Enrico Fabris (born 5 October 1981) is an Italian former
long track speed skater
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who has won three
World Cup
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races and became the first
European Allround Champion from Italy when he won the 2006 European Championships one month before the
Winter Olympics in Turin. In 2007 he won also the silver medal and in 2008 the bronze medal. Fabris is also a six-time Italian Allround Champion.
Career
At the 2006 Olympics he won a bronze medal in the
men's 5,000 m event, Italy's first-ever Olympic medal in speed skating.
[ Five days later, he was in the winning team on the team pursuit event, to claim Italy's first Olympic speed skating gold. With a time of one minute, 45.97 seconds in the 1,500 m race, Fabris claimed his third medal and defeated American favourites ]Shani Davis
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At the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy, Davis became the first African American athlete to win a gold medal in an individual event at the Olympic Winter Games, ...
and Chad Hedrick
Chad Hedrick (born April 17, 1977) is an American inline speed skater and ice speed skater. He was born in Spring, Texas.
Hedrick revolutionized the inline speed skating world with his unique technique, called the double push, or DP. During hi ...
to become the first non-American to win an individual men's event through the first four races of the Turin Winter Games.Sven Kramer
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skated faster in Calgary.
Records
Personal records
he is in 12th position in the Adelskalender with 146.619 points.
World records
Source: SpeedSkatingStats.com[
]
See also
* Legends of Italian sport - Walk of Fame
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*List of multiple Olympic gold medalists at a single Games
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References
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1981 births
Living people
Italian male speed skaters
People from Asiago
Speed skaters at the 2002 Winter Olympics
Speed skaters at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Speed skaters at the 2010 Winter Olympics
Olympic gold medalists for Italy
Olympic bronze medalists for Italy
Olympic speed skaters of Italy
Olympic medalists in speed skating
World record setters in speed skating
Medalists at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Universiade medalists in speed skating
World Allround Speed Skating Championships medalists
Universiade gold medalists for Italy
Universiade bronze medalists for Italy
Competitors at the 2005 Winter Universiade
Speed skaters at the 2007 Winter Universiade
Speed skaters of Fiamme Oro
Medalists at the 2007 Winter Universiade
Sportspeople from the Province of Vicenza
21st-century Italian people