{"id":244934,"date":"2026-01-18T15:25:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T15:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/244934\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T15:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T15:25:08","slug":"arianna-fontana-wins-fifth-short-track-european-title-ahead-of-milano-cortina-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/244934\/","title":{"rendered":"Arianna Fontana wins fifth short track European title ahead of Milano Cortina 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Italy\u2019s most decorated Winter Olympian <a href=\"https:\/\/olympics.com\/en\/athletes\/arianna-fontana\" target=\"_blank\" node=\"[object Object]\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Arianna Fontana<\/a> continues to look in outstanding form ahead of her second home Olympic Games at <a href=\"https:\/\/milanocortina2026.olympics.com\/en\" node=\"[object Object]\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Milano Cortina 2026.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The 35-year-old claimed her fifth continental\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.olympics.com\/en\/milano-cortina-2026\/sports\/short-track-speed-skating\" node=\"[object Object]\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">short track speed skating<\/a> title on Sunday (18 January), winning the women\u2019s 1500m at the 2026 ISU European Championships in Tilburg.<\/p>\n<p>It was her first European triumph in the distance since 2017, a reminder of the authority she still holds over the sport as her sixth Olympic Winter Games draw closer.<\/p>\n<p>More to follow&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Final results:<\/p>\n<p>Arianna Fontana (ITA) \u2013 2:42.479<\/p>\n<p>Zoe Florence Deltrap (NED) \u2013 2:42.718<\/p>\n<p>Arianna Sighel (ITA) \u2013 2:42.762<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.olympics.com\/en\/milano-cortina-2026\/news\/italys-flagbearers-milano-cortina-2026-brignone-fontana-pellegrino-mosaner\/\" node=\"[object Object]\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Federica Brignone and Arianna Fontana headline Italy&#8217;s flagbearers at the Olympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Italy\u2019s most decorated Winter Olympian Arianna Fontana continues to look in outstanding form ahead of her second home&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244935,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-244934","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}