Arianna Fontana

Arianna Fontana
nation	Italy
birthday	April 14, 1990
place of birth	Sondrio
size	161 cm
Weight	55 kg
Career
society	Bormio Ghiaccio
National squad	since 2005
status	active
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × 2 × 5 × World Cup medals 1 × 6 × 7 × JWM medals 0 × 2 × 1 × EM medals 8 × 7 × 3 ×
winter Olympics bronze Turin 2006 3000 m relay bronze Vancouver 2010 500 m silver Sochi 2014 500 m bronze Sochi 2014 1500 m bronze Sochi 2014 3000 m relay gold Pyeongchang 2018 500 m silver Pyeongchang 2018 3000 m relay bronze Pyeongchang 2018 1000 m  Short track world championships bronze Minneapolis 2006 3000 m relay silver Milan 2007 500 m silver Sheffield 2011 500 m silver Sheffield 2011 1000 m bronze Sheffield 2011 total silver Shanghai 2012 500 m silver Shanghai 2012 3000 m bronze Shanghai 2012 total bronze Montreal 2014 3000 m relay gold Moscow 2015 1500 m bronze Moscow 2015 500 m bronze Moscow 2015 1000 m bronze Moscow 2015 3000 m relay  Short track junior world championships silver Miercurea Ciuc 2006 500 m silver Bolzano 2008 2000 m relay bronze Bolzano 2008 1500 m gold Sherbrooke 2009 3000 m relay silver Sherbrooke 2009 500 m  European Short Track Championships gold Krynica-Zdrój 2006 3000 m relay silver Krynica-Zdrój 2006 All-around silver Sheffield 2007 3000 m relay gold Ventspils 2008 All-around gold Turin 2009 All-around silver Dresden 2010 All-around gold Heerenveen 2011 All-around bronze Heerenveen 2011 3000 m relay gold Mladá Boleslav 2012 All-around silver Mladá Boleslav 2012 3000 m relay gold Malmo 2013 All-around bronze Dresden 2014 All-around gold Turin 2017 All-around gold Turin 2017 3000 m relay silver 2020 Debrecen 3000 m relay silver 2020 Debrecen All-around silver 2020 Debrecen 1500 m bronze 2020 Debrecen 1000 m
Placements in the Short Track World Cup
Debut in the World Cup September 30, 2005  World Cup victories 16 (including 11 individual wins)  500 m world cup 1st ( 2011/12 )  1000 m world cup 3rd ( 2013/14 )  1500 m world cup 4. ( 2014/15 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  500 meters 6th 14th 5  1000 meters 2 1 1  1500 meters 3 1 2  Relay / team 5 9 12
last change: February 2, 2020

Arianna Fontana (born April 14, 1990 in Sondrio ) is an Italian short tracker .

Career

Fontana began her international career at the Junior World Championships in 2005 at the age of 14. There she did not reach the final in any race, but was nominated for the first time for the Short Track World Cup in October 2005 . Even if she never made it into an individual final in the 2005/06 season, she got good results with the Italian relay, once she was third on the podium.

The year 2006 began for Fontana with three major events. First she won a silver medal at the Junior World Championships, then she triumphed with the relay at the European Championships . There she was also able to secure two silver medals on the 500 m and 3000 m distance, she also won bronze over 1500 meters and was second in the all-round competition behind Evgeniya Radanova . Because of her good performance, Fontana was able to qualify for the Olympic Games in Turin , where she was the youngest Italian athlete to win a medal at these games. She achieved this together with Marta Capurso , Katia Zini , Mara Zini and Cecilia Maffei, who was not used, in the 3,000 m relay . Fontana also did well on the other routes, including sixth over 1000 meters. Because of the bronze medal, she was also awarded the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic .

After the Olympics, 2006 went well for Fontana, winning several medals with the team at the Team World Championship and winning bronze in the relay at the 2006 Short Track World Championship . Also in the winter of 2006/2007 it got off to a promising start with many good results. In fact, she managed to finish second overall in the 500 m World Cup, although she only finished third in her best race on this track. Fontana's results changed at the major events. While she was eleventh overall at the Junior World Championships and did not reach the final in any discipline, she won the silver medal over 500 meters at the 2007 Senior World Championships in Milan and was fifth overall. She also won the relay at the European Championships and won bronze over 1500 meters.

In the Short Track World Cup 2007/08 Fontana missed the first three places in all individual races, but she did not start in all races. At the Junior World Championship in 2008 she won silver in the relay and bronze in the super final over 1500 meters. In addition, she celebrated overall victory in the all-round competition at the European Championships , where she also won the 1,500 m and 3,000 m distance. At the World Cup, however, she missed the medal ranks.

