European Championships: second day of competition on the track of Almere (Netherlands)

European Championships: second day of competition on the track of Almere (Netherlands)

500m Junior Ladies

Sandrine Tas (BEL, 44,915) was the fastest in the final of the 500m junior ladies. She beat Alisa Gutermuth (GER, 44,957) and Anais Laurent (FRA, 46,261). Carlotta Simbula (ITA, 45,900) took the fourth place.

500m Junior Men

Once more, Simon Albrecht (GER, 42,102) war far above his opponents in this final. The German skater got the first place in front of the opportunistic Stefano Gili (ITA, 42,423) and Alexandre Guyomard (FRA, 42,427). Only five thousandths difference between the two skaters!
Mathias Voste (BEL, 42,472) stays off to the podium.

500m Senior Ladies

Same competitors and same results as the first day: Laethisia Schimek (GER, 44,295) beat Erika Zanetti (ITA, 44,338) and Jana Gegner (GER, 44,477) once again. Sabine Berg (GER, 44,539) missed the podium. Three German skaters in top 4!

500m Senior Men

Everybody was waiting for the performance of the Dutch World Champion Michel Mulder and he has not disappointed his audience… but the fate was with him! In the final, Michel Mulder crossed the white line, synonymous with disqualification, but the judges did not sanctioned him as they did for Gwendal Lepivert (FRA) in the semi-final. The second place is Nicolas Pelloquin (FRA, 40,969) thanks to a nice hawk finish against Andrea Angeletti (ITA, 41,014). Mark Horsten (NED, 41,020) is fourth.

Point/Elimination Race – Junior Ladies

After her victory in the elimination race, the French Déborah Marchand was favorite for the point/elimination race. Well supported by her teammates Anaïs Laurent and Marie Poidevin, Déborah Marchand grabbed 21 points during the race. The second place belongs to Annemarie Boer (NED) with « only » 7 points… far from the winner ! Giulia Lollobrigida (ITA) completes the podium with 4 points.

Point/Elimination Race – Junior Men

The race was more balanced in the Junior Men category with active nations such as Italy, Germany and the Netherlands. The italian skaters collected most of the points. Stefano Mareschi (ITA) took the first place with 9 points after a long escape. Thimo Kiesslich (GER, 6 points) is second and Alessio Paciolla (ITA, 6 points) is third. The local skater Jordy Harink (NED, 5 points) missed the podium for one point.

Point/Elimination Race – Senior Ladies

We assisted to an unexpected scenario in the senior ladies point/elimination race. Everbody was waiting for the local star Manon Kamminga (NED) but she fell during the race, while she was getting points in a nice hawk finish against a German skater.
The Dutch public can count on a strong team composed with Elma De Vries, Irene Schouten and Manon Kamminga. Elma got the first points, followed by Irene… but Irene was really strong and escaped from the podium. So Manon decided to temporize… then she fell and lost her chances. The French skater Justine Halbout (FRA) took some points before the end of the race.
The final sprint is launched, Mareike Thum collected the last points, but not enough. Irene Schouten (NED, 8 points) gets the continental title ahead of Mareike Thum (GER, 3 points) and Justine Halbout (FRA, 3 points). Elma de Vries (NED, 3 points) stays off to the podium.

Point/Elimination Race – Senior Men

Place	Pays					Total
1		ITA	4	5	5	14
2		GER	4	5	3	12
3		NED	3	1	2	6
4		FRA	2	4	4	10
5		ESP	2	0	1	3
6		BEL	1	1	1	3

Men’s race was awesome with suspens from the beginning to the end! Fabio Francolini was the favorite but the surprise came from Spain. The German skater Felix Rihjnen did also an impressive race, collecting 13 points. He escaped with his Powerslide’s teammate Livio Wenger (SUI). Fabio Francolini (ITA) and Ariens Crispijn (NED) did their best to close the gap but Paxti Peula (Spain) did a clever race. He collected a few points at the beginning of the race and escaped in the last laps when the pack was exhausted by continuous sprints.
Patxi Peula (ESP, 13 points) is victorious in front Felix Rijhnen (GER, 13 points) and Ariens Crispijn (NED, 10 points). Fabio Francolini (ITA, 10 points) took the worst place.

