2022 ITALIAN SUMMER CHAMPIONSHIPS
- Tuesday, July 19th – Thursday, July 21st
- Federal Center – Frecciarossa Water Park, Ostia, Italy
- LCM (50m)
- Entries
- Results
The 2022 Italian Summer Championships kicked off today in Ostia with the likes of Olympians Gabriele Detti, Benedetta Pilato and Federico Burdisso in the pool. Nearly 450 athletes across 131 clubs are vying to snag up the remaining spots on the Italian roster for this year’s European Championships.
Multi-Olympic medalist Detti took advantage of domestic rival Gregorio Paltrinieri‘s absence, taking the men’s 400m free decisively. Getting to the wall in a time of 3:44.35, 27-year-old Detti cleared the field by nearly 2 seconds, with Matteo Ciampi representing the only other swimmer under the 3:50 threshold in 3:46.25.
As for Budisso, the Northwestern student-athlete took the men’s 100m fly in a time of 51.56, beating out Matteo Rivolta by .20. Rivolta hit 51.76 to snag silver in the tight race.
The men’s 100m breast was also especially close, with the top 3 performers separated by only .02. Andrea Castello grabbed gold in 1:00.06 to Federico Poggio‘s silver medal-garnering effort of 1:00.07. Simone Cerasuolo, the World Junior Record holder in the short course men’s 50m and 100m breaststroke events, clocked 1:00.08 to round out the podium.
Benedetta Pilato put on a gold medal-worthy performance in the women’s 100m breast, stopping the clock in a time of 1:06.07. That was enough to hold off both Arianna Castiglioni and Martina Carraro who touched in 1:06.16 and 1:06.57 for silver and bronze, respectively.
Additional Winners:
- Matteo Restivo hit 54.41 in the men’s 100m back while Federica Toma clocked 27.84 to capture gold in the women’s 50m back.
- Alice Mizzan took the women’s 2free in 1:59.14, while Silvia Di Pietro took 50m fly bronze in 26.02.
- The men’s 50m free saw just one contestant dip under the 22-second threshold in the form of Leondardo Deplano. He reaped gold in 21.92, only .07 off his lifetime best of 21.85 from 2019.
In the meantime as day 2 it’s over it’s been a pint very exciting session up until the very last race, men’s 800 free, where Lorenzo Galossi proved once again why the guy is supposed to be the next big thing in middle distance: new junior national record in 7:46.28 swum in negative split with back half being exactly 4 seconds faster than front half (3:55.14+3:51.14)
Is Santo still swimming?
good to see detti back in the 400! dropped 2 secs from the world trials and this time would have gotten him a swim at worlds. is he coming back from shoulder surgery?
Detti 🙂