30-Yr-Old Lisa Angiolini Breaks SCM 200 Breast Italian Record

2025 ITALIAN SHORT COURSE CHAMPIONSHIPS

Day two of the 2025 Italian Short Course Championships brought about our first national record of the competition, with 30-year-old veteran Lisa Angiolini making her presence known in the women’s 200m breaststroke.

Angiolini stopped the clock at a rapid result of 2:18.96, a time which overwrote the former Italian standard of 2:19.17 Francesca Fangio put on the books over three years ago.

Tonight, Angiolini was the decisive victor, hitting the sole time of the field under the 2:21 barrier. Fangio was next to the wall in 2:21.01 followed by Lucrezia Mancini, who earned bronze in 2:22.41.

Split comparison:

Angiolini’s New ITA Record – 2:18.96 Fangio’s Old ITA Record – 2:19.17
31.32 31.88
1:06.86 1:06.40
1:42.75 1:42.23
2:18.96 2:19.17

Entering this competition, Angiolini’s lifetime best in this 2breast event rested at the 2:21.92 registered in March of last year. That means she hacked nearly 3 seconds off her former PB en route to making Italian history as the first-ever female to delve under the 2:19 threshold.

Angiolini missed this year’s European Short Course Championships due to battling bronchitis; however, her effort here would have earned her the bronze medalist in Lublin, Poland.

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