Blueseventy Swim of the Week: Martinenghi Keeps Slashing WJRs

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For at least the third time this year, Nicolo Martinenghi has broken a junior world record in the breaststroke.

Swimming next to world record-holder Adam Peaty, the Italian Martinenghi went 59.31 at the Sette Colli Trophy this weekend, shaving another tenth off his own junior world record in the 100 breast and finally taking over the Italian national record from Fabio Scozzoli. Scozzoli had held the mark at 59.42 since 2011. Martinenghi was 59.46 back in April to rattle Scozzoli’s mark and set a new junior world record.

Just a day before that 59.4 swim in April, Martinenghi also broke the junior world and Italian national record in the 50 breast, going 26.97. That means his swim this weekend was at least the third junior world record-setting swim the 1999-born swimmer has had in the first half of 2017.

Martinenghi currently sits #4 in the world ranks in the 100 breast and #5 in the world ranks in the 50 breast, making him a threat for multiple medals at this summer’s World Championships in Budapest.

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ERVINFORTHEWIN
7 years ago

This guy has serious talent . Good for Italy and swimming in general !

bobo gigi
7 years ago

Men’s 400 IM. Verraszto 4.07.47 Seto 4.07.99 RACE VIDEO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V87PgB9MgfM

bobo gigi
7 years ago

Paltrinieri 14.49.06 RACE VIDEO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpFZrqIRpZg

bobo gigi
7 years ago

Martinenghi 59.31 RACE VIDEO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Im4-aaqgW1o

Ex Quaker
7 years ago

How old is he?

Dee
Reply to  Jared Anderson
7 years ago

He’s 18 in August, isn’t he?

Brownish
Reply to  Jared Anderson
7 years ago

He was born in Varese, 01.08.1999, so he is 17 at the moment.

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Jared Anderson swam for nearly twenty years. Then, Jared Anderson stopped swimming and started writing about swimming. He's not sick of swimming yet. Swimming might be sick of him, though. Jared was a YMCA and high school swimmer in northern Minnesota, and spent his college years swimming breaststroke and occasionally pretending …

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