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Ice Dresden l & rsquo; Italy & nbsp; the & nbsp; short track & nbsp; great returns. All & rsquo; EnergieVerbund Arena & nbsp; & egrave; party with the flag rising in & nbsp; & nbsp top of the podium, thanks to its super & nbsp; women's relay, winning in 5 years, and two months after the & rsquo; last team success. Decisive, and not the least, the & nbsp; back & nbsp; on the stages of the champions & nbsp; Arianna Fontana, that & ndash; despite the & nbsp; unlucky individual race in the 500 meters & nbsp; & ndash; gives a s & eacute; and her companions & nbsp; Elena Viviani, & nbsp; Arianna Valcepina & nbsp; and & nbsp; Cecilia Maffei & nbsp; a winning finale. A result that was missing for & nbsp; Nagoya in 2011, a & rsquo; Eternit & agrave;. & Nbsp;
Sunday 7 February 2016 18 minutes reading time
Therefore the campaign & nbsp; & nbsp Germany; ends at large pending the & rsquo; last act of the World Cup season in five days. & Nbsp; But there & rsquo; & egrave; It was only l & rsquo; girls exploits this Sunday joys. L & rsquo; Italy brings home two excellent results in the other individual distances. Beginning with the brilliant fourth place in the 1500 meters of Thomas Dotti after being moved up to the board by the repechage. very well Lucia Peretti, fifth in the Final A female distance pi & ugrave; long the program.
by cover girls with a victory that tastes like freedom, facilitated s & igrave; from & rsquo; absence in the final of superpowers such as Korea & ndash; Olympic and World team defending champion -, Canada, China and the European champions of & rsquo; Holland, but quite correct during the four rounds that led Fontana, Maffei, Valcepina, Viviani & ndash; and additionally Peretti and Tombolato, engaged in earlier rounds & ndash; in a splendid gold. L & rsquo; Italy will review lass & ugrave; on top thanks to her blonde arrow Fontana, returned to international competition after almost a year off. It does not seem at all a lucky coincidence. A success d & rsquo; authorities & agrave; in the Final A with Russia, Japan and Hungary. The blue fly early lead by the & rsquo; gait selling it for only a few laps during the 27 laps. The road seems to be pressed directly when Russian come out of scene for free. At that point, after six rounds, the podium discussion remains open for three teams with the Magyar meanwhile exceed the & rsquo; Italy. Unless 11 loses ground the Japanese quartet and blue are worn on the head with easy decisive pass of the Fountain on & rsquo; Hungarian Backsai to -7 from the end of the 3000-meter race. It's up to the 25 year-old plurititolata Valtellina close on parade in 4 & rsquo; 12 & rsquo; & rsquo; 175. L & rsquo; & egrave Hungary; second in 4 & rsquo; 12 & rsquo; & rsquo; 396 ahead of Japan (4 & rsquo; 13 & rsquo; & rsquo; 219).
Very fortunate the way the Italians in the 1500 meters (second series). Female, Lucia Peretti, who had got the pass gi & agrave; in the day Friday & igrave; finishes fifth in the Final A. In the semifinals, the 25 year-old Bormio finds himself contending for the seats for the Finals & ndash; A B & ndash; with the overall champion of the world and leaders of the distance Minjeong Choi (Korea Cup), with his compatriot Noh Hee-Do, Pierron the French, the Chinese Tao Jiaying and the German Walter. L & rsquo; blue follows wisely the Korean duo that dictates the pace of the race. Then comes the parade from Pierron, Tao and Walter. The turning point comes shortly after: -6 to fall Noh & ndash; advanced then in the Final A - and the Chinese. Lucia does not miss the & rsquo; occasion and attacks with courage and readiness, surpassing in sequence first the Alps and then the German. & Egrave; final because & eacute; his second place & ndash; 2 & rsquo; 32 & rsquo; & rsquo; 158 - behind Choi (2 & rsquo; 32 & rsquo; & rsquo; 057) earned her a place among the magnificent six who went to play the victory Finale A. Nell & rsquo; last act gets an excellent 5 & deg; place, his best result in his career (before today was a 12 & deg; place in 1500 in Erzurum, in February 2015). The finals for medals & egrave; He was lived on the leitmotiv that saw the Canadian Maltais against the terrible Korean triptych composed of Choi Minjeong, Noh Hee and Kim Do-Alang. The three will also be the same that monopolize the podium (in the same order d & rsquo; arrival) to a Korean hat-trick ever achieved this season. With this win & ndash; the fourth in the 1500 season & ndash; Choi won the Cup on away mathematically. L & rsquo; blue behaves well, but can not get to the heart of the battle for medals masterfully conducted by the Asian superiority in & agrave; Numerical. Lucia stays behind while Choi takes command of operations with a & rsquo; accelerated sharply to -3 from time. The bearer of & rsquo; army closes in 2 & rsquo; 27 & rsquo; & rsquo; 400 ending cos & igrave; a fifth, consequently gaining the disqualification of Maltais for irregular arrival.
Previously, they had been eliminated in the & rsquo; one semi-final repechage & ndash; that riammetteva two competitors to the main draw & ndash; the other two blue Cecilia Maffei and Federica Tombolato. The two were placed respectively at the 21th and 25th place.
