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Roberto Sighel

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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


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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.

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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

  • no. 14 after the 1989 season,
  • no. 15 after 1990,
  • no. 9 after 1991,
  • no. 2 after 1992,
  • no. 3 after 1993,
  • no. 4 after 1994,
  • no. 4 after 1995,
  • no. 5 after 1996,
  • no. 7 after 1997,
  • no. 3 after 1998,
  • no. 3 after 1999,
  • no. 5 after 2000,
  • no. 13 after 2001,
  • and no. 10 at career finish at 2002.
  • Personal records

    Source: SpeedskatingResults.com

    World record

    Source: SpeedSkatingStats.com

    References

    Roberto Sighel Wikipedia