Francesca Lollobrigida and Arianna Fontana (photo Lapresse)
Beijing 2022, Short track, Italy silver! Fontana, ninth Olympic medalist
It is the great Italy of ice in Beijing 2020. After the emotions of the long run with Francesca Lollobrigida’s silver on 3000 meters, on February 5th he brings another historic medal to Italy. The mixed relay of the short track and’silver to the Winter Olympic Games from Beijing 2022 with an amazing performance that brings the Azzurri to just 16 thousandths from China’s gold. The Italian team made up of is wonderful Arianna Fontana (IceLab), Martina Valcepina (Yellow Flames), Pietro Sighel (Yellow Flames) e Andrea Cassinelli (Fiamme Gialle) – the quartet that took to the track in Final A – with the invaluable contribution of Yuri Confortola (Carabinieri) e Arianna Valcepina (Fiamme Gialle) who qualified in the quarter-finals. At the Olympic debut of the specialty, the Azzurri immediately climbed to the podium behind only China and in front of Hungary, promoted to Olympic bronze after the penalization of Canada in Final A. With this silver Arianna Fontana becomes, at 9, the athlete with the most Olympic medals in the history of short track; third Olympic medal for Martina Valcepina and first ever for all the other members of the Italian team with Sighel, Cassinelli and Arianna Valcepina even at the debut. An enormous satisfaction for Federghiaccio, for the technical staff of the coaches Kenan Gouadec and Assen Pandov, and for the whole of Italy.
Beijing 2022, Lollobrigida medal: “Very proud, silver worth gold”
“It is not gold but it is as if it were. It is really a satisfaction after all the difficulties of the past years, in general for Italy but also for me. But these are all difficulties that have strengthened my character and the desire to compete “. So’ Francesca Lollobrigida (granddaughter of the great Italian actress Gina Lollobrigida) to the microphones of Rai after the medal In the skating 3000 meters at Beijing 2022 Olympics. “It is really time to smile – she continued -. I can only be proud of myself. I dedicate the medal to my husband, my family and those who supported me. I also hope to be an example of the road to be faced for get certain results “.
Beijing 2022: Lollobrigida silver 3000 meters, historical medal
There silver medal conquered by Francesca Lollobrigida in the 3000 meters on the first day of Beijing Winter Olympic Games It is historic: never before has female Italian speed skating conquered an Olympic podium. In 1994 in Lillehammer, Elena Belci was fourth in the 5000 meters.
Who is Francesca Lollobrigida, silver medalist at the 2022 Olympics
Only one Olympic cycle went by to see a blue on the podium of the team Games in speed skating. This time, and it is the first for the Italian women’s sector, thanks to Francesca Lollobrigida, a girl from Frascati, born far from the only two frozen rings in Italy, Baselga di Pine ‘and Collalbo in the mountains of Trentino Alto Adige. Francesca Lollobrigida, great-granddaughter of actress Gina, won a wonderful and historic silver medal in the 3000 meters of speed skating. The Italian on the ice of ‘National Speed Skating Oval‘ from Beijing she was the author of a superlative performance, carried out in a perfect way under the technical-tactical aspect thanks to a sublime skating built over the years together with her two coaches, father Maurizio and federal coach Maurizio Marchetto. Francesca, 30 years old, an Air Force athlete, was in command up to two kilometers but nothing could against the increase in pace of the very strong Dutch Irene Schouten who with 3.56.93 also established the new Olympic record improving the 3.57 , 70 which since 10 February 2002 belonged to the German Claudia Pechstein, today the twentieth and last at the age of 49 with a time of 4.17.16. The ‘Lollo’ stopped the chrono at 3.58.06. Bronze to Canadian Isabelle Weidemann (3.58.64). In the past, Italy for women had never won a five-circle medal on the long track. The best result had been the fourth place of Elena Belci in the 5000 meters at Lillehammer Games 1994: it was another skating because the skates were not yet ‘clap’, that is, with the release of the heel only arrived at the end of the 90s. Belci lost the bronze by just 65 cents in the race that was won by Pechstein. Francesca Lollobrigida she grew up in Rome and as a child she used to go roller-skating behind cars on the streets of the Tiburtina area. It was the dad Maurizio, professional skater also he and his coach, to make her wear the first skates at just 14 months. On rollers, he won 15 world titles between 2012 and 2019, until the definitive transition to speed skating at the age of 17. In the first years as an ice skater, after 2008, she was divided between Rome and Baselga di Pine ‘, in the province of Trento, while in recent times she too trained in Holland, the home of ice skating, for about six months a year.
Sofia Goggia at the Beijing 2022 Olympics. Mornati: “She arrives, first success to see her on the track”
“Sofia Goggia she should be here on the 8th, so we look forward to her, above all we are happy to see her here after the scare we took. Her first success will be seeing her on the track, it will be her greatest satisfaction, especially for her. ” Head of Mission And General Secretary of Coni, Carlo Mornatito Italy house in Yanqing. The Bergamo champion will therefore be on track to defend the gold medal won in Free Descent at Olympic Games of 2018 and should also play his chances in the Super-G which he will see in contention for the victory too Federica Brignone (leader in the World Cup ranking in the specialty) ed Elena Curtoni (second in the ranking).
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