The blue achieves the eighth time ever in the 200 medley and improves on his 2021 bronze. Miressi, Deplano, Zazzeri and Frigo follow him. Canada and the USA make history in the women’s competition: Douglass and McIntosh break two records
Two silvers to start with. Italian swimming asserts itself at the short course World Championships in Budapest, started with 6 world records: one individual medal, one in the relay. Alberto Razzetti opens the series of Italian medals in the 200 medley: he is second with an Italian record in 1’50″88 (1’51″54 in 2021) and loses only to the American Shaine Casas, who touches the championship record and the American in 1’49″51, a time that erases Lochte’s old world championship. Razzo only suffered halfway through the race when he found himself fourth, 1″66 behind Casas, but he was able to rebalance the performance with a gripping second half thanks to which he fended off the Canadian Knox and the other American Carson Foster. “I’m proud of myself, I really wanted to improve the staff” said the 1999 financier, Genoese but based in Livorno where he trains with Stefano Franceschi. Razzo also takes a step forward on the podium: in 2021 he was bronze. Fresh from three Olympic finals, he was world champion in the 200 butterfly in Abu Dhabi. His time is eighth all time. Just a great time.
use faster
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At the end of the first final session, the silver in the men’s 4x100m freestyle took place: the Azzurri lost only to the USA in 3’03″65, who also took away the world record from two years ago in Melbourne, where the fast relay of the musketeers had triumphed with Ceccon and Conte Bonin absent here 3’01″66 (previous 3’02″75), Alexy 45″05. Hobson 45″18, K. Smith 46″01, Guiliano 45″42 prevail against Miressi 45″95, Deplano 45″76, Zazzeri 46″21, Frigo 45″73), the bronze goes to Poland 3’04″46 . fourth Russia 3’04″62, fifth Brazil 3’04″84.
what a summer
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Summer McIntosh shatters the 400m freestyle world record and gives Canada a gold awaited for 31 years: a stunning 3’50″25. The Canadian dethrones the 2022 champion, the Australian Lani Pallister, who clocks in at 3″48 to the silver and up to three quarters of the race also passed under the world championship of the Chinese Li Bingjjie, while the bronze is also Canadian, signed by Mary Sophie Harvey, who in 3’54″88 leaves the American couple made up of Paige Madden (3’55″12) and Claire Weinstein, born in 2007, author of 3’56″12 on the podium. Gretchen Walsh breaks the wall of 24″ in the semi-finals of the 50m butterfly and earns another 25,000 dollars bonus after the American world record of 24″02 in the heat going down to 23″94, the French Beryl Gastaldello arrives in the final with the second time, third time for the Dutch Tessa Giele in 24″68. Silvia Di Pietro fifth in the first semi-final in 25″13 is eighth ex aequo with the Australian Lily Price, but was eliminated in the play-off 25″7 against 25″26. In the men’s 50m butterfly, Michele Busa (2001) clocked 22″08, six hundredths of a second from Matteo Rivolta’s Italian record, was third in his semi-final and reached the final with the seventh time and in a specialty which saw the third world record fall of the evening thanks to the Swiss Noè Ponti, trained by Massimo Meloni, who improves himself by 7 cents.
mixed
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Kate Douglass then erases another historic record in the 200 medley in the final: the American in 2’01″63 beats the record of the Hungarian Katinka Hosszu who held out for 10 years (2’0″86) and surpasses her compatriot Alex Walsh, sister of art at 2’02″65 and the British Abbey Wood at 2’02″75. The record danced in the four styles and only in the finale was Douglass’s paw decided by touch. In the 100 backstroke the best are Regan Smith (55″05) and Hubert Kos (49″03): in the men’s event, Lorenzo Mora closes the semi-finals with the fourth time and flattering prospects for tomorrow (49″54), while Christian Bacino is eliminated with the 14th time in 50″61. In the women’s 4×100 freestyle relay, Italy finished fifth, one tenth from the Italian record: a growing quartet lined up as in the morning in 3’29″58 (Morini 52″55, Curtis 51″69, Tarantino 52″63, Menicucci 52″71) remains under the podium made up of the Americans who set a world record in 3’25″01 (Douglass 50″95, Berkoff 51″38, Shackell 52″01, G. Walsh 50″67), silver Australia 3’28″25, bronze Canada 3’28″44 (4th f. Oleksiak 52″01).
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