Italy Names Santo Condorelli In Short Course World Championship Roster

2018 FINA SC WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP

Italy has officially named former American Junior National Teamer and Canadian Olympian Santo Condorelli to its official roster for the 2018 World Short Course Championships.

On November 2nd, Condorelli completed the process of switching to Italian sporting citizenship. Now he will represent Italy at the 2018 FINA Short Course World Championship.

The last week, Condorelli swam 47.86 in 100m free (short course) at “Mussi-Lombardo-Femiano” Trophy and a 21.68 in the 50m free at “Nico Sapio Trophy” in Genoa.

Condorelli adds medal opportunities to the Italian relay, teaming up with mainstay sprinters like the 100m free record holder (long course) Alessandro Miressi and Andrea Vergani.

The Italian National Team for the upcoming 2018 FINA Short Course Swimming Championship is now complete, with 32 swimmers named to the roster. This afternoon, in a statement, the Italian Swimming Federation issued the final list of athletes who will take part at the SC World Championship in Hangzhou, China, from December 11th to 16th.

Nicolò Martinenghi also returns to international competition after recovering from a fracture of his pubic bone.

The swimmers added to the initial roster are: Santo Condorelli, Nicolo Martinenghi, Matteo Rivolta, Martina Carraro, Davide Nardini , Lorenzo Zazzeri, Alessio Proietti Colonna, Mattia Zuin

 

 

COMPLETE ROSTER

Athletes in possession of the following requirements will be qualified for the 2018 World Short Course Championships:

  •  Swimmers ranked within the top three positions in the individual events at 2018 European Championships;
  • In events still available and up to the maximum number of two and in order of time, athletes who score in the period between October 1st and November 18th, national or international events with electronic timing, a performance equal to or better than the time limit indicated in the following reference table.

Italy time table 2018 Short Course Championship

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B1G Fan
5 years ago

“Italian”

Swimming4silver
Reply to  B1G Fan
5 years ago

as Italian as New York-style Pizza

Swack
Reply to  Swimming4silver
5 years ago

This comment is gold

Tea rex
5 years ago

I am surprised Santo went for Italian citizenship.

If you look at 2016, I’d guess a 50/50 chance he would have made the USA Olympic team, and get a gold medal.

Now, Santo already has “Olympian” on his resume. Why not get back into the US to add “Olympic Medallist”?

Mikeh
Reply to  Tea rex
5 years ago

Yes Condorelli was incredibly fast during the Olympic year. Strangely, he was no where near as fast the years before, nor the years after when he finished his collegiate career. Strange indeed.

Gorb
Reply to  Mikeh
5 years ago

He was with diff coaches. Salo, then Coley for Olympic year, then Salo again, then Italy.

Sprintdude9000
5 years ago

Is nobody gonna mention the fact that Italy used comic sans for their world’s qualification times table? 😂

Tea rex
Reply to  Sprintdude9000
5 years ago

LOLOLOLOL

nuotofan
5 years ago

With Italy the lone nation to send at SCWorlds its best squad and Canada exactly at the opposite side, in the midst, with different level of participation, there are all the other countries: Usa, strangely for SCWorlds, in the upper half.

Gorb
Reply to  nuotofan
5 years ago

Translation?

Dee
Reply to  Gorb
5 years ago

Italy sent its best team – One of the very few countries to do so. USA also, surprisingly, one of the few nations to send a squad with quite a few of their biggest names. Many countries, like Canada, decided not to send their best swimmers.

I thought Nuoto made his point perfectly 😛

samuel huntington
5 years ago

wow, Italy bringing all the top guns!

In all seriousness
5 years ago

Is he going to change his flipping the bird superstition to an obscene Italian gesture now?

Pvdh
5 years ago

Vlad, Santo, Pieroni, Dressel….that scm 100 starting to look like an ncaa all star lineup 👀

Bear drinks beer
Reply to  Pvdh
5 years ago

I think Santo is only qualified for relays.

Pvdh
Reply to  Bear drinks beer
5 years ago

Damn

ERVINFORTHEWIN
Reply to  Pvdh
5 years ago

its gonna be fun to watch

Confused
5 years ago

May someone please explain how Santo got away with not living in Italy for an entire year? He was at USC until about May and it is a FINA rule that an athlete must live in their new country for 12 months prior to transferring and competing for said new country. Clearly he did not do this.
I was just curious if there is a loophole as he clearly worked the system.

Admin
Reply to  Confused
5 years ago

The rule says you have to live there for 6 months in a year-Long period. So if he doesn’t leave the country for 6 months, he can call his 6 months at USC as the first 6 months of his 12 month period, and the 6 months from when he arrived in Italy as his 6 months in residency.

In other words, your (6 out of 12 months) doesn’t necessarily have to start in the foreign country.

I wouldn’t really call it a loophole. It’s just a rule that allows some flexibility for people to come and go from their new country. Santo actually took the ‘hardest’ or ‘most conservative’ route (however you want to look at it) by… Read more »

Confused
Reply to  Braden Keith
5 years ago

Thank you so much!!!! I was really curious and this perfectly explains it!

Confused
Reply to  Braden Keith
5 years ago

Do you have a link to this information?

Admin
Reply to  Confused
5 years ago

It’s sort of an amalgamation of information.

Here are the FINA sporting citizenship rules: https://www.fina.org/sites/default/files/fina_sportnationality.pdf

Coupled with the interpretation of excluding Vyatchaning from Serbian citizenship for not having lived in Serbia for 6 of the prior 12 months: https://swimswam.com/arkady-vyatchanin-not-allowed-to-compete-in-world-cups/

The FINA rules don’t explicitly talk about the 50%, but it’s been an interpretation that they’ve used in other cases.

(Of course…that interpretation can easily change when it needs to in order to cause problems for ‘enemies of the state’)

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 GIUSY  CISALE A law graduate, and attorney for 15 years while devoting herself to running her swimming-focused blog, Scent of Chlorine. In 2015, she collaborated with Italian swimming news websites before joining SwimSwam in 2017. She loves swimming from every point of view and in 2016  became an official of the Italian …

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