Thomas Ceccon Breaks Italian 50 Fly Record With 22.88 Prelims Swim

2022 FINA WORLD AQUATICS CHAMPIONSHIPS

• June 18-25, 2022 (pool swimming)
• Budapest, Hungary
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In the prelims of the men’s 50 fly, Thomas Ceccon clocked a time of 22.88 to break the Italian record for the event. With this swim, he takes down Piero Codia‘s nine-year-old mark of 23.21, and becomes the first Italian man under the 23-second barrier in the 50 fly.

Top 5 Italian Performers Of All Time, Men’s 50 Fly:

1. Thomas Ceccon – 22.88 (2022)
2. Piero Codia – 23.21 (2013)
3. Andrea Virgani – 23.37 (2018)
4. Daniele D’Angelo – 23.57 (2018)
5. Lorenzo Gargani – 23.63 (2019)

Top 9 Italian Performances Of All Time, Men’s 50 Fly:

1. Thomas Ceccon – 22.88 (2022)
2. Piero Codia – 23.21 (2013)
3. Thomas Ceccon – 23.22 (2020)
4. Thomas Ceccon – 23.29 (2022)
5. Piero Codia – 23.29 (2019)
6. Thomas Ceccon – 23.31 (2021)
7. Piero Codia – 23.35 (2021)
8. Thomas Ceccon (2019)/Andrea Vergani (2018)/Piero Codia (2014 – 23.3

Ceccon’s previous best time stood at 23.22 from 2020, which was just 0.01 seconds off of Codia’s previous record. His swim today is a massive 0.34 second time drop. Ceccon and Codia now hold nine of the fastest Italian performances in the 50 fly.

Headed into semifinals, Ceccon is tied with American Caeleb Dressel for the second seed. They are both 0.01 seconds behind Dylan Carter, the fastest swimmer from prelims. Codia was also in this race, tied at 16th with Polish swimmer Konrad Czerniak at 23.53. They will need a swim-off to determine who will qualify for the semifinals.

Later this session, Ceccon will also be swimming the preliminary heats of the men’s 4×100 free relay. He is also set to swim in the 50 and 100 back further along in the meet.