Short course world championships, Mora takes silver in the 200m backstroke. Bronze in the mixed relay

Italy collects the last two medals at the World Championships in Budapest in the short course: an individual silver in the 200 backstroke, a group bronze thanks to the men’s 4×100 medley. The haul is 9 medals in the first post-Paris event. Lorenzo Mora wins silver, the eighth Italian medal at the short course World Championships in Budapest. The second most famous from Carpi after Paltrinieri, trained by Claudio Rossettto at the federal center in Ostia, reaches 1’48″96 (he has an Italian record of 1’48″43) and conquers the metal he was missing after the medals in the 50 and 100. Only the home Olympian Hubert Kos beats him, author of the championship record in 1’45″65, with the Frenchman Tomac taking bronze in 1’48″93. Short course specialist, Lollo, 26 years old, is a great character who always tries and has consistently medaled for the past three years (his third silver at the World Championships). Mora says: “It was the only distance where I missed silver, I knew that today it was possible. The first was unreachable, he is Olympic champion for a reason. I am very happy, I hoped to do a little better. The fact of being an old man involves knowing how to manage a little better the emotional baggage that the races bring with them. I have improved in recent years, it was important to finish well.” Then Mora launches the 4×100 mixed to the bronze of the confirmation of 2022 in Melbourne for the ninth medal of the expedition (1-5-3) in a race won with the world record by Russia in 3’18″68 which overthrows the 3’18″98 of the USA with Lifintsev 49″31, Prigoda 55″15, Minakov 48″80, Kornev 45″42. Americans beaten in 3’19″03 (Casas 48″92, Andrew 57″03, Rose 48″55, Alexy 44″53 and ahead of the Azzurri authors of 3’19″91 (Mora 49″53, Viberti 56″15, Busa 48″81, Miressi 45″42), 4. Poland 3’21″02.

what a record

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Gretchen Walsh is the fastest woman in the world in the short course in Budapest: the American improved herself by 4 cents at the World Championships and achieved the tenth world record (ninth personal, 25th of the entire event) reaching 22″83. compatriot Kate Douglass was 22 hundredths, Polish Kaisa Wasick bronze at 23″37, under the podium was the British Eva Okaro, author of the jr world record at 23″66, sixth place for the Italian record holder Silvia Di Pietro at 23″87 and seventh Sara Curtis (from lane 8) at 23″87. In the semi-final the 31 year old Roman had regained the Italian record at 23″68, while the eighteen year old from Cuneo had pushed herself further. at 23″76. From 19″90 to 0ro in 20″19: Jordan Crooks confirms himself as the master of the men’s 50 freestyle fending off the Brazilian Guilherme Santos at 20″57 and the American Jack Alexy at 20″61. “I missed another great opportunity, I did many things and I also competed a lot”: Benny Pilato talks about his fourth place in the 50m breaststroke, left below the podium by the American Lilly King with whom he got on the podium for the first time in Gwangju in the long course again at the World Championships. She was 14 years old, now she is almost 20. In a somewhat long turn, she then gave her all in the final rush, finding herself under the podium as in Paris in the 100. A somewhat bewitched 2024 for the Taranto native who is now training to Turin. Ruta Meilutyte (Lit) triumphs 28″54, over the Chinese Tang Qianting 28″86, the American’s bronze is at 28″91, therefore Pilato (29″11) misses the medal by 20 hundredths. For six cents Simone Cerasuolo remains on the podium like the Apulian even if she improves in 25″62. The Russian Kirill Prigoda and the Turkish Emre Saki take the silver ex aequo at 25″56 who pay 14 cents to the Chinese winner Qin Haiyang, gold in 25″42. Sixth with personal best is Ludovico Viberti in 25″71.Regan Smith confirms herself as the dominator of the backstroke, also improving her world record now set at 1’58″04 (previous 1’58″83): the American rejects the ambitions of the Canadian Summer McIntosh, silver in 1’59″96, while the bronze goes to the neutral Belarusian Anastasia Shkurdai in 2’00″56, wood by twenty hundredths to the other American Phoebe Bacon.

he confirms

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The 200m freestyle again belongs to Siobhan Haughey, world record holder since 2021 in 1’50″31: the swimmer from Hog Kong this time wins in 1’50″62 and beats the Canadian Harvey (Can) 1’51″48 and the very talented of 2007 Claire Weinstein (USA, 07) 1’51″62 (jr world record) who leaves the gall to the Australian Lani Pallister (1’51″75); eighth is Sofia Morini who improves her personal best by three hundredths in 1’54″17. In the women’s 4×100 medley, the USA triumphed with a super quartet opened by Regan Smith, who also improved the world record of the 100 backstroke in the first fraction, with Lilly King in breaststroke, Gretchen Walsh in dolphin (eleventh record for her) and Kate Douglass in free style. Great Britain and China were beaten, while it was not enough for Italy to have improved the Italian record of the morning for the medal: the Italians were sixth with this quartet swimming in 3’50″36 (Italian record, previously 3’50” 80 battery, Sara Curtis backstroke 57″41, Benny Pilato breaststroke 1’04″30, Elena Capretta dolphin 57″01, Sofia Morini freestyle 51″64). In total there are 30 Italian finals and 30 world records improved.