Parts of the Italian national team are already training in South Tyrol.

The first swimming stars arrive in Merano

When the first athletes of the Italian national swimming team swim their training laps at the Merano Lido, the Cool Swim Meeting is not far away. Everything is already in place for the ninth edition of the highlight of the South Tyrolean swimming summer. From Friday to Sunday, it promises to be an extraordinary event with unprecedented numbers of participants.

June 16, 2025

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Seven members of the Italian national team arrived on Sunday: Manuel Frigo, Paolo Conte Bonin, Giovanni Carraro, Davide Dalla Costa, Giovanni Caserta, Lorenzo Mora and Luca Serio, who train daily in Merano under the guidance of coach Claudio Rossetto and will be in the water this weekend alongside all the other big names, starting with Olympic champion Thomas Ceccon, who will once again be the big star of the meeting this year.

The organizing committee, consisting of the city's two swimming clubs (AS Merano and Sportclub Merano) under the leadership of Walter Taranto, is presenting record numbers. 938 registered athletes are an unprecedented number for the three-day event at the Lido.

Scampicchio is the local hero

65 clubs from Austria, Switzerland, Germany, Brazil, the United States and of course Italy are taking part.

The Merano Lido will be bustling. © Giorgio Scala / Giorgio Scala / Deepbluemedia / Insidefoto

No fewer than ten regional teams (Veneto, Tuscany, Piedmont, Liguria, Basilicata, Emilia Romagna, Trentino, Lazio, Lombardy) have registered, and for the first time, South Tyrol is also represented by an independent team, led by Luca Scampicchio, the 18-year-old from SSV Bozen, who will take part in the European Youth Championships in Slovakia at the beginning of July.

Live on TV

A major novelty of this edition: there will be three live TV broadcasts on Rai Sport to cover the fast-paced series on Friday from 17 p.m. to 18.30:16 p.m., on Saturday from 17.45 p.m. to 15:16.30 p.m. and on Sunday from XNUMX p.m. to XNUMX:XNUMX p.m.