Short-track: Chinese success, bronze for Italy
The Italian athlete Roberto Serra ranks 3rd. Chinese got gold and silver medal in both men and women competition. Bronze medal goes to Austria in the female competition.
Courmayeur march 23, 2010 another medal for Italy thanks to our representative Roberto Serra a military athlete (living in Courmayeur) of our Sport Club, in the 500 meters of Short Track.
“It is an honour for me to race for the Military Sport Club gaining a bronze in this first edition of the Winter Military World Games” declared Roberto Sella, ”obviously I wanted to win but it was a hard race. Too bad for the contact with the Chinese athlete, I could have hoped for a second place but it is fine, and besides 500 meters is not my discipline, I hope I will do better with the 1500 meters tomorrow.
Only 8th place instead for Katia Zini, gold medal in Turin 2006. Arianna Fontana 3rd place in Vancouver 2010, was not able to race for a neck’s injury.
1st and 2nd place both for male and female competition go to the Chinese athletes, gold medal male and female respectively for Xin Nie Shuai Ma, silver medal male and female respectively for Liang Cui Huizhu Sun. 3rd place for the Austrian athlete Veronica Windisch