the italian arianna fontanawho on Friday became the most successful short track speed skater in Olympic history, once again polished her legendary career on Monday with the gold medal in the 500 m, her tenth podium.
This gold is added to the silver also won in Beijing in the mixed relay and validates the victory he achieved four years ago in PyeongChang. He has been on the podium continuously since the 2006 Turin Games.fountainwho crashed on the first lap, forcing the start to be rescheduled, set a time of 42.488 in the final, to 42.559 for the Dutchwoman Suzanne Schulting and 42,724 of the Canadian Kim Boutin.
Schulting made the best pace for the first three laps, but in the fourth she was overtaken by the Italian, who no longer lost her head.
In the other final played this Monday on the short track, the men’s 1,000 m, the Hungarian won Shaolin Sandor Liu but a yellow card for hindering his rivals kept him off the podium. The gold went to the Chinese ren ziwei (1:26.78), the silver for his compatriot Li Wen Long (1:29.93) and the bronze for a brother of Shaolin Sandor, Shaohang Liu (1:35.71).