MEETING CITTÁ DI LIVORNO 2025
- Friday, March 21st & Saturday, March 22nd
- Livorno, Italy
- LCM (50m)
- Entries
- SwimSwam Preview
- Day 1 Recap
- Live Results
The 2025 City of Livorno meeting wrapped up today with multiple swimmers earning additional hardware in the series of timed finals ahead of next month’s World Championships Trials.
Visiting swimmer Noe Ponti of Switzerland already blew away the men’s 100m fly field last night with a world-leading 50.67 but he clocked winning efforts in the 50m fly and 200m IM today.
In the former event, the 23-year-old stopped the clock at 22.91 to beat the field by over a second.
Italians Daniele Momoni and Giulio Meniconi wrangled up the minor medals with the former touching in 23.96 to the latter’s 24.31.
Ponti’s rapid result was just off the season-best 22.83 he registered last month in Dubai to become the #1 performer in the world.
For the 200m IM, Ponti logged a result of 2:00.18 to keep Christian Mantegazza at bay.
The Italian settled for silver in 2:00.92 well ahead of countrymate Jacopo Barbotti who bagged the bronze in 2:02.68.
Ponti owns a lifetime best of 1:59.70 in this event, an outing he put on the books during the 2023 World Aquatics Swimming World Cup.
18-year-old Sara Curtis wrapped up a trio of wins to close out day two of this competition, grabbing gold in the 50m free, 100m free and 100m back.
The 50m free saw the teen stop the clock at 25.25, getting to the wall a hair ahead of Costanza Cocconcelli who secured silver in 25.36 followed by Silvia Di Pietro who notched 25.42 for bronze.
The 100m back saw Curtis turn in a time of 1:01.93 while the 100m free saw Curtis hit 55.07 to reap her trio of medals on the day.
Breaststroke maestro Benedetta Pilato demonstrated her prowess in the 50m sprint, posting a winning effort of 30.52.
She represented the sole competitor of the field to delve under the 31-second barrier en route to establishing her season-best. She now ranks 2nd in the world this season.
2024-2025 LCM Women 50 Breast
JEFIMOVA
30.23
| 2 | SATOMI SUZUKI | JPN | 30.36 | 03/23 |
| 3 | Benedetta PILATO | ITA | 30.52 | 03/22 |
| 4 | Arianna CASTIGLIONI | ITA | 30.55 | 03/16 |
| 4 | Lilly King | USA | 30.55 | 03/07 |
Finally, Filippo Megli topped the men’s 200m free podium in a solid in-season swim of 1:47.95.
Megli has been as quick as 1:45.67 in his career, although that was nearly 6 years ago at the 2019 World Championships.
Additional Notes
- Cocconcelli reaped gold in the women’s 100m butterfly, hitting a time of 59.08. Ilaria Bianchi joined her in sub-minute territory, snagging silver in 59.42.
- 18-year-old Alessandro Ragaini got his hand on the wall first in the 200m fly, posting 1:59.46 as the only swimmer under 2:00 in the race.
- National record holder Alessandro Miressi got it done for gold in 49.51 nearly half a second ahead of the next-closest swimmer, Carlos D’Ambrosio who notched 49.94. Megli was in the race, reaping bronze in 50.12.
- Olympic medalist Simona Quadarella was another multiple-event winner on the day, topping the women’s 800m and 400m free events. In the former, she hit 8:29.99 and registered 4:09.24 in the latter
