Enrico Fabris

1000 meters - 1:09,16 min 1500 meters - 1:43,67 min 3000 meters - 3:40,23 min 5000 meters - 6:06,42 min 10,000 meters - 13:10,60 min

Enrico Fabris ( born October 5, 1981 in Asiago ) is an Italian former speed skater and two-time Olympic champion.

Particularly on long-haul celebrated Fabris in his ongoing since 2000 international career success. The largest of these was the winning two Olympic gold medals at the 2006 Winter Olympics, both over 1500 meters and as a team. He also reached eight World Cup victories and won the 2006 European title. These further medals come at World Championships. On November 10, 2007 he set a world record in the 5,000 meters, he also holds on almost all routes (except for the sprint distances ) the national records.

Career

Initial success (2000-2005)

Initially denied Fabris junior race at the international level, such as the Viking Race 1998 in the age group 12-17. In December 2000 he participated in the Italian Allround Championship, in whether the minor importance of the Italian men's speed skating, however, a total of only five athletes were at the start. Behind Roberto Sighel he finished second here. In 2001, he was able to achieve in the round world championship of juniors at least the twelfth grade, after he had already participated unsuccessfully in two World Junior Championships. Even in the World Cup, the Italian had already come to a short stint in the 2000 /01 season, this was, however, no points for him. In the World Cup 2001/ 02 he regularly get good results in the B group, the leap into the A- class, he did not even make it. Overall, he reached in 5000/10.000-Meter-Weltcup but already the 29th place among 44 participants. This season also he placed as 16th in the Big Four battle at the European Championships in 2002. Too at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, he went to the start and was as Sixteenth over 5000 meter race at the best U23 athlete.

In the World Cup 2002/ 03 Fabris got his first start in the A group and confirmed his good performance especially at the season finale in Heerenveen, when he finished ninth over 5000 meters. To this end, he drove in the B group even twice on the podium. In his first -round World Cup, the Italian placed on the 15th position after he was disqualified in the 10,000 meters. Also in fifteenth he binned over that distance in the Single Distances World Cup 2003, moved to ninth over 5000 meters. Since 2003 until today Fabris won have regularly taken the title of Italian champion in the Big Four battle. In the 2003 /04 season he scored his first top - three result in the A group, a third rank over 1500 meters in Inzell. In the overall World Cup over this distance he placed on the fifth rank in 5000/10.000-Meter-Weltcup on the sixth. The culmination of this successful season, a medal at the World Championship round in 2004, he narrowly missed out in fourth, he also finished fifth over 5000 meters at the single distance world championship of the year.

The latest from the 2004/05 season was one Fabris to the international top athletes on the long distances. In November 2004, he celebrated his first World Cup success in Berlin about 1500 meters, this came many more results in the top five. In the 1500 -meter World Cup he defended his fifth place in the World Cup discipline of the longest stretches he slipped a few ranks to eighth place from. In the all-around World Cup 2005 he is not classified in the Single Distance World Championships him surprisingly succeeded the silver medal with the team and a fourth place over 5000 meters.

Olympic champion and world-class (2005-2009)

The 2005/06 season was very successful for Fabris, although it did not look at the beginning of the 2005/06 season after that. In the first competitions of the Italians came in the form and often missed the top 10. An exception was the formation of the Italian state cup record over 3,000 meters in Calgary, which is still valid today. It was not until December, he came to the podium again and at the dress rehearsal for the Olympic Games in Turin, he celebrated two World Cup victories, over 1500 meters and with the team. In January 2006, he was in Hamar was the first Italian ever European champions. So the hopes of the Italians were on him when he traveled to the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin. There he convinced right at the first Eisschnelllaufwettkmapf of games ever, the 5000 - meter race, where he won the bronze medal victory bim Chad Hedrick's what the first Olympic speed skating medal for Italy meant at all. Five days later, on 16 February, the Italian squadron won the gold medal, after they had beaten the United States Olympic record, the Netherlands and Canada. On 21 February, he also won the 1500 - meter race, by which he was known nationally in one fell swoop. Previously, as Fabris to the Washington Post, he would have been unknown even after winning the European Championship in Italy. The last race, he also denied the 10,000 -meter track where he was in eighth however. After Olympics, he won a medal for the first time, here silver in the all-around world championship and placed himself in third place in the 1500 -meter World Cup. In 5000/10.000-Meter-Weltcup improving his top result on a fifth.

In winter 2006/ 07 Fabris get four more World Cup victories, three over 1500, a 10,000 meters. He was only beaten by heirs Wennemars as second in the 1500 -meter World Cup and also third in the Long Distance Cup. The European title he could not defend nearly as second, but he again won the silver medal and in the all-around World Cup 2007. Also, he won silver in the individual sections Cup over 5000 meters. The season 2007/ 08 was for Fabris with a World Cup victory not quite as successful as the previous one, but he defended his third in 5000/10.000-Meter-Weltcup. In addition to the bronze medal in the all around competition European Championships 2008, he won three silver medals at the World Championships Single Distances over 5000 and 10,000 meters as well as in a team. The all-round World Cup, he finished seventh time. By January 2009, Fabris in the 2008 /09 season did not manage another World Cup success, even at the European Championships he classified not according to disqualification.

On 21 November 2011, the FISG announced that Fabris have ended his career after he was over 1,500 meters only become Last at the World Cup in Chelyabinsk and will not be taken up to five- kilometer race.

Essent ISU World Cup rankings

The table shows the achieved placement in speed skating World Cup.

  • Place 1st-3rd. Number of podiums
  • Top 10: Number of placings in the top ten
Winter Olympic Games ISU Speed Skating World Cup 2003 World Allround Speed Skating Championships 2003 World Single Distance Speed Skating Championships 2004 World Allround Speed Skating Championships 2004 World Single Distance Speed Skating Championships 2005 World Single Distance Speed Skating Championships 2006 World Allround Speed Skating Championships 2006–07 ISU Speed Skating World Cup Erben Wennemars 2007 World Allround Speed Skating Championships 2007–08 ISU Speed Skating World Cup 2008 European Allround Speed Skating Championships 2008 World Single Distance Speed Skating Championships 2008–09 ISU Speed Skating World Cup De Telegraaf List of Olympic medalists in speed skating Jack Shea Charles Mathiesen Hjalmar Andersen Yuri Mikhaylov Roald Aas Ants Antson Johann Olav Koss Derek Parra Mark Tuitert Matteo Anesi Ippolito Sanfratello Denny Morrison
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