{{short description|Italian speed skater (born 1981)}} {{Use British English|date=March 2019}} {{Infobox speed skater | name = Enrico Fabris | image = Enrico Fabris 2006.jpg | caption = Fabris at a 2006 World Cup in Thialf (Heerenveen, The Netherlands) | headercolor = #d7ecff | birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1981|10|5}} | birth_place = Asiago, Vicenza, Italy | death_date = | death_place = | club = Fiamme Oro<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.poliziadistato.it/articolo/1344|title=Fiamme Oro discipline sportive - Pattinaggio|publisher=poliziadistato.it|language=it|access-date=13 May 2020}}</ref> | height = 1.88 m | weight = 80 kg | website = | country = {{ITA}} | coach = Maurizio Marchetto | worldcup = | pb = 500 m: 35.99 (2006)<br />1000 m: 1:09.68 (2006)<br />1500 m: 1:43.68 (2007)<br />3000 m: 3:40.23 (2007)<br />5000 m: 6:06.09 (2006)<br />10 000 m: 13:10.60 (2006) | medaltemplates = {{MedalSport|Men's speed skating}} {{MedalCompetition|Olympic Games}} {{MedalGold|2006 Turin|Team pursuit}} {{MedalGold|2006 Turin|1500 m}} {{MedalBronze|2006 Turin|5000 m}} {{MedalCompetition|World Single Distances Championships}} {{MedalSilver|2005 Inzell|Team pursuit}} {{MedalSilver|2007 Salt Lake City|5000 m}} {{MedalSilver|2008 Nagano|5000 m}} {{MedalSilver|2008 Nagano|10000 m}} {{MedalSilver|2008 Nagano|Team pursuit}} {{MedalCompetition|World Allround Championships}} {{MedalSilver|2006 Calgary|Allround}} {{MedalSilver|2007 Heerenveen|Allround}}{{MedalBronze|2009 Hamar|Allround}} {{MedalCompetition|European Championships}} {{MedalGold|2006 Hamar|Allround}} {{MedalSilver|2007 Collalbo|Allround}} {{MedalSilver|2010 Hamar|Allround}} {{MedalBronze|2008 Kolomna|Allround}} }}
'''Enrico Fabris''' (born 5 October 1981) is an Italian former 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. In 2007 he won also the silver medal and in 2008 the bronze medal. Fabris is also a six-time Italian Allround Champion.<ref name=SR>{{cite web|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/fa/enrico-fabris-1.html|title=Enrico Fabris - Biography|publisher=sports-reference.com|access-date=19 October 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121113011319/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/fa/enrico-fabris-1.html|archive-date=13 November 2012}}</ref>
==Career== 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.<ref name=SR/> 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<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.teamusa.org:443/News/2010/February/10/From-Turin-to-Vancouver-Italy-s-Fabris-eyes-more|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190321220140/https://www.teamusa.org/News/2010/February/10/From-Turin-to-Vancouver-Italy-s-Fabris-eyes-more|url-status=dead|archive-date=March 21, 2019|title=From Turin to Vancouver, Italy's Fabris eyes more|date=10 February 2010|agency=Associated Press|website=Team USA|language=en|access-date=21 March 2019}}</ref> to become the first non-American to win an individual men's event through the first four races of the Turin Winter Games.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/fa/enrico-fabris-1.html|title=Enrico Fabris|publisher=sports-reference.com|access-date=12 May 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120221031151/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/fa/enrico-fabris-1.html|archive-date=21 February 2012}}</ref> On 10 November 2007 he took the 5,000 meter world record with 6:07.40, which he lost one week later, when Sven Kramer skated faster in Calgary.<ref name=stats>{{cite web|title=Enrico Fabris|url=http://www.speedskatingstats.com/index.php?file=records&g=m&event=5000|publisher=SpeedSkatingStats.com|access-date=25 August 2012}}</ref>
== Records ==
===Personal records=== {| class="wikitable" align="center" |- align="center" !Distance !! | Time <br>(min:sec.dec) !! | Place !! | Date |- align="right" | 500 m || 35.99 || Calgary-Olympic Oval || 18 Mar 2006 |- align="right" | 1,000 m || 1:09.68 || Turin-Oval Lingotto || 20 Jan 2007 |- align="right" | 1,500 m || 1:43.68 || Salt Lake City-Kearns || 9 Nov 2007 |- align="right" | 3,000 m || 3:40.23 || Calgary-Olympic Oval || 5 Nov 2007 |- align="right" | 5,000 m || 6:06.06 || Salt Lake City-Kearns || 12 Dec 2009 |- align="right" | 10,000 m ||13:10.60 || Calgary-Olympic Oval || 19 Mar 2006 |} {{As of|2019|post=,}} he is in 12th position in the Adelskalender with 146.619 points.<ref name=adelskalender>{{cite web|title=Adelskalendern |url=http://evertstenlund.se/adelm.htm|publisher=evertstenlund.se|access-date=5 November 2018}}</ref>
<small>Source: SpeedskatingResults.com<ref name=Results>{{cite web|title=Enrico Fabris|url=http://speedskatingresults.com/index.php?p=17&s=35|publisher=SpeedskatingResults.com|access-date=29 August 2012}}</ref></small>
=== World records === {| class='wikitable' |- !Event!!Time!!Date!!Venue |- |5000 m||'''6:07.40'''||November 10, 2007||align=left|{{flagicon|USA}} Salt Lake City |}
<small>Source: SpeedSkatingStats.com<ref name=stats2> {{cite web|title=Enrico Fabris | url = http://www.speedskatingstats.com/index.php?file=skater&code=1981100501 | publisher = SpeedSkatingStats.com | access-date = 29 August 2012}}</ref></small>
==See also== * Legends of Italian sport - Walk of Fame *List of multiple Olympic gold medalists at a single Games
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== * {{sports links|properties=-P4069}} * {{CONI profile|new_id=1893|old_id=943}}
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