Italian Speed Skaters - Enrico Fabris, Ottavio Cinquanta, Roberto Sighel, Luca Stefani, Matteo Anesi, Ippolito Sanfratello, Maurizio Marchetto (Paperback)

Chapters: Enrico Fabris, Ottavio Cinquanta, Roberto Sighel, Luca Stefani, Matteo Anesi, Ippolito Sanfratello, Maurizio Marchetto, Guido Caroli, Chiara Simionato, Stefano Donagrandi. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 30. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Enrico Fabris at a 2006 World Cup in Thialf (Heerenveen, The Netherlands) Enrico Fabris (born October 5, 1981, Asiago, province of Vicenza) is an Italian long track speed skater who has won three World Cup races and became the first European Allround Champion from Italy when he won the 2006 European Championships one month before the Winter Olympics in Turin. In 2007 he won also the silver medal an in 2008 the bronze medal. Fabris is also a six-time Italian Allround Champion. At the 2006 Olympics he won a bronze medal in the men's 5,000 m event, Italy's first ever Olympic medal in speed skating. Five days later, he was in the winning team on the team pursuit event, to claim Italy's first Olympic speed skating gold. With a time of one minute, 45.97 seconds in the 1,500 m race, Fabris claimed his third medal and defeated American favourites Shani Davis and Chad Hedrick to become the first non-American to win an individual men's event through the first four races of the Turin Winter Games. On November 10th, 2007, he took the 5,000 meter world record with 6.07.40, which he lost one week later, when Sven Kramer skated faster in Calgary. ...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=374343