Italy d'oro in short track! Blue mixed relay unrivaled

Also on the fourth day of competitions in Milano Cortina 2026 Italy can rejoice in a medal: giving another satisfaction to the Italian colors is the mixed relay team in short track, which won the gold medal in Final A, held shortly after 1 p.m. Tuesday. The Italian team, consisting of Elisa Confortola, Arianna Fontana, Thomas Nadalini and Pietro Sighel, completed the race with a time of 2:39.019, ahead of Canada (Boutin, Sarault, Dandjinou and Roussel) and Belgium (Den Dulk, Hann Desmet, Stijn Desmet and Petre), silver and bronze respectively.

For Italy, it is the 10th medal overall in this edition of the games, adding to Francesca Lollobrigida’s gold in speed skating, won in the 3.000 meters, to the silvers of Giovanni Franzoni in the downhill and the Giacomel-Hofer-Wierer-Vittozzi quartet in the 4×6 km mixed biathon, and to the bronzes of Dominik Paris in the men×s downhill, Sofia Goggia in the women×s downhill, Lucia Dalmasso in the snowboard parallel giant, Riccardo Lorello in the 5.000 meters in speed skating, Dominik Fischnaller in luge and of the Italian figure skating team (Rizzo, Grassl, Gutmann, Conti, Macii, Guignard and Fabbri).

Francesco Lucivero

Arianna Fontana, among other things, stretches to the top of the list of athletes with the most medals at the Winter Olympic Games, reaching twelve: three golds, four silvers and five bronzes the palmares of the short track legend, who since Turin 2006 has always gone to medal, thus succeeding in six different editions of the Winter Olympic Games.