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Tania and torpedo-men: for Italy the swimming is a Sunday bronze – Il Sole 24 Ore

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This article was published on August 2, 2015 at 20:17.

Best start for Italy lanes and starting blocks, really could not be there. The pool of Kazan immediately brings us the first medal, which comes on the first day of finals in the tank. A mettersela neck are the bad boys of the 4×100 freestyle male, born Luca Dotto, Marco Orsi, Michele Santucci and Filippo Magnini, you go to sit on the podium behind a stellar France and hosts Russia.

Aided by the absence of the United States and Australia, sensationally eliminated in the batteries of this morning, the fight for medals seems more open than ever and already from the first portion of Luca Dotto Italy made it known volervi take part. Our change fifth after the first quarter, but a Marco Orsi scream grabbing them back under the second provisional position and leaving the baton blue, the end of his village, just two tenths from France. Italy falls into the water for Michael Santucci, but above all for Russia comes Vladimir Morozov, which puts the turbo and runs off with Fabien Gilot. Italy is fourth when King Magnus off the feet of the starting block in front is Brazil to recover. The captain of the expedition blue does not betray and print a fraction from 47.55, fastest time in the Italian quartet. Italy wins with about a medal that was missing from Melbourne 2007.

Record for the Italian women’s 4×100 – Brave the girls speed, that in the batteries of this morning they had caught a qualification to the final did not come for twelve years and have ended sixth place, best possible result considering the values ​​in the field. The quartet formed by blue Erika Ferraioli, Silvia Di Pietro, Laura Letrari and Federica Pellegrini has registered the new Italian record, a 3:37:16 that clears that achieved last year at the European Championships in Berlin. Not the lap times of exceptional Letrari and Ferraioli, from which there is still the possibility of filing a few tenths, instead the super race Silvia Di Pietro. Chapter Federica Pellegrini as ever apart. Good its findings today in the tub, but she fireworks expect them Tuesday and Wednesday in the individual competition of the 200 freestyle. The day of the final will be on August 5th, 27th birthday of Superfede, maybe that is already dreaming to treat yourself to something to wear around his neck …

The Treble of Cagnotto – bronze in the three-meter springboard synchro mixed. Third masterpiece for Tania Cagnotto, third medal after gold in the one-meter springboard and the bronze by three meters, for a World Cup that yesterday the blue defined as the most beautiful of his life. This time to keep her company on the trampoline was Maicol Verzotto, which already in the race mixed synchro platform, paired with Noemi Batki, had missed the podium and that was able to go and take the first world championship medal of his career. Gold, needless to say, went to China, while silver for less than two points, went to the Canadian couple, with Jennifer Abel who went to take back what was left on the street in the individual by 3 meters. Tania for it was the last race ever in a World Cup, the closing of a world championship career that gave her something like ten medals.

Ten and Tania – For the undisputed star of Italian dips that today is the tenth medal at a World Cup. The first podium came in 2005, in Montreal, with the bronze medal in the springboard of three meters behind the two divine dips Chinese, Guo Jingjing and Wu Minxia, ​​result photocopy of what it happened two years later, this time in Melbourne. In World of house, Rome, 2009, Tania was competing for the first time in sync paired with Francesca Dallape and what would become the most successful couple ever in Europe showed the world with a silver medal. In the world of home Tania was confirmed again on the podium in the three-meter springboard, where he was again third behind eternal Guo Jingjing and canaese Emilie Heymans.

Shanghai in 2011, thanks to an accident on a motorbike a few weeks earlier, was likely to be the first around vacuum for Bolzano, but the last was able to grab a bronze in the 1-meter springboard. So we arrive in Barcelona in 2013, forgetting for a moment that those who haunted London Olympics Tania yielded two fourth places and a disappointment infinite. The World Spanish was that of revenge and ended with a silver in synchro with Francesca Dallape and a silver in the one-meter springboard for only 0.10 points. It seemed the ultimate insult, however it was only the penultimate step of a direct route to Russia. The rest is recent history. The first World Championship victory in the one-meter springboard, the bronze in what will be the Olympic competition and the bronze today in a discipline that had never seen Tania on the podium.



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