Two fourth championship for Francolini and Lollobrigida: Mass Start love for Italy. Netherlands and Russia at the top

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Speed ​​Skating - World Single Distances of Kolomna

Two fourth championship for Francolini and Lollobrigida: Mass Start love for Italy. Netherlands and Russia at the top

Close with other & nbsp; two wooden medals & nbsp; the & nbsp Italian, World Single Distances of & nbsp; the & nbsp; Kolomna. In Russia, there's two more bitter placings for National & nbsp; Maurizio Marchetto. After & nbsp; fourth & nbsp; in & nbsp; Team Pursuit men of Friday & igrave; Last, it is up to the specialists & nbsp; & nbsp Mass Start, finish quickly & nbsp; behind the podium. Just in specialty & agrave; where they were pinned greater hopes of Italian medal, & nbsp; Fabio Francolini & nbsp; and & nbsp; & nbsp Francesca Lollobrigida; stop a few cents from glory.

Nell & rsquo; last day of competition at the Kolomna Speed ​​Skating Centre celebrates again Russia Pavel Kulizhnikov, that clearly wins the 500 meters in front of compatriot Ruslan Murashow. L & rsquo; Dutch Jorien ter Mors also takes the title of 1500 after that of 1000, leaving the US with no golds strong Bowe and Richardson, large real disappointed of the World Cup 2016. In the online games then come the hurr & agrave; Winning for Canada and South Korea. In the women won Ivanie Blondin, while among men triumphs l & rsquo; Asian Lee Seung-Hoon. In the final medals table, triumphs & rsquo; Holland with six titles up for grabs on the 14 total (to which are added 6 silvers and 5 bronzes) in Kolomna. Behind oranje are placed Russians & ndash; which stand for the three golds all male & ndash; in front of Korea. L & rsquo; Italy closes with zero podiums & ndash; unlike the & rsquo; 2015 edition in which you celebrate memorize options l & rsquo; silver Francolini in Mass Start - but the three fourth places, combined with other good placings Andrea Giovannini, David and Nicola Bosa Tumolero confirm the steady growth of the movement of long-track after the return of the technical miracles of Marchetto. 16 laps (& ldquo; squared & rdquo; between men and women) bewitched for the Italian colors in the two Start Mass that they put an end to the 2016 Championships at men, the headlights were all focused on Fabio Francolini and on & rsquo; Dutch Arjan Stroetinga, respectively vice-champion and defending champion in the discipline that had made its entry in the World Championship program in 2015 and that it will be & agrave; Olympic in 2018. Both suffer insult from the South Korean & ndash; gi & agrave; Olympic champion in Sochi in 10 thousand meters and silver at the World Championships in 2011 & ndash 5 thousand; Lee Seung-Hoon. The Asian skater year ago won the World Cup of specialty & agrave; the check after a hard-fought race surpassing all & rsquo; s own arrival & rsquo; Stroetinga Dutch. With the final sprint, Lee wins cos & igrave; the decisive points to take l & rsquo; gold after 7 & rsquo; 18 & rsquo; & rsquo; 26. L & rsquo; silver goes all & rsquo; oranje, which capitulates to just 6 cents after a race built along with teammate Jorrit Bergsma. Third place & ndash; to 15 cents from the winner & ndash; It ends back at Alexis Contin (France) that separates the canturino Fabio Francolini in the decisive sprint. The 29 year-old blue, back from three consecutive podiums in the last Mass Start World Cup, can not find the speed & agrave; necessary to get closer to the top three. Sar & agrave; fourth in the sprint after 7 & rsquo; 19 & rsquo; & rsquo; 35. Well the second blue in the race, l & rsquo; newcomer in an individual race at the World Cup, Nicola Tumolero. The 21 year old of Roana (Vicenza) closes its test all & rsquo; 11 & deg; instead, he remained glued to the final sprint of the first group. Bitterly similar fate in the women's race. Francesca Lollobrigida, a title of specialty & agrave; in the World Cup in 2014 and three podiums in his career, he will stop at the wooden medal. Even the figure skater who lives and trains in the Netherlands arrives in the main group that plays the decisive points for the title, but the Roman dell & rsquo; Air Force comes in seventh place in & rsquo; last sprint. decisive for its placement is for her the points won in the intermediate sprints. Victory goes to the Canadian Ivanie Blondin, among the best performers of the Mass Start in the last two years, as testified gi & agrave; second place