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SHL Playoffs Semifinals Results (Best-of-7 Series) Brynäs IF (1) b. Skellefteå AIK (5) 4-1 (4-1; 4-3; 1-5; 4-3; 4-1) Luleå HF (2) b. Frölunda HC (3) 4-2 (4-2; 2-5; 3-5; 3-2 3OT; 5-1; 2-0)

Extraliga Playoffs The Finals (Best-of-7 Series) HC Košice (2) vs HK Nitra (3) Game #1 is scheduled for Friday, April 18th in Košice @ 6 p.m. CET

Extraliga Playoffs Semifinals Results (Best-of-7 Series) HC Košice (2) b. HKM Zvolen (10) 4-2 (3-1; 3-2; 4-1; 2-5; 0-3; 5-0) HK Nitra (3) b. DOXXbet Vlci Žilina (4) 4-3 (2-1; 2-4; 2-1 OT; 6-2; 2-3; 2-3 OT; 7-4)

Spring Nationals, Day #3 Sara Curtis MVP of day 3 of the Italian Spring Nationals! after improving her PB in the women's 100m freestyle already in the morning heats, in the afternoon final she destroyed not only her previous limit, but also the 9-year old National Record, previously held by our swimming icon Federica Pellegrini 53.01 is the new record in the same race, Emma Virginia Menicucci was 2nd in 54.14 (big new PB for her) and Chiara Tarantino was 3rd in 54.28 given that Tarantino has a sub-54 PB and also Sofia Morini (here completely out of shape) is a sub-54 swimmer at her best, now the Italian women's 4*100m free relay begins to look like a good one (sure, USA and AUS are out of reach, but the rest of the world is not so far away anymore more on Today's Finals: men's 800m Free: 1.Davide Marchello, 7.53.32 women's 200m IM: 1.Sara Franceschi, 2.10.95; 2.Anita Gastaldi, 2.10.97 (PB), both World qualifying times men's 200m IM: 1.Alberto Razzetti, 1.58.05 (again definitely below the expectations, something's not good with him this week ); 2.Christian Mantegazza, 1.58.95 (big PB, class of 2005) men's 100m Free: 1.Manuel Frigo, 48.34; 2.Carlos D'Ambrosio, 48.60 (very disappointed with him...he should have swum 1 second faster); 3.Lorenzo Zazzeri, 48.62; 4.Alessandro Miressi, 48.74 even if we can add Ceccon and maybe Deplano (if he can convince himself he can swim fast also the 100m and not only the 50m), the 4*100m relay's perspective is really depressing women's 1500m Free: 1.Simona Quadarella, 16.03.77 in the club relays (the 4*100m medley relays), among the women, Sara Curtis swam "only" 1.01 in the backstroke leg, Bottazzo had a good 1.05.40 in the breastroke leg, confirming his win over the individual distance wasn't a fluke and Tarantino (53.68) and Menicucci (54.11) confirmed the value of their clockings from the individual race also with the flying start among the men, Bacico swam even better than the individual race winning effort (53.42) in the backstroke leg, Martinenghi edged out Viberti in the breastroke leg (58.70 to 58.99), Burdisso swam a decent 50.8 in the fly leg and finally Manuel Frigo confirmed himself the best 100m free specialist of the moment with an impressive 47.2 stint

DEL Playoffs The Finals (Best-of-7 Series) Eisbären Berlin (2) vs Kölner Haie (6) Game #1 is scheduled for Thursday, April 17th in Berlin @ 7.30 p.m. CET

DEL Playoffs Semifinals Results (Best-of-7 Series) Kölner Haie (6) b. ERC Ingolstadt (1) 4-2 (0-7; 5-2; 2-0; 2-1; 0-3; 3-2 OT) Eisbären Berlin (2) b. Adler Mannheim (4) 4-0 (3-1; 2-0; 5-1; 6-2)

let's see if finally she can improve Pellegrini's record (53.18) later Tonight... it's gonna be difficult (given that her PB was 54.22 until last Sunday, when she went down to 53.72 in the relay), but not impossible meanwhile, Alessandra Mao paid the prize of Yesterday's emotions and media attention and this morning she swum only the 16th time in the heats of the 100m free (still, she improved her PB by more than a second, from 57.54 to 56.52)

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Final Medal Table 8 / 1 / 4 3 / 4 / 3 2 / 0 / 0 1 / 3 / 5 1 / 1 / 2 1 / 1 / 1 1 / 1 / 0 1 / 1 / 0 0 / 2 / 4 0 / 1 / 2 0 / 1 / 1 0 / 1 / 1 0 / 1 / 0 0 / 0 / 2 0 / 0 / 2 0 / 0 / 2 0 / 0 / 1

women's Junior Team Epee Gold: Ukraine Silver: China Bronze: United States Semifinals Ukraine b. USA 45-43 China b. Switzerland 45-28 Bronze Medal Match USA b. Switzerland 45-42 Gold Medal Match Ukraine b. China 45-34 Full Results & Rankings https://fie.org/competitions/2025/229

men's Junior Team Epee Gold: Italy Silver: Canada Bronze: Hong Kong Semifinals Italy b. Hungary 45-43 Canada b. Hong Kong 45-38 Bronze Medal Match Hong Kong b. Hungary 45-43 Gold Medal Match Italy b. Canada 45-37 Full Results & Rankings https://fie.org/competitions/2025/230?tab=results

it's the main ice stadium built for the 1956 Olympics it used to be an outdoor venues until the late Eighties, then it underwent the first big renewal, part of which was a coverage to keep up with the rules and needs of modern ice hockey now it hosts the local hockey team (still one of the most successful in what remains of the Italian Hockey League) and a lot of curling events (national and international)

