MILANO (ITALPRESS) – Tripudio all azure at the Forum of Assago, where Italy conquered the gold medal of the mixed relay of the short track and its tenth medal (second of gold) in the Olympic Games of Milan-Cortina 2026. Elisa Confortola, Arianna Fontana, Thomas Nadalini and Pietro Sighel climb China with a huge manoeuvre in the second half of the race, run away and make themselves unpretentious, dominating the test with two tenths on the first chaser. The gold is of Italy with the time of 2.39.019, silver to Canada and bronze to Belgium. The Dutch Olympic record (2.35.537) in the final B is not valid for medals. Thus, 12 Olympic medals for Arianna Fontana, more and more in history, go up. For Italy is the tenth in this edition, the second in gold.
FONTANA E SIGHEL AVANZANO AI QUARTI DI FINALE
The Olympics of Arianna Fontana begin with the right foot. The blue closes its 500-metre battery in second position and gets the minimum result to conquer the quarterfinals, giving the impression of still having a margin of growth. Fontana gets the time of 42,668, closing behind Michelle Velzeboer (42.598), the same result for Chiara Betti in the first battery: it is second behind the Dutch Xandra Velzeboer (42.417) with the time of 43.163. There will be two Italians in the quarterfinals scheduled on Wednesday, while Arianna Sighel is extremely unlucky: just as he was taking second place, he is overwhelmed by a rival and involved in a fall. The time of 53,960, influenced by the accident and by the stationary restart, is not enough to enter the four repeated through the third place.
Hat-trick to the male, since they qualify all the blues present at the quarterfinals of the 1,000 meters. There was great expectation for the debut of Pietro Sighel, then engaged in a mixed bracket of medal, and the latter did not disappoint: battery in control, overtaking on the rivals in half race and first place in the time of 1.25.740, also pulling the brake in the final meters. Convincing victory and great performance also for Luca Spechenhauser, who dominates and wins his series with the time of 1.25.422, also advances Thomas Nadalini. The latter surpasses in extremis the Japanese Miyata and closes second, with the time of 1,26.882. It will therefore be three, the blues in the quarterfinals scheduled on Wednesday, in practice the entire quota available.
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