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At Tomakomai, the Roman figure skater is third in the 3000 and climbs on the second step of the podium in the Mass Start and, with Francesca Bettrone and Noemi Bonazza, in the Sprint Team.
Sunday 25 November 2018 6 minutes reading time
The new four-year Olympic Speed ​​Skating on a long track is colored blue from the first races. If last week, in the first stage of the World Cup, Italian had been spoken to the men with the victory of Andrea Giovannini in Mass Start, Tomakomai is Francesca Lollobrigida to win the role of blue star. On Saturday he took second place in the Mass Start after a race in which he controlled the situation and gave only the sprint to the Korean Bo-Reum Kim, third place for the Canadian Ivanie Blondin while Francesca Bettrone closed in sixteenth place. After having obtained the fifth position in the 1500s, Francesca Lollobrigida has returned to the ice this morning winning for the first time in her career a podium in the World Cup in a race against time with the third place in the 3000 meters won by the Canadian Isabelle Weidemann, at the first career victory, in front of the Czech Martina Sablikova. The great weekend ended with the second place of the team formed by the same Lollobrigida, Francesca Bettrone and Noemi Bonazza in the Sprint Team won by the Netherlands, third place for Canada.
In the other races of the women's program, the Japanese Nao Kodaira extends the series of consecutive victories to 19 in 500 meters taking the first place in both tests provided by the program where, as in Obihiro, the Austrian Vanessa Herzog is a perennial second champion European Single Distance, and the two Bronze medals go to the US Brittany Bowe and the Russian Daria Kachanova. Kodaira is also imposed in the 1000 meters where the second place is Brittany Bowe and on the third step of the podium salt Vanessa Herzog. In the 1500 meters comes the twenty-second World Cup victory over the distance for the Dutch Ireen Wust that precedes Miho Takagi, dominator last season, and the winner of the first stage Brittany Bowe. The Japanese confirm the victory in Team Pursuit, according to Canada, third in Russia, fifth place for the blue.
The twenty-two year old Japanese Tatsuya Shinhama, after having made his debut in the maximum circuit with a third place in Obihiro, is imposed twice in the 500 meters where compatriot Yuha Murakami gets a second and a third. Podi completed by the Dutch Jan Smeekens, third in the race on Friday, and the Russian Viktor Mushtakov, according to Saturday. The Netherlands took all the podium positions in the 1000 and 1500 meters where he makes double Kjeld Nuis while collecting two Bronzes Thomas Krol. In the shortest distance the world champion Sprint of 2017 Kai Verbij wins second place while in the 1500 meters the Silver goes to the Allround world champion Patrick Roest.
In the 5000 meters the Belgian Bart Swings, who took to the track at the beginning of the session, takes advantage of the worsening of the track conditions with the advance of the race and is surprisingly ahead of the Norwegian Sverre Lunde Pedersen and Patrick Roest; Andrea Giovannini is sixth, who did not qualify for the Mass Start final where he had won over Obihiro. At Tomakomai, the on-line test favors the "bumblebee" of the Belarusian Vitaly Mikhailov who, with his compatriot Aleksei Kirpichnik, manages to keep the advantage on the group up to the finish line for his first career win; the Korean Cheonho Um wins the sprint and conquers the second step of the podium in front of Bart Swings.
In the Team Pursuit the victory goes to the Holland that beats Norway and Japan. Losing a position compared to Obihiro the Italian team composed of Andrea Giovannini, Michele Malfatti and Alessio Trentini who finished in seventh place. Russia wins the Sprint Team ahead of the Netherlands and Canada.
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