Roberto Sighel
Roberto Sighel 
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| birthday | 17th February 1967 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| place of birth | Trent | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| size | 157 cm | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| discipline | All-around | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Pers. Best times | 154.238 points (Grand four-way fight) 6th – 7th February 1999 in Vikingskipet ( IR ) |
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| status | resigned | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| End of career | 2002 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Roberto Sighel (born February 17, 1967 in Trento ) is a former Italian speed skater .
Sighel became the first and so far only Italian world champion in the all- around event in Calgary in 1992 . He also won silver in 1991 and bronze in 1995 and 1998 at the all- around world championships .
Sighel's career spanned 14 years. He took part in all five Winter Olympic Games from 1988 to 2002 , but without winning a medal.
In 1999 he set a new world hour record in speed skating with 41.041 km . He ran almost 850 meters further in the Olympic Oval than the previous record holder Olaf Kotva from Germany . It would take almost five years for Dutchman Henk Angenent to surpass his mark in 2004.
Speed skating world cup placements
| placement | 100 m | 500 m | 1000 m | 1500 m | 3000 m | 5000 m | 10,000 m | Mass start | team |
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| 1st place | 2 |
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| 2nd place | 1 |
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| 3rd place | 3 | 2 | 1 |
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| 4th - 10th place | 1 | 20th | 1 | 18th | 3 |
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established world records
| No. | discipline | Time / points | date | place | Duration |
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| 2 | Hour run | 41040.54 m | March 24, 1999 | Olympic oval | 4 years and 354 days |
| 1 | Big all-around | 157,150 pts. | March 22, 1992 | Olympic oval | 0 years and 307 days |
Unofficial best.
Web links
- Roberto Sighel in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Statistics at SpeedSkatingStats
- Statistics on the speed skating news page
- Statistics on the speedskatingresults page
Individual evidence
- ^ Evolution of the world Hour Record Men on www.speedskatingstats.com
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Sighel, Roberto |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian speed skater |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 17th February 1967 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Trent |