In 2009 Fontana won the silver medal at the Junior World Championships in Sherbrooke over 500 m and was even able to win the 3000 m relay with her teammates. At the European Championships in Turin that same season, she took first place in the overall standings. She secured this with victories over 500 m and 1000 m as well as winning the bronze medal over 1500 m. At the World Championships , however, she received nothing.

At the 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver , she won the bronze medal in the 500 m competition. She finished the European Championships in Dresden with second place in the overall ranking. She won the individual races over 500 m and 1500 m and took third place over 3000 m.

At the 2011 World Championships in Sheffield Fontana was able to win silver in the 500 m and 1000 m and thus secure the bronze medal in the overall standings. The European Championships in Heerenveen in the same year she won four gold medals (1000 m, 1500 m, 3000 m, overall standings). She was able to finish the 2012 World Championships in Shanghai with a bronze medal in the overall standings after she had finished second in the individual races over 500 m and 3000 m. In addition, she reached the gold medal over 500 m, 1500 m and 3000 m at the European Championships in Mladá Boleslav . This also secured her first place in the overall classification. With the 3000 m relay she also reached third place. In the end, she won the overall World Cup over 500 m in 2011/12 . At the Olympic Games in Sochi in 2014 , she won the silver medal over 500 m after the second-placed Englishwoman was subsequently disqualified. Then she was third over 1500 m, as well as in the team competition over 3000 m.

Fontana won four World Cups in the 2014/15 season. In addition, he came second four times and third once, reaching sixth place in the 500 m World Cup and fourth place in the 1500 m World Cup. At the 2015 European Championships in Dordrecht , she came fourth in the all-around competition and with the relay. In March 2015 she won the bronze medal at the world championships in Moscow over 500 m, 1000 m and with the relay, the silver medal in the all- around event and the gold medal over 1500 m. In the following season she won the World Cup in Dresden and Dordrecht with the relay. At the season highlight of the 2016 World Championships in Seoul , she was fifth in the relay. After finishing third over 500 m in Calgary at the beginning of the 2016/17 season, she took second place twice over 500 m and twice with the relay and finally won fourth place in the 500 m World Cup. At the 2017 European Championships in Turin , she won the gold medal in the relay and in the all-around with first place over 1500 and 3000 m. Her best result at the 2017 World Championships in Rotterdam was fourth in the 1500 m. In the 2017/18 season she came in second place over 500 m in Budapest and Shanghai . In addition, she won over 1000 m in Shanghai and third place with the relay and reached third place in the world cup over 500 m. At the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang , she won the gold medal over 500 m. In the relay she reached second place over 3000 m. Over 1000 m she completed her set of medals with the bronze medal.

In the 2019/20 season, Fontana took ninth place in the World Cup over 500 m and eighth place in the World Cup over 1500 m. She won the relay in Nagoya and won third place over 1500 m and second place over 500 m. At the European Championships 2020 in Debrecen , she won the bronze medal over 1000 m and the silver medal over 1500 m, in the all-around competition and with the relay.

Personal bests

• 500 m 42.829 sec. (installed on November 13, 2016 in Salt Lake City)
• 1000 m 1: 29.224 min. (installed on November 12, 2017 in Shanghai)
• 1500 m 2: 15.753 min. (installed on November 12, 2016 in Salt Lake City)
• 3000 m 5: 01.187 min. (installed on March 11, 2012 in Shanghai)

World Cup victories

World Cup victories in individual

No.	date	place	discipline
1.	October 29, 2011	Saguenay	500 m
2.	October 29, 2011	Saguenay	1500 m
3.	December 3, 2011	Nagoya	500 m
4th	4th December 2011	Nagoya	1500 m
5.	December 11, 2011	Shanghai	500 m
6th	February 11, 2012	Dordrecht	500 m
7th	17th November 2013	Kolomna	1000 m
8th.	November 16, 2014	Montreal	500 m
9.	February 8, 2015	Dresden	500 m
10.	February 14, 2015	Erzurum	1500 m
11.	February 15, 2015	Erzurum	1000 m

World Cup victories in the team

No.	date	place
1.	February 4, 2007	Heerenveen 1
2.	4th December 2011	Nagoya 2
3.	February 7, 2016	Dresden 3
4th	February 14, 2016	Dordrecht 4
5.	1st December 2019	Nagoya 5

¹With Katia Zini , Cecilia Maffei and Marta Capurso .

²With Cecilia Maffei, Arianna Valcepina and Martina Valcepina .

³With Arianna Valcepina, Cecilia Maffei and Elena Viviani .

^4thWith Lucia Peretti , Elena Viviani and Arianna Valcepina.

⁵With Cynthia Mascitto , Martina Valcepina and Nicole Botter Gomez .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Note on the award of the order to Fontana
2. ↑ Arianna Fontana - Short Track Athletes: Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics

Web links

• Fontanas website (Italian)
• Biographical information on sportresult.com