The 22-year-old from Varese gets behind Arno Kamminga (58.62) and Nic Fink (58.65)
The best day of the young career of Nicolò Martinenghi, at least so far. In Budapest, in the final of 100 meters frog, the class of ’99 closes in front of everyone in 58.26 (new Italian record), winning the world title. Behind him the Dutchman Arno Kamminga (58.62) and the American Nic Fink (58.65). A success that coincides with the consecration for Martinenghi, who in the last Olympics had grabbed the bronze at the same distance.
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Nicolò Martinenghi writes a new piece in the history of Italian swimming. In the World Championships in Budapest 2022, the man from Varese wins the gold medal in the 100 meters breaststroke and becomes the first blue world champion in a specialty other than freestyle. The class of ’99, bronze medalist of specialty at the Tokyo Olympics, starts well and turns into second position, behind only the American Nic Fink, to then put the turbo in the second tank and quickly take the lead, resisting the attempt to recover the ‘Dutch Kamminga. Martinenghi then takes the gold in 58 ”26, in front of Kamminga (58” 62) and Fink (58 ”65). For Italy the second medal immediately arrives in two days, after the bronze in the men’s 4×100 freestyle relay.
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World Swimming Championships: great Italy in the men’s 4×100 freestyle, is bronze medal
Incredulous and prey to emotions, Martinenghi comments on his race as follows: “It’s very strange, I’m very happy on one side and less on the other, I expected more on time “. A time that is enough to make history: no blue had ever won a gold in the 100 breaststroke of a world championship in long course. Furthermore, for Italy, this is the first world success in a discipline other than freestyle, if mixed events are excluded. “It’s a hallucinating emotionthe first gold medal in a long course World Cup “.
Fifth place with some regrets instead for Thomas Ceccon in the 50 meters butterfly. The 21-year-old fights for a medal until the very last meters, but his 22 ”86 is not enough to get on the podium for just seven hundredths of a second. Success for the usual Caeleb Dressel (22 ”57) over Nicholas Santos (22” 78) and Michael Andrew (22 ”79). Ceccon consoles himself by hitting the access in the 100-meter backstroke final with the Italian record of 52 ”12, the second best time among the semifinalists, obtained despite the evident management of energy in the last 20 meters. Objective achieved also for Benedetta Pilato, who in the women’s 100 breaststroke wins the first battery in 1’05 ”88 and is a candidate for the role of protagonist in tomorrow’s final. She remains excluded instead Arianna Castiglioni, for which the time of 1’06 ”59 is not enough. The world adventure in the 100 backstroke of Margherita Panziera also stops in the semifinals, out by two tenths with her 1’00 “26, and Silvia Scalia, eleventh overall time in 1’00” 58. Finally, nothing to do for Marco de Tullio, eliminated in the 200 freestyle in 1’46 ”29, tenth best time.
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