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Second in the World Cup classification in the specialty last year, Andrea Giovannini wins the first Mass Start of the new season at the photo finish.
Sunday 18 November 2018 8 minutes reading time
Only blue on track, Giovannini, after obtaining the second place in the first intermediate sprint, maintains control of the operations for the entire test and mock all the fotofinish ahead of only one hundred on the finish line the Dutch Schouten, second, with the South Korean Cheonho Um third to four cents. For the twenty-five of the Fimma Gialle it is the fourth victory in the World Cup, all obtained in this format of competition, after Seoul in 2015, Astana two seasons ago and Calgary last year.
In the fast tests, the 2018/2019 World Cup starts in the sign of the Russian Pavel Kulizhnikov who imposes himself in the second race of 500 meters and 1000 meters and to complete the personal loot wins the second position in the first test of 500 meters where the Norwegian Havard Lorentzen (third Saturday). The other podium positions speak Japanese with Tatsuya Shinhama third on Friday and Ryohei Haga second on Saturday. In the double distance the second place goes to the Dutchman Kjeld Nuis and the third position to the compatriot Thomas Krol. Another Russian victory and orange honor position in the 1500 meters where Denis Yuskov wins before Kjeld Nuis and Patrick Roest. The 22-year-old Allround world champion, already nominated as the 'heir of Sven Kramer wins the first career victory in the World Cup in 5000 meters where precedes the Russian Aleksandr Rumyantsev and compatriot Marcel Bosker.
In a stage that spoke Russian and Dutch, Russia was a surprise in the Team Pursuit ahead of the orange army and Norway while the Netherlands won the Sprint Team ahead of Norway and Canada. Andrea Giovannini, Michele Malfatti and Francesco Betti are sixth in the Team Pursuit while the Azzurri have not started in the Sprint Team.
In addition to the victory in Mass Start, Andrea Giovannini signs the seventh place in the 5000 meters with Michele Malfatti and Davide Ghiotto tenth and twelfth while Daniel Niero is twenty-first in Division B. Still in Division B but in 1500 meters Giovannini is thirteenth, Francesco Betti seventeenth and Alessio Trentini twenty-fifth. In the 1000 meters David Bosa is ranked tenth in Division B after having obtained the fifth and seventh in Division B of the two races on the 500 meters.
The Japanese Nao Kodaira continues its impressive unbeaten on the 500 meters where it does not lose from the beginning of the 2016-2017 season. With the two victories obtained in Obihiro, he reaches seventeen victories on seventeen holdings in World Cup events, as well as the Gold at the PyeongChang Olympics, two World Championship titles at the Single Distance Championships and the four victories in the four 500-meter races. in two Sprint World Championships. A superiority that is unmatched in other disciplines. The European champion Single Distance, the Austrian Vanessa Herzog, twice goes up on the second step of the podium, while the third place goes to the Japanese Maki Tsuji in the first race and the second to the Russian Olga Fatkulina.
Vanessa Herzog takes the revenge in the 1000 meters winning the third career victory in a World Cup race after the two obtained last year in Erfurt in absentia of the Japanese team; still on the podium, with the second place Nao Kodaira, while it is third Miho Takagi, the dominator in the last season of the 1500 meters World Cup. The Japanese must settle for second place behind the US surprise Brittany Bowe. Third place for the Russian Yekaterina Shikhova. The 5000 meter Olympic champion, the Dutch Esmee Visser who defeats the Russian Natalia Voronina and the Czech Martina Sablikova, is required in the 3000 meters. In the Mass Start on the podium you can see the same athletes who have populated the Olympic podium of PyeongChang: the Japanese Nana Takagi wins again while the positions are exchanged by the Dutch Irene Schouten second and the Korean Bo-Reum Kim. Francesca Lollobrigida tries to surprise on the last lap the opponents but must settle for fourth place, seventh place for Francesca Bettrone.
Francesca Lollobrigida and Francesca Bettrone with Noemi Bonazza get a flattering fourth place half a second from the podium. in the Sprint Team where the victory goes to Russia that precedes Japan and the Netherlands. The three blue girls also get the eighth place in the Team Pursuit won by the landlord ahead of the Netherlands and Russia. In the first test on the 500 meters Bonazza and Bettrone were classified respectively 15th and 18th in Division B. Francesca Lollobrigida is third in the Division B of the 1500 meters (tenth Noemi Bonazza) and eighth in the division A of 3000 meters. Twelfth and sixteenth place for Bonazza and Bettrone in the Division B of 1000 meters.
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