2017 ITALIAN CHAMPIONSHIPS
- Tuesday, April 4 – Friday, April 8, 2017
- Riccione, Italy
- Live Results
On day 3 of the Italian Championships, Matteo Restivo popped a 1:56.55 in the 200m backstroke to break the national record. The old record was a 1:56.91 done in 2009 by Damiano Lestingi at the Rome World Championships. Restivo, who was barely under 2 minutes in the morning, is now the 2nd Italian to ever break 1:57 in this event.
Restivo ranks 3rd in the world so far this season.
2016-2017 LCM MEN 200 BACK
RYLOV
1.53.61
| 2 | Jiayu XU | CHN | 1.54.03 | 04/08 |
| 3 | Ryan MURPHY | USA | 1.54.21 | 07/28 |
| 4 | Jacob PEBLEY | USA | 1.54.78 | 06/28 |
| 5 | Kliment KOLESNIKOV | RUS | 1.55.14*WJR | 07/28 |
Gabriele Detti, who broke the 400m free Italian record on Tuesday, went 7:41.64 for a lifetime best in the 800m free. He came within a second of Gregorio Paltrinieri‘s 7:40.81 national record, and is now ranked 1st in the world. Detti’s old personal best was a 7:42.74 from 2014.
Paltrinieri was 2nd in the race, going 7:48.89, which is still the world’s 2nd-fastest time this season. He previously held the world’s top time before this race.
2016-2017 LCM MEN 800 FREE
DETTI
7.40.77
| 2 | Wojciech WOJDAK | POL | 7.41.73 | 07/26 |
| 3 | Gregorio PALTRINIERI | ITA | 7.42.44 | 07/26 |
| 4 | Henrik CHRISTIANSEN | NOR | 7.44.21 | 07/26 |
| 5 | Mykhailo ROMANCHUK | UKR | 7.46.28 | 08/24 |
Winning the 50 fly, Piero Codia popped a 23.67 in a tight race. Andrea Vergani was close behind at 23.70, as Matteo Rivolta (23.85) and Alberto Razzetti (23.90) also broke 24 seconds. Codia was a bit faster in prelims, a 23.57 that ranks him 4th in the world this year.
2016-2017 LCM MEN 50 Fly
SANTOS
22.61
| 2 | Henrique MARTINS | BRA | 22.70 | 05/26 |
| 3 | Benjamin PROUD | GBR | 22.75 | 07/24 |
| 4 | Caeleb DRESSEL | USA | 22.76 | 07/23 |
| 5 | Andrii GOVOROV | UKR | 22.77 | 07/23 |
Iliara Bianchi was the only woman to crack the world top 5 tonight. Winning the 100 fly, she posted a 57.90 to improve upon her 58.03 from March, now sitting 5th in the world this season. Silvia Di Pietro (58.07) and Elena Di Liddo (58.28) finished up right behind her.
2016-2017 LCM WOMEN 100 FLY
SJOSTROM
55.53
| 2 | Emma McKEON | AUS | 56.18 | 07/24 |
| 3 | Kelsi WORRELL | USA | 56.37 | 07/24 |
| 4 | Rikako IKEE | JPN | 56.89 | 01/28 |
| 5 | Penny OLEKSIAK | CAN | 56.94 | 07/24 |
In the closing relays, GS Fiamme Oro Roma took the men’s 4×100 free relay, while Circolo Canottieri Aniene won the women’s 4×200 free relay. Marco Orsi led off the Fiamme Oro Roma relay with a 49.05, and they got a 48.11 anchor leg from Alessandro Miressi, a teenager born in 1998. Among all of the relays, other sub-49 splits came from Alessandro Bori (48.95), Giovanni Izzo (48.91) and Filippo Magnini (48.37). Federica Pellegrini anchored Circolo’s 800 relay with a 1:57.60.
Other winners
- Margherita Panziera took the women’s 200 back in 2:10.88, which does crack the world top 25.
- In the women’s 400 IM, Stefania Pirozzi went 4:38.40 to break the Italian Champs meet record in a time that places her 8th in the world this year.
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Italian doctors are back in business.
Ohhhhhhh thats a gutsy statement
Hopefully one of the Italians can knock out Sun Yangs 1500 wr and his textile 800 record at worlds this summer. That 7:32 800 suited and probably doped world record is so crazy.
they seem to have the powerhouses to do it . Its time those 2 WR to go down .
I can see Detti winning the 1500, 800, and being one of many contenders in the 400. He had a great 1500 at the olympics last year and seems tp still be improving significantly. Looking forward to Budapest
48.11 is very fast.
The Italians have a potential great 400 free relay in preparation .Great to see that ..they have always been close to the top 4,5 teams in the world .