The Olympian, beaten by the Dutch Schulting, hits the third podium in as many distance Cup races and consolidates her leadership in the specialty ranking
Still her, always her: Arianna Fontana is again on the podium of the 500 of the short track World Cup. After the second place in Beijing and the success of Nagoya at the end of October, here is another pearl, here is another second place. The 31-year-old from Valtellina scores on the Hungarian ice of Debrecen, preceded by the Dutch Susanne Schulting by 235/1000 of a second (42 “566 against 42” 801), world champion in all individual distances which, in the day, already the had preceded in the semifinals and in the quarters and that previously, a couple of hours earlier, had also won in the 1500s (2’23 “009), with the blue fourth (2’23” 357) after the South Korean Yubin Lee and Canadian Courtney Serault. The third place, in the 500, went to the other Canadian Kim Boutin, world record holder in office.
Leader
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Arianna thus, with only one test remaining on the circuit (that of next weekend in the Dutch Dordrecht), consolidates her leadership at the top of the specialty classification: with 26,000 points she surpasses the Polish Natalia Maliszewska (21,277), yesterday sixth and the same Schulting (14,096). “Suzanne – said Ms. Lobello, eight times Olympic medalist – worked hard to improve in the 500, a distance that was not hers. But that’s okay: the more competition there is, the more fun there is for us and for those who watch us ”. The rivalry, two and a half months from the start of the Beijing Olympics, becomes incandescent.
Other races
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For the National team led by Assen Pandov and Frederick Blackburn, with Cynthia Mascitto twelfth in the 1500s and Pietro Sighel thirteenth in the 500s, excluded from the semifinal for 7/1000, little else to celebrate in the first Hungarian day reserved for the finals. The men’s relay run by Andrea Cassinelli, Tommaso Dotti, Yuri Confortola and Sighel himself qualified for the final A on Sunday with Russia, Hungary, South Korea and Canada, while the women’s one (Arianna and Martina Valcepina, Fontana, Mascitto) was was disqualified in the semifinal, from where the mixed will restart. Then the 1000: the same Fontana and Mascitto are in contention from the quarters.
November 20 – 11:03 pm
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