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Italian Gregorio Paltrinieri defended his 1500 free world title with a 14:35.85 on Sunday night in Budapest at the FINA World Championships. Paltrinieri had a back and forth race before outlasting silver medalist Mykhailo Romanchuk of the Ukraine. Romanchuk fell off of Paltrinieri’s pace slowly but he hung on for a huge silver medal at 14:37.14. Australia’s Mack Horton won the bronze medal with a 14:47.70.
Italy’s Gabriele Detti (14:52.07), Norway’s Henrik Christiansen (14:54.58), Ukraine’s Sergii Frolov (14:55.10), Poland’s Wojciech Wojdak (15:01.27) and the Czech Republic’s Jan Micka (15:09.28) also competed in the championship final.
This is Paltrinieri’s third straight medal in this event at the World Championships as he won bronze in 2013 and gold in 2015. Paltrinieri is also the fourth swimmer to repeat World titles in this event after Vladimir Salnikov (1978, 1982), Grant Hackett (1998, 2001, 2003, 2005) and Sun Yang (2011, 2013) won back to back titles in their careers.
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Not sure it was “back and forth” as Paltrinieri was ahead all the way?
Horton led, but conceded the lead to Paltrinieri after 100m. Paltrinieri gradually drew away from a dogged Romanchuk (who swam very strongly). The gap between Horton and the two leaders increased markedly during the race. He finished 12 seconds behind Romanchuk, who was 2 seconds behind Paltrinieri. The times of the gold and silver medalists are in the top five ever recorded. A great race by them.
in my opinion, the aesthetically more beautiful style had Romanchuk,
Paltrinieri has won in the turns and of course by shoulder drive…