash; that in Osaka correr & agrave; in relay. The third Italian in & rsquo; individual & egrave; Nicole Gomez Botter, the pi & ugrave; young of & rsquo; entire shipment blue: & egrave; in fact born in June 1997.
What are the possibilities & agrave; Blues? Difficult to predict. The lot of favorites and favorite appears cos & Igrave; outlined. Sure, Korea and China & ndash; superpowers showing their Junior at the top also at & ldquo; Absolute & rdquo; & Ndash; are the National to beat. But quest & rsquo; year there seems to be more & ugrave; balance.
In the historic general rankings, the Azzurrini have so far won three individual medals in the event. A d & rsquo; silver, in 2000, with Nicola Rodigari and two bronze with women. The first with Marta Capurso & ndash; in 1999 in Montr & eacute; to & ndash; and l & rsquo; last with Martina Valcepina, on the step pi & ugrave; down the final podium in Courmayeur 2011. For example, Arianna Fontana, albeit gi & agrave; podium & ndash; the relay - in et & agrave; Youth Olympics, was only fifth in 2009 and fourth, just l & rsquo; previous year. Previously, he was 11th in 2007 and seventh in 2006, to 16 years to accomplish.
A level relay there are more & ugrave; satisfactions and podium finishes. One with males (Confortola, Urbani and Bellotti) that were d & rsquo; Silver Medal in 2004. replicated in 2008 with the girls (Peretti, M. Valcepina Fontana). But l & rsquo; & ograve arriv following year; l & rsquo; gold with the same formation that conquered & ograve; Olympic bronze in 2014: Marina Valcepina, Lucia Peretti, Arianna Fontana and Elena Viviani won the 3,000 meters in Canada. The bis winning arriv & ograve; then in 2011 (in Courmayeur) with sisters Arianna and Martina Valcepina, Ylenia Tota and Elena Viviani. L & rsquo; last final of the women's relay dates back to 2013, but the Italians did not go beyond the fourth.
Click here to know the details, the full program and competitors in the race to Osaka from tomorrow, February 27 to Sunday, 1 & deg; March.
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