Enrico Fabris

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Enrico Fabris
Enrico Fabris at a 2006 World Cup in Thialf (Heerenveen, The Netherlands)
Country	Italy
Date of birth	October 5, 1981 (age 25)
Place of birth	Asiago, Vicenza
Height	1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Weight	80 kg (176 lb)
Website	Official Website
Medal record Men's speed skating Olympic Games Gold 2006 Turin Team pursuit Gold 2006 Turin 1500 m Bronze 2006 Turin 5000 m World Championships Silver 2007 Salt Lake City 5000 m Silver 2007 Heerenveen Allround Silver 2006 Calgary Allround Silver 2005 Inzell Team pursuit

Enrico Fabris (born 5 October 1981, Asiago, province of Vicenza) is an Italian 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 Winter Olympics in Turin. Fabris is also a three-time Italian Allround Champion.

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 and Chad Hedrick to become the first non-American to win an individual men's event through the first four races of the Turin Winter Games.

[edit] Personal records

• 500 m: 35.99
• 1,500 m: 1:44.02
• 5,000 m: 6:10.23
• 10,000 m: 13:10.60

[edit] External links

• Enrico Fabris Official Site
• Photos of Enrico Fabris

[edit] References

• Summary of results - from skateresults.com, retrieved 16 January 2006
• (Dutch) SportOne.nl - profile, retrieved 16 January 2006
• (Italian) Albo d'oro - Campionati Italiani "All Round". PDF file with Italian speed skating champions, from the Italian Speed Skating Association, retrieved 16 January 2006

Olympic champions in men's 1500 m speed skating

1924: Clas Thunberg | 1928: Clas Thunberg | 1932: Jack Shea | 1936: Charles Mathiesen | 1948: Sverre Farstad | 1952: Hjalmar Andersen | 1956: Yevgeny Grishin / Yuri Mikhaylov | 1960: Roald Aas / Yevgeny Grishin  | 1964: Ants Antson | 1968: Kees Verkerk | 1972: Ard Schenk | 1976: Jan Egil Storholt | 1980: Eric Heiden | 1984: Gaétan Boucher | 1988: André Hoffmann | 1992: Johann Olav Koss | 1994: Johann Olav Koss | 1998: Ådne Søndrål | 2002: Derek Parra | 2006: Enrico Fabris