Short Course Regional Championships Emilia Romagna
- Riccione, Italy
- April 24-25, 2021
- 25 meters
- Results
Taken from reporting by Giusy Cisale. For the original article in Italian, click here.
17-year-old Simone Cerasuolo broke the World Junior Record in the SCM 50 breast on Sunday in Riccione with 26.26, undercutting by 5 hundredths the previous World Junior mark set by another Italian breaststroker, Nicolo Martinenghi. Martinenghi had established the WJR with 25.31 in December 2017 at the European Short Course Championships in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Cerasuolo, who won’t turn 18 until June 22, swims for Imolanuoto under Cesare Casella. Along with all other male athletes born in 2003, he will be eligible to set Junior World Records through the end of 2021. The athletes included in the junior category are boys and girls who, on 31 December of the year in which they establish the record, are aged between 15 and 18 for males and between 14 and 17 for females.
In 2016, FINA published a table of benchmark times in short course meters that would serve as targets for World Junior Records. Beginning January 1, 2015, the first juniors to eclipse the benchmarks would set the WJRs. Prior swims by 15-18 boys and 14-17 girls were not ratified. Therefore, Katie Ledecky’s 2014 performances in the 400, 800 and 1500m freestyle did not count, nor did Ruta Meilutyte’s performance in the 100 m breaststroke.
Cerasuolo currently tops the 18-and-under world list in the LCM 50 breast for 2021, with the 27.50 he swam at 2021 Italian Olympic Trials at the beginning of April. His 1:01.28 in the LCM 100 breast from the same meet ranks 5th.
