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World swimming championships, Martinenghi gold in the 100 breaststroke

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World swimming championships, Martinenghi gold in the 100 breaststroke

The Varese-born triumphs in the final and also makes the Italian record his own. It is the first blue gold in this specialty. “A hallucinating emotion,” says Tete hot

by our correspondent Stefano Arcobelli

Nicolò Martinenghi king of the world. “I made my dream come true” he said still out of breath as he exited the end of the 100 frog in 58 “26, two cents better than the previous staff. What a triumph in ease for Tete: he is the spectacle of the frog, this 22-year-old from Varese. years, the first Italian in history on the highest podium in 58 “26 after a detachment at 0.61 and after turning second in 27” 39 against the 27 “14 of the American Nic Fink, then third in 58” 65. of the Dutch Arno Kamminga (58 “62), as at the Tokyo Games, where the blue was bronze and where the British Adam Peaty who was absent here with a broken foot had won.

historical medal

A marvelous gold that the other three great ones of the blue frog, Gianni Minervini, Domenico Fuoravanti and Fabio Scozzoli had touched in the past.

the word

Tete’s first words after the triumph embellished by the Italian record: “I don’t know, it’s very strange. I’m very happy on one side and less happy on the other. I’m not happy with the weather, before leaving we said with Marco that this it was a race to win. A hallucinating emotion, in the end I manage to put my hand in front for the first time in my first world final. It is my first medal in a long course World Championship. I couldn’t ask for more than that. “

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