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Roberto Sighel

Roberto Sighel
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Roberto Sighel
Personal information
Nationality Italian
Born (1967-02-17) February 17, 1967 (age 50)
Baselga di Pinè, Italy
Height 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)
Weight 66 kg (146 lb)
Sport
Country Italy
Sport Speed skating
Turned pro 1984
Coached by Maurizio Marchetto
Retired 2004
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s) 500 m: 36.93 (2002)
1000 m: 1:12.92 (1999)
1500 m: 1:47.47 (1998)
3000 m: 3:46.80 (1999)
5000 m: 6:25.11 (2002)
10 000 m: 13:26.19 (2002)

Roberto Sighel (born 17 February 1967) is a former Italian speedskater, with particularly strong achievements in the allround samalogue competitions.

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).

Very few skaters manage to stay within the top ten of the Adelskalender over several seasons. Sighel is among those few, as he was

Source: SpeedskatingResults.com

Source: SpeedSkatingStats.com


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