Maurizio Marchetto (born February 13, 1956) is a former ice speed skater from

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, who represented his native country in three consecutive

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, starting in

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. After his active career Marchetto has been coach for the Italian speed skating team, having success with skaters like

Roberto Sighel Roberto Sighel (born 17 February 1967) is an Italian former speedskater, with particularly strong achievements in the allround samalogue competitions. Sighel was born in Trento. His skating career was unusually long, competing at top internatio ...

(

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1994) and

Enrico Fabris Enrico Fabris (born 5 October 1981) is an Italian former long track speed skater who has won three World Cup races and became the first European Allround Champion from Italy when he won the 2006 European Championships one month before the Wint ...

(

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2006). From 2009/2010, he is also coach for Russian speed skater

Ivan Skobrev Ivan Aleksandrovich Skobrev (russian: Иван Александрович Скобрев; born 8 February 1983 in Khabarovsk) is a Russian speed skater. Career At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, he won the bronze medal in the 5000 meter ...

and for French speed skater

Alexis Contin Alexis Contin (born 19 October 1986) is a French speed skater. He is ranked 63 on the Adelskalender and is coached by Jan van Veen. Contin made his international speedskating debut at the Speed Skating World Cup in December 2005. In January 200 ...

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* 1956 births Living people Italian male speed skaters Speed skaters at the 1976 Winter Olympics Speed skaters at the 1980 Winter Olympics Speed skaters at the 1984 Winter Olympics Olympic speed skaters for Italy Place of birth missing (living people) {{Italy-speed-skating-bio-stub