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An extraordinary Simona Quadarella wins gold in the sprint, with a time of 8.17.44, after taking gold and the rainbow title in the 1500-meter freestyle four days ago. Azzurra burns in the final the German Isabel Gose, silver at 8.17.53, third New Zealand's Erika Fairweather, world champion in the 400 freestyle and bronze medalist in this race at Fu...

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A specialist in the hardest stroke in swimming, Ann Carozza was a champion in and out of the pool during her college career. After shining as an NCAA Division II star swimmer, Ann Carozza this month will attend the NCAA Convention as one of the Top 30 semifinalists for the Woman of the Year Award. The 23-year-old graduated in May from West Chester...

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Since the arrival of the new millennium, Italian swimming has exploded at the world level. Throughout the last century, Italy had never achieved great results in international competitions, or at least only on a few occasions. Since the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games, Italian swimmers have been winning relentlessly, and legendary champions such as Massi...

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More and more, it is sports that have Italy being talked about around the world as a winning nation. If 2021 was the magic year ever, with Italian athletes winning in every sports competition in which they participated, 2022 closes with just as many successes in dozens of international events. The first victories in chronological order came earlier...

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Italy's men’s 4x100m freestyle relay team wins the gold medal at the World Short Course Championships in Melbourne with a time of 3:02.75, setting a new world record. Silver went to Australia, while bronze went to the United States. Italy's Gregorio Paltrinieri also triumphs with a gold medal in the 1500 freestyle event with a time of 14:16.88. The...

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23 nations won at least one medal at the European Watersports Championships that ended yesterday in Rome. Italy broke all records with an impressive 67 medals, 24 gold, 24 silver and 19 bronze: no country had ever won so many medals. The Italian athletes won podiums in all aquatic disciplines, from swimming (as many as 35) to open water swimming (6...

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The 2022 European Championships wrapped up tonight from Rome, Italy but not before the host nation sealed its spot atop the overall swimming medal table. For the first time ever, Italy has won the European Championships medal table, amassing a total of 35 pieces of hardware. The nation’s women claimed 13 medals while the men grabbed 20, with 13 gol...

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In just over twenty years, Italian swimming has become a world power. For more than a hundred years, beginning with the Paris 1900 Olympic Games, where the first Italian swimmer participated in the competitions by diving into the Seine, Italy's swimming participated in international competitions as a spectator. We rarely won a medal, and swimming w...

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Dario Verani won the gold medal in the 25 km cross-country at the World Swimming Championships in Budapest. "I have to be honest, from the beginning of the year we thought we could do it, but now I feel like I'm living a dream, I feel in heaven," the athlete confessed.  "I did not settle, once I was there I had to take advantage I said to myself, t...

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An Italian double in the 10 km cross-country at the ongoing World Swimming Championships in Budapest. Taking the gold was Gregorio Paltrinieri, who had already climbed to the top step of the podium in the 1500 freestyle, and won the bronze medal in the marathon relay and silver in the 5 km on Lupa Lake. But alongside him on the second step of the p...

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