Maurizio Marchetto is a former ice speed skater

Speed skating

Speed skating, or speedskating is a competitive form of ice skating in which the competitors race each other in traveling a certain distance on skates. Types of speed skating are long track speed skating, short track speed skating, and marathon speed skating...

 from Italy

Italy

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, who represented his native country in three consecutive Winter Olympics, starting in 1976

Speed skating at the 1976 Winter Olympics

-500 m:Tuesday February 10, 1976 — 30 competitors from 16 countries-1.000 m:Thursday February 12, 1976 — 32 competitors from 16 countries-1.500 m:Friday February 13, 1976 — 30 competitors from 18 countries-5.000 m:...

 in Innsbruck, Austria.

After his active career Marchetto has been coach for the Italian speed skating team, having success with skaters like Roberto Sighel

Roberto Sighel

Roberto Sighel is a former Italian speedskater, with particularly strong achievements in the allround samalogue competitions.His skating career was unusually long, competing at top international level from 1988 to 2002...

 (world champion

World Allround Speed Skating Championships for Men

The International Skating Union has organised the World Allround Speed Skating Championships for Men since 1893. Unofficial Championships were held in the years 1889-1892.-History:-Distances used:...

 1994) and Enrico Fabris

Enrico Fabris

Enrico Fabris is a former 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. In 2007 he won also the silver medal an in 2008 the...

 (olympic champion 2006). From 2009/10 he is also coach for Russian speed skater Ivan Skobrev

Ivan Skobrev

Ivan Aleksandrovich Skobrev is a Russian speed skater. At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, he won the bronze medal in the 5,000 meters as well as the silver medal in the 10,000 meters. He is the reigning European and World Allround Champion.At the 2006 European Championships he finished in...

 and for French speed skater Alexis Contin

Alexis Contin

Alexis Contin is a French speed skater. He is ranked 63 on the Adelskalender and is coached by Jan ven Veen.Contin made his international speedskating debut at the Speed Skating World Cup in December 2005...

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