Nationality Italian Sport Speed skating Retired 2002 Country Italy Role Speed Skater | Weight 66 kg (146 lb) Name Roberto Sighel Height 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) Turned pro 1987 | |
Born February 17, 1967 (age 57) ( 1967-02-17 ) Trento, Italy |
Training for skating curva traino roberto sighel 1990
Roberto Sighel (born 17 February 1967) is an Italian former speedskater, with particularly strong achievements in the allround samalogue competitions.
Contents
- Training for skating curva traino roberto sighel 1990
- Adelskalender
- Personal records
- World record
- References
Sighel was born in Trento. His skating career was unusually long, competing at top international level from 1988 to 2002. He participated in each of the 1988, 1992, 1994, 1998, 2002 Olympics, with 7th place his best result (10,000-m 1988, 5000-m 2002).
Sighel won the 1992 World Allround Championships, where he set a world record with 157.150 (37.38, 6:43,91, 1:52,38, 13:58,39). He also held the world record for one hour skating, with 41.041 km (25.502 mi), skated in Calgary 24 March 1999; this record lasted until Henk Angenent skated 41.669 km (25.892 mi) on 12 March 2004, also in Calgary.
In the World Allround Championships series, his results were 23 (1987), 6 (1988), 15 (1989), 2 (1991), 1 (1992), 6 (1993), 13 (1994), 3 (1995), 13 (1996), 22 (1997), 3 (1998), 4 (1999), 19 (2001), 7 (2002).
Adelskalender
Very few skaters manage to stay within the top ten of the Adelskalender over several seasons. Sighel is among those few, as he was
Personal records
Source: SpeedskatingResults.com
World record
Source: SpeedSkatingStats.com