City Of Livorno Meet: Noe Ponti Produces 50.67 100 Fly To Take Over World Rankings

MEETING CITTÁ DI LIVORNO 2025

• Friday, March 21st & Saturday, March 22nd
• Livorno, Italy
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The 2025 City of Livorno Meet in Italy brings swimmers a chance to tune up ahead of next month’s Absolute Italian Championships.

But host nation athletes weren’t the only ones in the water today for timed finals, as 23-year-old Noe Ponti of Switzerland also dove in for an event.

Taking on the men’s 100m butterfly, Olympic medalist Ponti fired off a swift effort of 50.67 to handily take the gold.

Opening in 23.60 and closing in 27.07, Ponti got to the wall nearly 2 seconds ahead of the pack.

Daniele Momoni scored silver in 52.52 and Edoardo Valsecchi rounded out the podium in 53.21.

As for Ponti, today’s outing represents the short course world record holder’s 6th-best performance of all time. His lifetime best remains at the 50.16 registered in April of last year.

His time here now rendres Ponti the #1 swimmer in the world this season.

Another Olympic medalist put her prowess on display, as freestyle ace Simona Quadarella tried the women’s 200m free on for size.

26-year-old Quadarella clocked a time of 1:59.32 to represent one of three swimmers to delve under the 2:00 barrier.

Joining her was Giulia D’Innocenzo who notched 1:59.66 followed by Matilde Biagiotti who touched in 1:59.95.

Additional Notes

• Davide Marchello topped the men’s 400m freestyle podium in a time of 3;50.81 ahead of Marco De Tullio and Gabriele Detti. The former touched in 3:51.95 while the latter turned in 3:52.00. South African Matt Sates was also among the field but fell to 5th with a final time of 3:54.21.
• No man dipped under the minute barrier in the 100m breaststroke. Ludovico Blu Art Viberti was too quick to catch, logging 1:00.71 to beat reigning Olympic champion Nicolo Martinenghi by the slimmest of margins. Martinenghi posted 1:00.72 and Gabriele Mancini earned bronze in 1:01.18.
• The women’s edition of the 100m breast saw Lisa Angiolini nab gold with an effort of 1:07.01. She’s been as fast as 1:06.00 in her career from nearly 3 years ago. Benedetta Pilato snagged silver in 1:07.73 and Francesca Zucia bagged bronze in 1:07.85.
• Leonardo Deplano got it done for gold in the men’s 50m free, posting a time of 22.49. Manuel Frigo hit 22.67 and Alessandro Miressi rounded out the top 3 performers in 22.68 for bronze.