Italy ends the Junior World Championships with gold in the pursuit race

Today the races started over an hour late due to snowfall. And things really got down to business right away, as Hyun-Yung Kim set a new track record with 500 points in the women's 79,640 m run. The Korean beat the old record set by the Dutchwoman Lauren Van Riessen in 2005 (82.550) by almost three points. Today Hyun-Yung Kim won the second 500m race in 39.75 seconds, and two days ago she also won the first race in 39.89 seconds. This gave her an excellent total of 79.640 points. Vanessa Bittner from Innsbruck won silver, it was her second medal after yesterday's gold over 1000 m. "I'm of course very happy with this World Championships," says the 17-year-old, who won the 500 m World Cup in Klobenstein a week ago decided. “Today things went much better than on Friday. I feel at home here, the track is extremely fast, it was really great.” Bronze went to the Japanese Kako Jamane.

Korean Joong HongIm wins the 1000 m An athlete from Korea was also at the top of the podium in the men's 1000 m race: Joon Hong Im won in 1.11.37:29:1.11.67 minutes and missed the track record in Klobenstein by just 1.11.81 hundredths. Behind them, the two Dutchmen Kai Verbij (2) and Lennart Velema (3) took places 31 and 1.16.23. Alessio Trentini, the first “Azzurro” who started the race today, was 500st in XNUMX minutes. For Joon Hong Im it was the second World Championship medal, after silver in the XNUMX m sprint.

Gold for Italy in the team pursuit The title fights were then concluded with the two team pursuit races. In the women's category, the Japanese, with exceptional athlete Miho Takagi, won ahead of Korea. Japan completed the six laps on the Rittner Eisring in an excellent time of 3.12,97:3.16.12 minutes and was over three seconds faster than Korea (15:XNUMX:XNUMX). Bronze went to Holland, who won the small final against Russia. “It was an incredible World Cup for me,” said Miho Takagi, who took part in the Winter Olympics in Vancouver at the age of XNUMX. “Things couldn’t have gone better in these three days.”

However, it was the Italian team that made the news of the day. Andrea Giovannini, Andrea Stefani and Nicola Tumolero were crowned the new world champions in Team Pursuit. After finishing second in the qualification, they turned up the heat in the final and defeated the favored Koreans. 3.56.73:3.59.94:4.01.95 minutes was the Azzurri's finishing time, 4.08.92:XNUMX:XNUMX was that of the Asians. Japan took bronze in XNUMX:XNUMX:XNUMX minutes, ahead of Norway (XNUMX:XNUMX:XNUMX). “I am of course very proud of our performance,” said Andrea Giovannini, who returns to Baselga di Pinè with a complete set of medals.

The Rittner Eisring, the track of records Ritten can look back on a very successful Junior World Championships. 35 personal best performances, four track records and two outdoor world records are the result of these title fights. “Both the World Cup final last week and the World Cup had a huge impact. Now we have to continue working on this path and hopefully we will win important international championships again,” summarizes OK President Peter Treibenreif.

Results 3nd day of competition Junior World Championship Arena Ritten, February 23, 2013

500 m women (final ranking after two races) 1. Hyun –Yung Kim (KOR) 79.640 points 2. Vanessa Bittner (AUT) 80.100 3. Kako Yamane (JPN) 80.820 4. Xiaoxuan Shi (CHN) 81.210 5. Kaitlyn McGregor (SUI) 81.590 6. Yelizaveta Kazelina (RUS) 81.770 7. Sarah Warren (USA) 81.960 8. Doreen Lamb (GER) 82.030 9. Wen Tang (CHN) 82.050 10. Hae-Ri-Kwak (KOR) 82.160

500 m women (2st race) 1. Hyun-Yung Kim (KOR) 39.75 2. Vanessa Bittner (AUT) 39.95 3. Kako Yamane (JPN) 40.25 4. Kate Hanly (CAN) 40.80 Wen Tang (CHN) 40.80 6. Xiaoxuan Shi (CHN) 40.81 7. Hae-Ri-Kwak (KOR) 40.85 8. Moemi Sakurai (JPN) 40.86 9. Yelizaveta Kazelina (RUS) 40.88 10. Noèmie Fiset (CAN) 41.00

1000 m men 1. Joon-Hong-Im (KOR) 1.11.37/XNUMX/XNUMX 2. Kai Verbij (NED) 1.11.67 3. Lennart Velema (NED) 1.11.81 4. Junya Miwa (JPN) 1.11.86 5. Tsubasa Hasegawa (JPN) 1.12.60 6. Vladimir Pinhukov (RUS) 1.12.70 7. Vincent DeHa?tre (CAN) 1.12.71 8. Fan Yang (CHN) 1.12.73 9. Simen player Nilsen (1.13.21) 10. Yuto Fujino (JPN) 1.13.25 31. Alessio Trentini (ITA) 1.16.23

Team Pursuit Women 1. Japan 3.12, 97 2. Korea 3.16,12 3. Netherlands 3.14,22 4. Russia 3.21,14

Team Pursuit Men 1. Italy (Andrea Giovannini, Andrea Stefani, Nicola Tumolero) 3.56,73 2. Korea 3.59,73 3. Japan 4.01,95 4. Norway 4.08,32

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