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Milan Cortina 2026, ten Azzurri for short track made official

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The technical staff of the Italian national short track team has released the names of the athletes who will take part in the upcoming 2026 Winter Olympic Games in Milan Cortina. Ten in all the Italian skaters who will participate in the five-ring event, equally distributed between the men’s and women’s sectors.

Andrea GussoniNo one like her: the eleven wonders of Arianna Fontana

Arianna Fontana won the silver medal in the 1500m short-track at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics thus becoming the most medaled Italian woman in history at the Games.
The first came at the 2006 Turin Home Olympics: bronze in the relay together with Marta Capurso, Katia Zini and Mara Zini.
At her second Olympics, the one in Vancouver, the Valtellinese took the third step in the 500m podium.
In 2014 in Sochi Fontana’s personal medal table was heavily enriched: in fact, she was confirmed in the 500m by winning the silver medal.

Second medalist in Russia: bronze in the 1500m.

Together with Lucia Peretti, Martina Valcepina and Elena Viviani she took third place in the women’s relay.

In Pyeongchang 2018 comes the joy for the first Olympic gold of Arianna’s career: in her race, the 500m.
Fountain hit her second consecutive bronze in the women’s relay along with Lucia Peretti, Martina Valcepina and Cecilia Maffei.
The'eighth Olympic satisfaction comes instead from the 1000m where Fontana takes bronze.
At Beijing 2022 also came the first medal in a mixed relay together with the Valcepina sisters (Arianna and Martina), Pietro Sighel, Yuri Confortola and Andrea Cassinelli.
Arianna Fontana also managed to repeat her 2018 gold by winning the 500m again, it is the tenth medal: the one with which she tied Stefania Belmondo’s record.
With the silver medal in the 1500m, won by China’s Choi, Arianna Fontana became the most medaled Italian woman in the history of the Olympic Games (summer and winter).

These are the names:

MALE SECTOR: Andrea Cassinelli (Fiamme Gialle), Thomas Nadalini (Fiamme Oro), Lorenzo Previtali (Fiamme Oro), Pietro Sighel (Fiamme Gialle) and Luca Spechenhauser (C.S. Carabinieri).

Reserves: Mattia Antonioli (C.S. Esercito) and Alessandro Loreggia (Fiamme Oro).

FEMALE SECTOR: Chiara Betti (Fiamme Gialle), Elisa Confortola (Fiamme Oro), Arianna Fontana (Icelab), Arianna Sighel (Fiamme Oro) and Martina Valcepina (Fiamme Gialle).

Reserve: Gloria Ioriatti (Fiamme Oro).

Italy will be present in the three relays on the program and will have the maximum contingent of 3 athletes available in the six individual races (500, 1,000, 1,500).

The national team, which is currently gathering at the federal technical center in Bormio, will enjoy a few days off and rest for Christmas before resuming work on the ice from Dec. 27 until the days leading up to the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games. In between, he is scheduled to participate in the European Championships, which will be held in Tilburg, Netherlands, between Jan. 16 and 18.

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