Medals ranking

In the overall medal ranking, Italy consolidated his lead with no less than four gold medals. Germany did a good harvest with as much gold and silver as Italy and only two bronze medals less. The Netherlands harvested only six medals at home so far, but three are the most precious metal. France is not far from the leading group with a total of 10 medals but only 2 gold medals. These four nations have taken a wide lead in the overall ranking.
Germany owes its rise to its women team who collected twice more medals than men. France can thank Anais Laurent for her performance (two gold medals). The Italian train is driven by men.

Main results

Senior women – 500 m Sprint tournament

Pos.	Firstname	Lastname	Nation		Time
1	Laethisia	Schimek		GER	44,295
2	Erika	Zanetti		ITA	44,338
3	Jana	Gegner		GER	44,477
4	Sabine	Berg		GER	44,539
5	Manon	Kamminga		NED	44,514(HF)
6	Desire	Contenti		ITA	44,981(HF)
7	Saray	Narvaez		ESP	45,393(HF)
8	Andrea	Trafeli		ITA	45,007(H)
9	Hanne	Wouters		BEL	45,647(H)
10	Marta	Nunes		POR	45,699(H)
11	Lisanne	Buurman		NED	46,346(H)
12	Bianca	Roosenboom		NED	45,205(H)
13	Clemence	Halbout		FRA	45,712(H)
14	Helena	Gustafsson		SWE	46,031(H)
15	Renata	Karabova		SVK	47,330(H)
16	Aleksandra	Goss		POL	47,180(H)
17	Sheila	Posada		ESP

Senior men – 500 m Sprint tournament

Pos.	Firstname	Lastname	Nation		Time
1	Michel	Mulder		NED	40,827
2	Nicolas	Pelloquin		FRA	40,969
3	Andrea	Angeletti		ITA	41,014
4	Mark	Horsten		NED	41,020
5	Darren	de Souza		FRA	46,699(HF)
6	Jore	Van den Berghe		BEL	DNF(HF)
7	Etienne	Ramali		GER	41,515(QF)
8	Ronald	Mulder		NED	41,873(QF)
9	Ioseba	Fernandez		ESP	41,976(QF)
10	Roman	Christen		SUI	42,960(QF)
11	Yves	Reist		SUI	42,176(QF)
12	Mat?j	Pravda		CZH	42,229(QF)
13	Marcio	Costa		POR	42,991(QF)
14	Jakob	Ulreich		AUT	DNF(QF)
15	Diogo	Marreiros		POR	41,850(H)
16	Ricardo	Esteves		POR	42,477(H)
17	Tobias	Hecht		GER	42,494(H)
18	Giacomo	Cuncu		ITA	42,559(H)
19	Tormod Bjornetun	Haugen		NOR	43,641(H)
20	Tristan	Ulreich		AUT	43,663(H)

Junior A women – 500 m Sprint tournament 

Pos.	Firstname	Lastname	Nation		Time
1	Sandrine	Tas		BEL	44,915
2	Alisa	Gutermuth		GER	44,957
3	Anais	Laurent		FRA	46,261
4	Carlotta	Simbula		ITA	45,900(HF)
5	Carolin	Zielke		GER	46,073(HF)
6	Gloria	Pereira		POR	46,435(HF)
7	Nerea	Nuno		ESP	46,952(H)
8	Dina	Rodriquez		POR	47,189(H)
9	Andreia	Canha		POR	47,938(H)
10	Melissa	de Boer		NED	48,462(H)
11	Enza	Floriddia		ITA	47,145(H)
12	Ysia	Clausses		FRA	48,007(H)
13	Reka	Torok		HUN	50,116(H)
14	Martina	Karabova		SVK	52,028(H)
15	Lena	Labat		FRA	49,063(H)
16	Klára	Prokopová		CZH	50,208(H)
17	Daria	Tiberto		ITA
17	Iris	Fernandez		ESP

Junior A men – 500 m Sprint tournament

Pos.	Firstname	Lastname	Nation		Time
1	Simon	Albrecht		GER	42,102
2	Stefano	Gili		ITA	42,423
3	Alexandre	Guyomard		FRA	42,427
4	Mathias	Voste		BEL	42,472
5	Thimo	Kiesslich		GER	43,283(HF)
6	Tim	Gegner		GER	44,068(HF)
7	Raphael	Planelles		FRA	44,697(HF)
8	Alberto	Putignano		ITA	DNF(HF)
9	Yassine	Baroudi		FRA	42,172(H)
10	Iker	Garcia		ESP	42,808(H)
11	Daniel	Villaverde		ESP	43,034(H)
12	Remon	Kwant		NED	43,444(H)
13	Kay	Schipper		NED	42,972(H)
14	Viktor Hald	Thorup		DEN	43,068(H)
15	Rick	Schipper		NED	43,291(H)
16	Jesus	Oliveira		POR	45,209(H)
17	Mikel	Hernandez		ESP	43,215(H)
18	Cristian	Sartorato		ITA	43,746(H)
19	Lukáš	Vevera		CZH	46,400(H)
20	Michal	Slotta		SVK	48,093(H)

