Roberto Sighel

Roberto Sighel
Personal information
Nationality	Italian
Born	(1967-02-17) 17 February 1967 (age 57) Baselga di Pinè, Italy
Height	1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)
Weight	66 kg (146 lb)
Sport
Country	Italy
Sport	Speed skating
Turned pro	1984
Coached by	Maurizio Marchetto
Retired	2004
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)	500 m: 36.93 (2002) 1000 m: 1:12.92 (1999) 1500 m: 1:47.47 (1998) 3000 m: 3:46.80 (1999) 5000 m: 6:25.11 (2002) 10 000 m: 13:26.19 (2002)
Medal record Men's speed skating Representing  Italy World Championships 1992 Allround 1991 Allround 1995 Allround 1998 Allround European Championships 1998 Allround 1999 Allround 1995 Allround

Roberto Sighel (born 17 February 1967) is an Italian former speedskater, with particularly strong achievements in the allround samalogue competitions.

Sighel was born in Trento. 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 world record 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 41.041 km (25.502 mi), skated in Calgary 24 March 1999; this record lasted until Henk Angenent skated 41.669 km (25.892 mi) 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^[1]

World record

Source: SpeedSkatingStats.com^[2]