in Heerenveen, 2015. The North American regulates competition after 8 & rsquo; 17 & rsquo; & rsquo; 53. Behind him l & rsquo; balance and the & rsquo; uncertainty or almost as & eacute; Total resolved in favor of South Korea's Kim Bo-Reum, silver, and the Japanese Miho Takagi, third to one-hundredth of a difference compared to & rsquo; Dutch defending champion Irene Schouten, great defeat on the Kolomna ice. Also in the men's 500 meters, l & rsquo; Italy has deployed dual card players at the start of the distance pi & ugrave; short program. In the first set & ndash; who also opened the final day of competition - good & egrave; David Bosa. The 23 year-old sprinter Trentino national record holder over the distance has concluded his evidence in 35 & rsquo; & rsquo; 16 (17 & deg; time trial on 24 competitors), one of his best ever time, the third to be exact. Pi & ugrave; back Mirko Giacomo Nenzi, third to last in 35 & rsquo; & rsquo; 41. In round two, the policeman of Novaledo (Trento) further improves running in 35 & rsquo; & rsquo; 04 (tenth overall time trial), far only 25 cents from their Italian record. Nenzi, however, be & agrave; worse than all & rsquo; debut on Russian ice closing in 35 & rsquo; & rsquo; 57, 21 & deg; time of the second series. Bosa is classificher & agrave; cos & igrave; to 12 & deg; place with 70,200. Nenzi, however, closes 22th with 70,980. The world title & egrave; went, as expected, the undisputed ruler of & rsquo; last year at 500, the Russian Pavel Kulizhnikov. The darling of the Kolomna Speed ​​Skating Centre has again enhanced its public conquering cos & igrave; her second gold at the Championships in 2016 & ndash; yesterday had already & agrave; triumphed on the 1000 & ndash; confirming its champion after the success of Heerenveen 2015. The world record holder has to memorize options struggle to be right compatriot Ruslan Murashow, winner of the first set in 34 & rsquo; & rsquo; 600, first to just five thousandths compared to the 2015 champion in the second and decisive set, Kulizhnikov calls into clear hierarchies going to take l & rsquo; gold a 34 & rsquo; & rsquo; final 24 that does not allow replies. Also because & eacute; Murashow & ndash; in direct confrontation in & rsquo; last Battery & ndash; shipwrecked or almost 35 & rsquo; & rsquo; 08. Kulizhnikov wins cos & igrave; with the overall score & ndash; to the sum of the two times & ndash; to 69,020, while Murashow defending second place and l & rsquo; silver closing at 60,680. The bronze goes to the Canadian Alex Boisvert-Lacroix thanks mainly to the 34 & rsquo; & rsquo; 70 obtained in the second test: totalizzer & agrave; a score of 69,788, capturing his first world medal and leaving off the podium for only 10 basis points, the Finnish veteran Mika Poutala. The 1500m women final race against time in the women's field, have rewarded an extraordinary Jorien ter Mors. L & rsquo; Dutch born in 1989, gi & agrave; d & rsquo; gold in 1000 Fridays & igrave ;, replies with a magnificent winning try on the kilometer and a half. L & rsquo; oranje Olympic champion over the distance adds cos & igrave; l & rsquo; iris to his palmares running in Kolomna in 1 & rsquo; 53 & rsquo; & rsquo; 92, not far from his personal best. After Annamarie Thomas (1996) and Ireen W & uuml; st (2007, 2011 and 2013), l & rsquo; Netherlands back to win the title. Once again the US fail l & rsquo; appointment with the world title, gi & agrave; escaped to Russia of 500 and 1000 meters. The world record holder Heather Richardson-Bergsma & ndash; between the & rsquo; more outgoing bronze - it does not go over the time of 1 & rsquo; 54 & rsquo; & rsquo; 67 that it is d & rsquo; silver medal. Third place it the & rsquo; other champion of Team USA, Brittany Bowe (1 & rsquo; 55 & rsquo; & rsquo; 09), which captures the podium failing to memorize options confirms the title won in 2015. The North American leaves Ireen W & uuml; st at the foot of the podium, detached from the medals zone of 84 cents. Pi & ugrave; back & ndash; in the time trial level & ndash; two of the favorites for the podium: Martina S & aacute; blikov & aacute; & Egrave; fifth in 1 & rsquo; 56 & rsquo; & rsquo; 05, while Marrit Leenstra (Netherlands) & egrave; sixth and pi & ugrave; slow to 19 cents compared to the Czech 12 world titles in his career. Click here for all orders d & rsquo; arrival and the time of the World Championships of Single Distances 2016.
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