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Budapest 2024, Day 4 Finals: Sara Curtis Anchor Leg Rallies Italy to 200 Mixed Free Gold It’s been a breakout year for young Italian Sara Curtis, a campaign that has continued with a world junior record in the women’s 50 backstroke at the 2024 World Short-Course Championships in Budapest this week. ...

World Cup Budapest, Day 2 Prelims: Benedetta Pilato Goes 1:05.75 For 100 Breaststroke Meet Record, Rattles Italian Mark Benedetta Pilato set a 100m breaststroke meet record of 1:05.75 on day two of prelims at the World Aquatics Swimming World Cup in Budapest. It was the second best time of her caree...

Olympics Day 4 Notebook: Exciting, Oscillating Medley Showdown Imminent Six women swam under 2:10 in the semifinals of the women’s 200 IM, and realistically, any of them could win gold in this race. For the first time at these Tokyo Olympics, a final is arriving with very little indication as to how...

On the Rise: Italian Swimmers Earn Unexpected Seven Medals at Tokyo Olympics (From September’s Swimming World Magazine) Since 2004, Italy had managed only seven medals in pool swimming. This year, Italian swimmers won six, doubling their total from 2016, plus another in open water. Prior to 2021, It...

Sara Curtis 50 Free Record Highlights Four Wins at Italian Championships Sara Curtis set the Italian record in the women’s 50 freestyle on Sunday to cap a four-win performance at the Italian Short-Course Championships. Curtis’ started the final session of the three-day meet at the Swimming Stadium R...

World Cup Budapest, Day 2 Finals: Siobhan Haughey Goes 1:54.08 For 200 Free Meet Record Siobhan Haughey cut almost a second from her 200 free meet record as she sped to 1:54.08 at the World Aquatics Swimming World Cup in Budapest. With victory the Olympic silver medallist completed the 200 free trip...

The Teflon Record: How 100 Freestyle World Mark of Cesar Cielo Keeps on Surviving The feeling should’ve been familiar to swim watchers with certain experience. David Popovici entered Wednesday’s final in the men’s 100 freestyle with big hopes. His semifinals time of 47.13 mounted a brief charge at t...

Already in the Club, Can Caeleb Dressel Lead Assault on Sub-47s for 100 Freestyle? By Daniel Zeng, Swimming World Intern Year after year, new training methods and the continuous will to improve allow swimmers’ times to drop, seemingly without end. Once a barrier is broken, we immediately begin to en...

The Italian Swimming Federation recently named its team for the Olympic Games this year in Tokyo, with a total of 36 athletes set to represent the nation in Japan's capital in less than three weeks. The team is highlighted by 2008 Olympic champ Federica Pellegrini, who is on her fifth and final Olym...

Olympics: How Federico Burdisso and Italy Became One of the Games’ Top Swimming Stories There should’ve been no secret entering the Tokyo Olympics about the Italian swimming delegation. Just two months prior to the open of competition in Tokyo, the Italians won the team competition at the European C...

Lisa Angiolini & Leonardo Deplano Book Tickets For Paris At Italian Olympic Trials Lisa Angiolini and Leonardo Deplano booked places on the Italy team for Paris 2024 at the Olympic trials in Riccione. Link to results It's the third stage of qualifying following last November's Italian Open and the W...

Male Breakout Swimmer Of The Year: Back To The Future For Thomas Ceccon After Thomas Ceccon set the 100-meter backstroke world record in June, four-time Olympic champion Ryan Murphy gave a tip of the hat, described the Italian as “incredible” and quickly turned his attention to Paris 2024. Ceccon is...

Olympic Relay Analysis: Dressel's Return Plus Young Sprint Stars Make American Men 400 Free Relay Favorites The United States has a complicated recent history with the men's 400 freestyle relay. The Americans had never lost the event in the Olympics before the start of the 21st century, but in four ...

Tokyo Flashback: Caeleb Dressel Helps U.S. Men's Medley Relay to Redemption as Streak Continues One year has passed since the Olympic Games, delayed by a year due to COVID-19, unfolded in Tokyo. To celebrate what went down in the Japanese capital, Swimming World is revisiting the championship finals...

Gregorio Paltrinieri Goes Top Of 800 Free World Rankings At Italian Championships: National 200IM Record For Sara Franceschi Gregorio Paltrinieri went top of the 800 free rankings and Sara Franceschi set a national 200IM mark of 2:10.05 on day three of the Italian Championships in Riccione. Link to ...

Tokyo Flashback: Zach Apple Punctuates Title in 400 Freestyle Relay As American Dominance Grows One year has passed since the Olympic Games, delayed by a year due to COVID-19, unfolded in Tokyo. To celebrate what went down in the Japanese capital, Swimming World is revisiting the championship finals...

The Deepest Events in Global Swimming: Thomas Ceccon, Ryan Murphy Leading Loaded 100 Backstroke Russian athletes have been banned from international competition since early 2022, so entering this summer's World Championships, the storylines in the men's 100 backstroke centered around Americans Ryan ...

ISL Match 1, Day 2: Energy Standard Wins, Summer McIntosh Moves Toronto to Second Halfway through the first match of the ISL season, Energy Standard held an early edge, as was to be expected given the program’s pedigree. But how the other three teams in the opener of the third season of the Internat...

Alessandro Miressi Wins 100 Free & Chiara Tarantino Goes Second Italian All-Time Alessandro Miressi and Chiara Tarantino were among the winners as they claimed their respective 100m freestyle crowns at the Italian Olympic trials in Riccione. Link to results Day 1 report Day 2 report The meet represe...

World Championships: David Popovici Lowers WJR to 47.13 in Caeleb Dressel-Less 100 Free The collision of the world’s top 50 freestyler and the world’s best 200 freestyler … will have to wait. David Popovici lowered his world junior record in the men’s 100 free, escalating his chase for Cesar Cielo’s...