Speed ​​Skating - Final Cabinet meeting in Erfurt
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L & rsquo; last act of the season & nbsp; & nbsp World Cup, staged on ice dell''ovale entitled to the legend of the & nbsp; & nbsp speed skating; German & nbsp; Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann. A & nbsp; Erfurt, CITY Thuringia gi & agrave; historical site of the & nbsp; & nbsp World Cup; skating long track, will challenge the pi & ugrave; strong for the last verdicts. On the eve of & rsquo; last act of the season, are & nbsp; to assign the two general headings & nbsp; the Grand World Cup and well & nbsp; eight specialty & agrave ;.
Friday 20 March 2015 17 minutes reading time
Before the start of the Finals, they gi & agrave; could celebrate a & ldquo; cup & rdquo; Korean Lee Seung-Hoon, gi & agrave; mathematically king of the Mass Start male, and Martina S & aacute; blikov & aacute ;. The champion Czech & egrave; gi & agrave; Safe confirmed in the ranking seasonal female on 3000 and 5000 meters. Decisive l & rsquo; absence of Ireen Wü; st, l & rsquo; only skater who could challenge its title.
At the end of a season-ending truly international, we are & ograve; other absences luxury. Not participating athletes Koreans remained in Asia. In addition to Lee Seung-Hoon & ndash; gi & agrave; certain Cup in Mass Start & ndash; will not be in the race even sprinter Lee Sang-Hwa & ndash; saying goodbye to the chance & agrave; to win the title in the 500 meters & ndash; and the sprinter Mo Tae-Bum, the third so far in the ranking of the sprint distance. But the South Koreans are not the only ones missing. In Erfurt we will not see two of the stars Dutch thicker as Sven Kramer and Koen Verweij, who ended their season early. Because there will be no injury & agrave; even the strong German Samuel Schwarz.
Under the orders of coach Stefano Donagrandi, are five Blues squad for Erfurt, good in & rsquo; have earned qualification for the finals in Germany after six stages between November 2014 and February 2015. The shoes d & rsquo; Italy in action in Germany will be to Andrea Giovannini & ndash; Start off in the Mass and in the 5000 meters -, Nicola Tumolero & ndash; the second blue at the start of the Mass Start - Mirko Giacomo Nenzi & ndash; 500 meters & ndash; and the two girls Yvonne Daldossi & ndash; 500 meters - and Francesca Lollobrigida on the track in the race group.
Who will be the king and queen of the Grand World Cup, or in the general classification of the Cup won & rsquo; from last year & rsquo; coupled American Shani Davis-Heather Richardson? Male sar & agrave; challenge between the Russian Pavel Kulizhnikov and l & rsquo; Dutch Kjeld Nuis. 190 points separate them. Both will compete in the 500 (two sets) and 1000 meters. Here you decider & agrave; Also the overall ranking male. Female, Ireen Wü; st sar & agrave; probably bypassed in the general classification. L & rsquo; Dutch guide with 855 total points. The hound Heather Richardson (715), Martina S & aacute; blikov & aacute; (690), Brittany Bowe (625) and Ivanie Blondin (610).
Recall also that the distribution of scores increases in the Finals. 150 will be the ones available to the winners & ndash; 75 for the first one of the two series of 500 meters & ndash; & Nbsp; in each of the five tests of the Finals in Germany. Ai placed behind them will then 120, 105, 90 and 75 points. In previous Cup races, the winner is awarded it 100 points.
Let's look instead to the situation on the individual distances. C & rsquo; & egrave; an important fact: no man sar & agrave; able to confirm the title last year. Let us analyze the situation in each case.
With 300 points total potential available, the title in the 500 meters do not seem in discussion among men. Too clear supremacy of Pavel Kulizhnikov. The Russian has won seven of the ten races sprint seasonal and could be overridden only by Canadian Laurent Dubreuil. In any case, both should win & ndash; or place themselves within the first two positions in both series & ndash; hoping Kulizhnikov collect very few points. Eventualit & agrave; which is frankly very far, less than or performed outrageous mistakes of leaders. At short distance away, there will be & agrave; Mirko Giacomo Nenzi. The Venetian skater has found the pass to Erfurt having finished in twentieth place in the general classification.
The women will not see the start the leaders - as well as & eacute; world record holder over the distance sprint - Lee Sang-Hwa. The Korean, for & ograve ;, could be confirmed champion even without running. Pu & ograve; only ensnare the Japanese Nao Kodaira. Quest & rsquo; last must recover 150 points at Lee & ndash; Company not difficult because in the finals of the World Cup scoring system changes (150, 120 and 105 for those salir & agrave; on the podium) & ndash; and perci & ograve; could control the situation without taking excessive risks. C & rsquo; & egrave; Yvonne also Daldossi, good to earn a ticket to the finals with a victory in Division B in & rsquo; last stage of Heerenveen.
In 1000 male sar & agrave; challenge to two of Pavel Kulizhnikov and Kjeld Nuis. The first triumphed in three out of six tests on the distance, but the second & egrave; back from two consecutive wins in the last two Cup races, dating back to last month in Heerenveen (Netherlands). At the start of the last two and a half laps of the race, the Russian has 61 points ahead. Mathematically would champion, even if it were to come second behind Nuis. What happened, however, just when the won & rsquo; Dutch.