Spring Nationals, Day #2 sleepy and somehow disappointing day in Riccione...until the last individual race of the day, when the unthinkable happened: the next big thing in Italian swimming revealed herself well earlier than expected Alessandra Mao, in fact, despite being only 14 (not even sure she already turned 14, actually), won the National title over the women's 200m freestyle in 1.58.86 given that she basically doesn't have a decent start nor turns and she's not doing any power training in the gym yet, I hope (and think) she has room to become a world star in the next few years Today's other champions: women's 50m back: Sara Curtis, 27.90 men's 50m fly: Lorenzo Gargani, 23.32 women's 100m fly: Costanza Cocconcelli, 58.04 men's 100m breastroke: Nicolò Martinenghi, 59.16 (world champ qualifying time...good to see the Olympic champion back on track, despite not in his best shape both mental and physical); in the same race, Ludovico Blu Art Viberti slept big time in the morning heats and was forced to swim in the B Final, which he won in 59.04 (but since he didn't do it in the A final, the time is not accepted as a world qualifier for now) women's 200m breaststroke: Francesca Fangio, 2.23.67 (only 7/100 of a second outside the world champs qualifying time) men's 100m back: Christian Bacico, 53.61

ve l'ho detto...non saltate sul carro quando ormai è tardi per il resto, giornata tutt'altro che scintillante in quel di Riccione

look like the MLB torpedo bats

men's Cadet Individual Epee Gold: Nathaniel Wimmer Silver: Elisei Pisarev Bronze: Nicolò Sonnessa & Simon Shan Junzhe Semifinals Wimmer b. Sonnessa 15-9 Pisarev b. Shan 15-8 Gold Medal Match Wimmer b. Pisarev 15-10 Full Results & Rankings https://www.fencingtimelive.com/events/results/182B371E837049C194980CC84AC03031

women's Cadet Individual Epee Gold: Lotti Horvath Silver: Alina Dmytruk Bronze: Wu Haidi & Alexandra Kravets Semifinals Horvath b. Kravets 15-9 Dmytruk b. Wu 15-4 Gold Medal Match Horvath b. Dmytruk 15-11 Full Results & Rankings https://www.fencingtimelive.com/events/results/75EE5D0A5B8A46DCA04F790AF3833CB9

Extraliga Playoffs The Finals (Best-of-7 Series) HC Dynamo Pardubice (3) vs HC Kometa Brno (4) Game #1 is scheduled for Thursday, April 17th in Pardubice @ 6 p.m. CET

Extraliga Playoffs Semifinals Results (Best-of-7 Series) HC Kometa Brno (4) b. HC Sparta Prague (1) 4-3 (3-2; 0-3; 3-0; 0-1; 4-3 OT; 0-3; 3-1) HC Dynamo Pardubice (3) b. Mountfield HK (2) 4-1 (4-2; 2-3 OT; 4-0; 2-0; 5-1)

Spring Nationals, Day #1 men's 50m back: in Ceccon's absence, 2 youngsters dominated the field...Christian Bacico (2005) won the title and improved himself up to 24.83 Daniele Del Signore (2007) ended up in second place with 25.21 women's 800m free: always only Simona Quadarella...8.24.25 for her, just enough to win the title and earn herself the official ticket to the world champs next Summer men's 200m fly: Alberto Razzetti easily won the race in 1.55.06 (only 7/100 outside the qualifying time), but he said he's not feeling well at all and he's worried about the next days and races women's 100m breaststroke: the race of the championships in day #1. despite Benedetta Pilato gave up the final after a poor heat performance, we already have both world champs qualifiers: Anita Bottazzo won the title with a huge PB in 1.05.82, followed by Lisa Angiolini in 1.06.01. Arianna Castiglioni ended up in 3rd place and therefore she's gonna miss the world champs (at least in this race) despite a good 1.06.22 men's 400m free: Marco De Tullio easily won the race in 3.46.90. Summertime sadness (cit.) for a race that was always so successful for our Country and now it's one of the poorest women's 400m IM: Anna Pirovano won in 4.40.77, which is her PB, but also a depressing time considered that she was just a few tenths of a second outside the old NR at the 300m mark and finished almost 7 seconds shy of said record (still held by Alessia Filippi since Beijing 2008) men's 50m free: Leonardo Deplano destroyed the field, took the title home and earned the official ticket to Singapore with 21.62. all the remaining swimmers were above the 22" mark. finally, in the women's club 4*100m relay, Sara Curtis swum her new PB over the distance in the first leg, she improved by half a second up to 53.72 (and she could have gone faster, if didn't "die" in the last 5/10 meters) if she can repeat herself in the final of the individual race, this would be a qualifying time for the world champs

UWW...what else?

Metalligaen Playoffs The Finals (Best-of-7 Series) Herning Blue Fox (1) vs Odense Bulldogs (2) Game #1 is scheduled for Friday, April 18th in Herning @ 7.30 p.m. CET

Metalligaen Playoffs Semifinals Results (Best-of-7 Series) Herning Blue Fox (1) b. Aalborg Pirates (4) 4-2 (4-0; 6-2; 3-4; 4-2; 3-4 OT; 4-3) Odense Bulldogs (2) b. Rungsted Seier Capital (3) 4-1 (3-7; 4-1; 3-1; 6-5 OT; 4-1)

USA (NCAA Div.I) Frozen Four (St.Louis, Missouri) The Final Western Michigan b. Boston U. 6-2 (2-1, 1-1, 3-0) Game Highlights https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22q5YYSi4bE

NLA Playoffs The Finals (Best-of-7 Series) Lausanne HC (1) vs ZSC Lions Zürich (2) Game #1 is scheduled for Tuesday, April 15th in Lausanne @ 8 p.m. CET