More medals for Italy at the swimming world championships underway in Doha, Qatar. After the silver in the 100m Nicola Martinenghi he also places second here are 50 frogs. The blue swam in 26″39beaten only by the Australian Sam Williamson, which preceded it by just seven cents. Bronze to the American Nic Fink (26″49). Simone Cerasuolo, the other Italian competing in the final, placed sixth in 26″93. Second step of the podium also for Alberto Razzetti in the 200 butterfly. The Italian swam in 1’54″65, only losing to the Japanese in the last few meters Tomoru Honda, gold in 1’53″88. Bronze to the Austrian Martin Espernberger (1’55″16). For Italy it is the first podium ever in a world championship in this race, while for Razzetti it is the first world championship podium in his career. Gregorio Paltrinieri instead he won the bronze medal in the 800 freestyle. Leading the race from 350 to 700 metres, he was beaten by the Irishman Daniel Wiffen, gold in 7’40″94, and by the Australian Elijah Winnington, who burned him in the last meters by blowing his ™silver for just three cents. Seventh place for Luca De Tulliusthe other Italian in the final, who swam in 7’49″79. The Italian medal count currently shows two golds, eight silvers and two bronzes. Italy is fifth after China, Australia, the United States and the Netherlands.
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Both satisfaction and some regret in the statements of those who won the medal. “I’ve wanted to win the 50 for a few years, I’m always a few cents short, in the end I will become a billionaire…”, jokes Martinenghi. “I’m very happy, I made many mistakes, I didn’t get off to a great start and I didn’t have a perfect finish, but the 50m is like that, the perfect race never exists – he continued – I had one of the best races ever in the 50m, returning to do 26.30 gives me a lot of confidence. I have a bit of a bad taste in my mouth, I won’t deny it, we hope to go back to dreaming of gold in this race.” “I felt very good in the water, even before the race I had zero anxiety – he concluded – I was very happy”.
“It’s a shame, I was close to second place. Then it doesn’t make much difference to go second or third, I had seen that he (Winnington, ndr) was going up strong. I was a bit “dead” at the bottom, I lacked closure, but it was a good race,” she said Paltrinieri to the microphones of Rai Sport. “I don’t look too much at medals or medals no, I’m looking for real emotions, when I do races like this I get excited as if it were the first time – admitted the Italian – Once upon a time I would have been worse off, now I just want to feel that feeling. I feel truly alive when I leave like this, there’s so much more up for grabs. Something inside me snaps that is beautiful and that I try to rediscover race after race. Today I was looking for a good feeling and a good emotion“. Tomorrow the national team water polo male is played against Spain access to the final.