The gold narrowly escaped, but Nicolò Martinenghi he won a sparkling one silver medal at the World Championships in Doha, in the 50m breaststroke. The Italian finished behind the Australian Sam Williamson by just 7 hundredths, in 26″39 (6 hundredths from his Italian record). Behind him, on the podium, the 100 breaststroke champion Nic Fink.