For women the situation & egrave; wide open. And the future champion 2015 decider & agrave; a shortlist of four candidates packed into 19 points. In the forefront of the fight & ndash; separated by just 39 points & ndash; There are the Chinese Li Qishi and l & rsquo; Dutch Marrit Leenstra. Pi & ugrave; detached from the leader, & egrave; the favored predictable & ndash; l won & rsquo; last Cup race, the World Single Distances and on the World Sprint in & rsquo; last month & ndash; Brittany Bowe. Pi & ugrave; back, but still in the game, the Czech Karolina Erbanov & aacute ;, bronze at the recent World Cup Sprint in Kazakhstan.
1500 male. In head c & rsquo; & egrave; Kjeld Nuis with 336 points. Follow the Norwegian Sverre Lunde Pedersen (altitude 285), fresh bronze at the World Allround, Polish Jan Szymanski and l & rsquo; Dutchman Wouter Olde Heuvel (the latter paired to 261) before the two North American Denny Morrison (Canada) and Shani Davis (United States).
Women: l & rsquo; absence of Cup leader on the distance - with 340 points - Ireen Wü; st opens the games scenario pi & ugrave; uncertain of all in these Finals in Erfurt. After l & rsquo; there are eight Dutch skaters that potentially can still win the & ldquo; cup & rdquo; within 134 points of the star oranje, that hardly conserver & agrave; the brim. Nell & rsquo; order of ranking, the candidates are Marrit Leenstra, Heather Richardson & ndash; separated by 40 lengths and big favorites to win & ndash; Then, pi & ugrave; far, there are Ida Nj & aring; tun, Brittany Bowe, Martina S & aacute; blikov & aacute; and the Dutch duo formed by Marije Joling and Linda de Vries.
5000 meters male. With 301 points scored after the previous five & ldquo; & rdquo labors; between 5 and 10 thousand meters, l & rsquo; timeless Dutchman Bob de Jong will try & agrave; to win for the fourth time in his career the cup of specialty & agrave; over long distances. The 38 year old will have & agrave; defend against attacks Sverre Lunde Pedersen, Aleksandar Rumyantsev and Jorrit Bergsma. (16, 26 and 31 points away from & rsquo; oranje). Still potentially also in the running Douwe de Vries, Bart Swings, Patrick Beckert and Wouter Olde Heuvel. In the race there will be & agrave; Also l & rsquo; blue Andrea Giovannini, who'll want & agrave; round off its first season in which you & egrave; stably inserted in group A specialty & agrave ;.
3000 women. With l & rsquo; absence of Ireen Wü; st, Martina S & aacute; blikov & aacute; & Egrave; gi & agrave; certain of winning the title. Only the four-time Olympic d & rsquo; Holland could undermine the leadership, the result of five podiums in five tests & ndash; two first, two seconds and a third place & ndash; All-round champion of 2015 World Cup in Calgary two weeks ago. The 27 year old festegger & agrave; the ninth consecutive bowl on the 3000 and 5000 meters: a feud indestructible for her.
In the Mass Start Men, Korean Lee Seung-Hoon & egrave; sure to be the new champion of specialty & agrave; and gi & agrave; celebrated the first title of its kind in career. His points advantage over the second provisional, l & rsquo; blue Andrea Giovannini, & egrave; 164 lengths. The victory in & rsquo; last race it would be worth 150, cosicch & eacute; l & rsquo; Italian could not possibly pi & ugrave; reach the summit, despite the & rsquo; absence of & rsquo; Asia. The 21 year old Pinetano potr & agrave; try a new podium of the season, being careful to defend the podium from & rsquo; assault Belgian Bart Swings and not from South Korean Kim Cheol-Min & ndash; absent in Germany cos & Igrave; as his entire team. Besides Giovannini, sar & agrave; Also at the start Nicola Tumolero, fifteenth in the general classification. With two blue sar & agrave; definitely more & ugrave; easy to implement any team games, very important in the race online.
Female sar & agrave; Two challenge for the cup of specialty & agrave ;. In the running are the Canadian Ivanie Blondin and l & rsquo; Dutch Irene Schouten. With two wins apiece, decide for now the best positions of the remaining North American. In the race for the & rsquo; Italy c & rsquo; & egrave; the reigning champion in 2014 Francesca Lollobrigida. The skater Roman & egrave; looking for their first podium of the season. L & rsquo; last year, just in the Cup Finals & ndash; disputatesi Heerenveen & ndash; earned his first victory in the specialty & agrave ;. Chiss & agrave; which can not be repeated in the closure of a season not as fortunate so far.
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The full program of the Finals:
Saturday, March 21, 2015
13:55 First series 500m women Hours 14:18 First series 500m men Hours 14:56 1500m women 1000m men Hours 15:49 Hours 16:28 5000m men
Sunday, March 22, 2015
13:00 3000m women Hours 14:08 Second set 500m women Hours 14:31 Second set 500m men Hours 15:13 1000m women 1500m men Hours 16:08 pm 16:46 pm 17:11 Mass Start Men Mass Start Women
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