Over the same distance, the blue men placing an athlete among the big names of the Final A. It is of & rsquo; great Thomas Dotti, he ritrovatosi battling with the best interpreters present in Dresden. The promise of the young men's short track close to the podium finishing fourth in 2 & rsquo; 23 & rsquo; & rsquo; 156. Equals cos & igrave; his best result ever achieved in February 2015 on 1000. Vince Korean Seo Yi Ra in 2 & rsquo; 22 & rsquo; & rsquo; 789 (first gold in Business in 1500) in front of the Canadian Alexander Fathoullin and Korean Kwak Yoon-Gy. The turning point came with the crash of & rsquo; Dutch leader Sjinkie Knegt Cup at 2 laps to go. Before him Seo flies to win confidently despite the desperate attempt to recover Fathoullin. Dotti ends less than 3/10 from third place Kwak. In the semifinals c & rsquo; it was also Yuri Confortola first time trial d & rsquo; entry in the semifinals after the batteries of the Fridays & igrave ;. The Bormio of Forestry himself in the same semi-final also his team-mate, the 22 year old Dotti. Quest & rsquo; last had overcome the two repechage rounds on Sunday morning. The Milanese & egrave policeman; among the most & ugrave; Active in the early stages of the race of 13 laps and a half and earn a stunning Final drive with a pass to & rsquo; extension on Canadian Fran & ccedil; ois Hamelin all & rsquo; last lap. Dotti accessed cos & igrave; in his first career final in 1500 finishing second behind the Korean Kwak Yoon-Gy (2 & rsquo; 22 & rsquo; & rsquo; 454). Confortola well, good at back with Dotti in past rounds, placed third & ndash; and therefore flies in Final B & ndash; 2 & rsquo; 22 & rsquo; & rsquo; 622. In the small final, the 29-year veteran of the national team is in second place & ndash; 2 & rsquo; 21 & rsquo; & rsquo; 253 his time & ndash; behind Fran & ccedil; ois Hamelin (2 & rsquo; 21 & rsquo; & rsquo; 086). With this good result, Confortola closes in ninth place in the overall standings over the distance. He was however stopped the decisive recovery semifinals, the third blue Davide Viscardi. The bearer of & rsquo; Agor & agrave; Skating Team & egrave; finished third (2 & rsquo; 33 & rsquo; & rsquo; 815) in the test which boosted the Japanese Keita Watanabe (2 & rsquo; 33 & rsquo; & rsquo; 718). You & egrave; He placed 24th in the final ranking on the distance.
Previously there & rsquo; it was nothing to do for Arianna Valcepina, hunting his first season semi-final. The 21 year old of yellow flame was brilliantly was readmitted into the main draw of the 500 meters after the morning repechage, in which he had passed the two rounds scheduled. L & rsquo; blue surrenders in the quarter-finals & ndash; time of 44 & rsquo; & rsquo; 324 & ndash; the British Elise Christie (43 & rsquo; & rsquo; 099) and the Canadian Audrey Phaneuf (44 & rsquo; & rsquo; 099), while managing to stand in the third place thanks to overtake in & rsquo; last lap on the Chinese Lin Yue. Sar & agrave; 12th in the overall ranking on the sprint distance. Previously Elena Viviani, the second Italian at the start of the repechage, had raised the white flag in the & rsquo; last round of recoveries coming third behind readmitted Valcepina and Yu Sakai (Japan). In the end it will be & agrave; 19th in the rankings.
The Finale To complete the excellent weekend of Marianne St-Gelais, gi & agrave; winner yesterday of the 1000 meters. L & rsquo; Olympic silver medalist over the distance in Sochi 2014, won strength & ndash; in 43 & rsquo; & rsquo; 080 - the duel with a & rsquo; other between the athletes pi & ugrave; in the form of the moment as Elise Christie. For North American plurititolata is the tenth successful on 500 in the World Cup. The British & egrave; second, cos & igrave; the queen of 1500 (first round) yesterday had to settle dell & rsquo; silver, separated by only 35 cents to & rsquo; arrival. Third & egrave; l & rsquo; Dutch Lara van Ruijven, winning the battle for bronze with countryman Yara van Kherkof. For the 23 year-old native of Heerenveen comes cos & igrave; his second career podium after the second place in Montr & eacute; at last November. In the general classification specialty & agrave ;, the St-Gelais will lead to 798 points from the leader as well as & eacute; reigning champion Fan Kexin, absent and Dresden. Behind them c & rsquo; & egrave; Christie.
The men's 500 meters mark & ​​ndash; parallel to the path of his partner in life St-Gelais & ndash; the second hurr & agrave; in Germany for the Canadian Charles Hamelin. The champion qu & eacute; b & eacute; cois renewed the battle with semion elistratov & ndash; He had gi & agrave; He won the one kilometer on yesterday & ndash; and he gets another gold with a time of 40 & rsquo; & rsquo; 251. The Russian is queued to him, that is 80 cents. Russia ref & agrave; winning the bronze medal with the specialist Dmitry Migunov (40 & rsquo; & rsquo; 394) which has the better of the second Canadian Samuel Girard (40 & rsquo; & rsquo; 503). The general classification sees Hamelin overcome its Girard with 30352 against 25616 points companion. The two & ndash; who have already & agrave; announced their absence in Dordrecht & ndash; They may only be undermined by Wu Dajing or Migunov.
Among Italians engaged in the distance pi & ugrave; short, the young Piedmontese Andrea Cassinelli, l & rsquo; one of the patrol called by Kenan Gouadec in the race this morning at 500, has sub & igrave; to a penalty in the batteries repechage. Consequently & egrave; He was demoted to the bottom of the standings over the distance, finishing only 52 & deg ;.
In closing the final Sunday at & rsquo; EnergieVerbund Arena, comes the winner of the men's relay seal license plate Russia. Migunov, Shulginov, Grigorev and Elistratov report their team to success in the Cup after l & rsquo; last hurr & agrave; dated November 2014. The four preceding 6 in & rsquo; 54 & rsquo; & rsquo; 170 Hamelin of Canada and the United States.
Click here to see the full results and the updated rankings of the World Cup after l & rsquo; last day of competition in Dresden. The event will return & agrave; next week, in Dordrecht (Netherlands) with the sixth and final stage of the World Cup season.
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