Enrico Fabris

Enrico Fabris
nation	Italy
birthday	5th October 1981
place of birth	Asiago
size	189 cm
Weight	80 kg
Career
society	Gruppo Sportivo Forestale Gruppo Sportivo Fiamme Oro
National squad	since 2000
Pers. Best times	500 meters - 35.99 sec 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
status	resigned
Medal table
Olympic medals 2 × 0 × 1 × World Cup medals 0 × 7 × 0 × EM medals 1 × 1 × 1 ×
winter Olympics gold Turin 2006 1500 m gold Turin 2006 team bronze Turin 2006 5000 m
Placements in the speed skating world cup
Debut in the World Cup November 18, 2000 in Berlin   World Cup victories 8th  Total toilet 1500 2. (06/07)  Total toilet 5000/10000 3. (06/07, 07/08)
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  1500 meters 5 3 5  5000 meters 1 3 3  10,000 meters 1 0 1  Team competition 1 1 2
last change: 11/21/2009

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

In his international career, which has been going on since 2000, Fabris celebrated successes especially on the long haul. The biggest of these was winning two Olympic gold medals at the 2006 Winter Olympics, both over 1500 meters and as a team. In addition, he achieved eight World Cup victories and in 2006 he won the European Championship. There are also other medals at world championships. On November 10, 2007, he set a world record over 5000 meters, and he also holds the national records on almost all routes (with the exception of sprint distances).

Career

First successes (2000-2005)

Initially, Fabris competed in junior races on an international level such as the Viking Race 1998 in the age group 12-17. In December 2000 he took part in the Italian all-round championship, in which only five athletes started because of the minor importance of Italian speed skating for men. He finished second behind Roberto Sighel here. In 2001 he was able to reach at least twelfth place in the all-round junior world championship, after having previously participated unsuccessfully in two junior world championships. In the World Cup, the Italian had already made a brief appearance in the 2000/01 season , but this remained without points for him. In the 2001/02 World Cup he regularly got good results in the B group, but he has not yet made it into the A class. Overall, however, he already reached 29th place out of a total of 44 participants in the 5000 / 10,000 meter World Cup. This season he also placed 16th in the Grand Four Fighting at the All-Around European Championship in 2002 . He also competed at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City and was the best U23 athlete in sixteenth over 5000 meters.

In the 2002/03 World Cup , Fabris got his first start in the A group and confirmed his good performance, especially at the season finale in Heerenveen , when he was ninth over 5000 meters. In addition, he even made it onto the podium twice in Group B. In his first all-round world championship , the Italian placed 15th after being disqualified over 10,000 meters. He was also classified as fifteenth over that distance at the 2003 Individual Distance World Championships and ninth over 5000 meters. Since 2003 until today, Fabris has also consistently won the title of Italian champion in the great four-way battle. In the 2003/04 season he achieved his first top 3 result in the A group, a third place over 1500 meters in Inzell . In the overall World Cup over this distance, he placed fifth, in the 5000 / 10,000-meter World Cup in sixth. The culmination of this successful season, a medal at the all-round world championship in 2004 , he only just missed fourth place, and he was also fifth over 5000 meters in the individual distance world championship of the year .

From the 2004/05 season at the latest , Fabris was one of the top international long-distance athletes. In November 2004 he celebrated his first World Cup success over 1500 meters in Berlin , plus many other results in the top five. In the 1500 meter World Cup he defended his fifth place, in the discipline world cup of the longest distances he slipped a few places to eighth place. At the all-round world championship 2005 he did not classify himself, at the individual distance world championship he surprisingly succeeded in winning the silver medal with the team and fourth place over 5000 meters.

Olympic victory and world class (2005-2009)

Enrico Fabris after winning with the team

The 2005/06 season was very successful for Fabris, although it did not look like it at the beginning of the 2005/06 season . In the first few competitions, the Italian did not get in shape and often missed the top 10. An exception was the setting of the Italian national record over 3,000 meters in Calgary , which is still valid today. It wasn't until December that he got back on the podium 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 became the first Italian ever to become European champion in Hamar . The Italians' hopes rested on him when he traveled to Turin for the 2006 Winter Olympics . There he impressed in the first ever speed skating competition of the Games, the 5000 meter race, where he won the bronze medal with the victory of Chad Hedrick , which was the first ever Olympic speed skating medal for Italy. Five days later, on February 16, the Italian relay won the gold medal after beating the United States with an Olympic record, the Netherlands and Canada. On February 21, he also won the 1,500 meter race, which made him nationally known in one fell swoop. Before, Fabris told the Washington Post , he would have been unknown in Italy even after winning the European Championship. As the last race, he also contested the 10,000 meter course, on which he was only eighth. After the Olympics, he also won a medal for the first time, here silver, at the all- around world championship and placed third in the 1,500 meter world cup. He also improved his top result to fifth place in the 5000 / 10,000 meter World Cup.

In the winter of 2006/07 Fabris achieved four more World Cup victories, three over 1500, one over 10,000 meters. Only beaten by Wennemars heirs , he came second in the 1500 meter World Cup and also third in the long distance World Cup. He could not defend the European championship title in second place, but he won the silver medal again at the all- around world championship in 2007 . He also won silver at the individual distance World Championships over 5000 meters. The 2007/08 season was not quite as successful for Fabris with a World Cup victory as the previous one, but he defended his third place in the 5000 / 10,000 meter World Cup. In addition to bronze at the European all- around championship in 2008 , he won three silver medals at the individual distance world championships , over 5000 and 10,000 meters and in the team. This time he finished the all-round World Cup in seventh place. Until January 2009 Fabris had no further World Cup success in the 2008/09 season , even in the all-around European Championship he did not rank after disqualification.

On November 21, 2011, the FISG announced that Fabris had ended his career after finishing only last at the World Cup in Chelyabinsk over 1,500 meters and then not taking part in the five-kilometer race.

Speed ​​skating world cup placements

The table shows the placements achieved in the Speed ​​Skating World Cup.

• 1st – 3rd place: Number of podium placements
• Top 10: Number of places in the top ten

placement	100 m	500 m	1000 m	1500 m	3000 m	5000 m	10,000 m	team	total
1st place				5		1	1		7th
2nd place				1		3			4th
3rd place				5		3	1		9
Top 10				16		16	5		37
As of November 21, 2009

Web links

• Website of Enrico Fabris
• Photos by Enrico Fabris at DESGphoto
• Results on the speed skating news page
• Enrico Fabris in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Mike Wise: Speedskater Goes From Anonymity To Celebrity in Italy on washingtonpost.com
2. ↑ Speed ​​Skating: Enrico Fabris si ritira  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Association homepage of the FISG from November 21, 2011  
3. ↑ Fabris stops met schaatsen , De Telegraaf -Telesport from November 21, 2011