Senior women – 10000 m Point/elimination

Pos.	Firstname	Lastname	Nation		Point
1	Irene	Schouten		NED	8
2	Mareike	Thum		GER	3
3	Justine	Halbout		FRA	3
4	Elma	de Vries		NED	3
5	Federica	Di Natale		ITA	2
6	Sabine	Berg		GER	1
7	Sofia	D’Annibale		ITA	1
8	Aleksandra	Goss		POL
9	Juliette	Pouydebat		FRA
10	Nadja	Wenger		SUI
11	Renata	Karabova		SVK
12	Martina	Paciolla		ITA
13	Manon	Kamminga		NED
14	Katharina	Rumpus		GER
15	Flurina	Heim		SUI
16	Rina	von Burg		SUI

Senior men – 10000 m Point/elimination

Pos.	Firstname	Lastname	Nation		Point
1	Patxi	Peula		ESP	13
2	Felix	Rijhnen		GER	13
3	Crispijn	Ariens		NED	10
4	Fabio	Francolini		ITA	10
5	Jan	Blokhuijsen		NED	5
6	Ruurd	Dijkstra		NED	4
7	Nolan	Beddiaf		FRA	1
8	Giovanni	Conte		ITA	1
9	Tim	Sibiet		BEL
10	Maarten	Swings		BEL
11	Elton	de Souza		FRA
12	Martyn	Dias		POR
13	Wannes	van Praet		BEL
14	Inigo	Vidondo		ESP
15	Guillaume	de Mallevoue		FRA
16	Diogo	Marreiros		POR
17	Livio	Wenger		SUI
18	Jakob	Ulreich		AUT
19	Antonio	Cucco		ITA
20	Victor	Wilking		GER

Junior A women – 10000 m Point/elimination

Pos.	Firstname	Lastname	Nation		Point
1	Deborah	Marchand		FRA	21
2	Annemarie	Boer		NED	7
3	Giulia	Lollobrigida		ITA	4
4	Izaskun	Barba		ESP	2
5	Tamara	Felbinger		GER	1
6	Dina	Rodriquez		POR	1
7	Lisa	van der Geest		NED	1
8	Laura	Brandolini		ITA
9	Kelly	Schouten		NED
10	Marie	Poidevin		FRA
11	Nerea	Nuno		ESP
12	Anais	Laurent		FRA
13	Enza	Floriddia		ITA
14	Andreia	Canha		POR
15	Klára	Prokopová		CZH
16	Sandrine	Tas		BEL
17	Gloria	Pereira		POR
18	Amaia	Faber		ESP
19	Reka	Torok		HUN
20	Martina	Karabova		SVK

Junior A men – 10000 m Point/elimination

Pos.	Firstname	Lastname	Nation		Point
1	Stefano	Mareschi		ITA	9
2	Thimo	Kiesslich		GER	6
3	Alessio	Paciolla		ITA	6
4	Jordy	Harink		NED	5
5	Clement	Chaduc		FRA	3
6	Stefan Due	Schmidt		DEN	1
7	Giuseppe	Cistola		ITA
8	Tim	Gegner		GER
9	Nikolaj	Helmsoe		DEN
10	Iker	Garcia		ESP
11	Philipp	Forstner		GER
12	Yassine	Baroudi		FRA
13	Yoram	van der Vlugt		NED
14	Nicolas	Sanchez		FRA
15	Viktor Hald	Thorup		DEN
16	Mikel	Hernandez		ESP
17	Daniel	Villaverde		ESP
18	Lukáš	Vevera		CZH
19	Jesus	Oliveira		POR
20	Michal	Slotta		SVK
21	Gerco	van Beek		NED

Links

Results of the second day of competition

European Championships of speed-skating in Netherlands – day 1

Video: European Championships 2013 in Almere (Netherlands) – Elimination Senior Men

By Alfathor
Photos: Nathalie Planelles