Roberto Sighel (born 17 February 1967) is an Italian former

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, with particularly strong achievements in the allround samalogue competitions. Sighel was born in

Trento Trento ( or ; Ladin and lmo, Trent; german: Trient ; cim, Tria; , ), also anglicized as Trent, is a city on the Adige River in Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol in Italy. It is the capital of the autonomous province of Trento. In the 16th centu ...

. 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

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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 , skated in

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24 March 1999; this record lasted until Henk Angenent skated 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.

Records

Personal records

Source: SpeedskatingResults.com

World record

Source: SpeedSkatingStats.com

References

External links

Roberto Sighel at SpeedSkatingStats.com

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