Bolzano's young talent triumphs at the national swimming championships

The VSS/Raiffeisen State Swimming Championships were held for the 47th time this year. VSS speaker Klaus Fissneider was able to welcome more than 240 swimmers from all parts of the country to the Merano Lido.

The most successful swimmers once again came from SSV Bozen. They won 23 of 38 possible individual national championship titles, plus four triumphs in a total of six relay decisions. In the end, the people of Bolzano scored an outstanding 397 points and were around 140 points ahead of the second-placed swimmers from SC Meran. The athletes from Bressanone Nuoto secured third place with 159 points.

Seven swimmers were able to celebrate two VSS/Raiffeisen individual national championship titles in Merano. Mia Moldovan (children's category), Arianna Tava and Fabio Splendore (both student A), Annie Didanovic and Tobias Springeth (both youth) were all double successful for SSV Bozen. Dena Bacher from Bressanone Nuoto (Student B) and Sonja Profaizer from SC Meran won two gold medals in the general category. In the relay competitions there were four day victories for SSV Bozen and one victory each for SC Meran and SSV Bruneck.

The VSS/Raiffeisen national swimming champions 2017 at a glance:

Category children: 50m freestyle: Mia Moldovan (SSV Bozen) and Paul Oberrauch (SSV Leifers) 50m breaststroke: Mia Moldovan (SSV Bozen) and Alex Zorzi (SC Meran) 50m backstroke: Nadja Bernhard (SSV Leifers) and Mark Goldin (SSV Bozen)

Category student B: 50m freestyle: Dena Bacher (Bressanone Nuoto) and Nicolaus Mayr (SSV Bozen) 50m breaststroke: Ariel Straudi (SSV Bruneck) and Lorenzo Benedetti (SSV Bozen) 50m backstroke: Anna Tribenga (SSV Bozen) and Nicolas Mayr (SSV Bozen) 50m dolphin: Dena Bacher (Bressanone Nuoto) and Maximilian Tasser (SSV Bolzano)

Category Student A: 50m freestyle: Arianna Tava (SSV Bozen) and Fabio Splendore (SSV Bozen) 50m breaststroke: Samantha Ortler (SSV Bozen) and Thomas Caser (SC Meran) 50m backstroke: Arianna Tava (SSV Bozen) and Alex Tribenga (SSV Bozen) 50m dolphin: Irene Dona (SSV Bozen) and Fabio Splendore (SSV Bozen)

Youth category: 50m freestyle: Annie Didanovic (SSV Bozen) and Michel Bertagnolli (SC Meran) 50m breaststroke: Julia Berger (SC Meran) and Tobias Springeth (SSV Bozen) 50m backstroke: Lena Goeller (SSV Bozen) and David Garber Fent (SC Meran) 50m dolphin: Annie Didanovic (SSV Bozen) and Tobias Springeth (SSV Bozen)

General category: 50m freestyle: Sonja Profaizer (SC Meran) and Stefan Bettin (SSV Bozen) 50m breaststroke: Viviane Greif (SC Meran) and Christoph Gamper (SC Meran) 50m backstroke: Sonja Profazier (SC Meran) and Daniel Donola (SSV Bozen) 50m dolphin: Magdalena Knapp (SSV Bozen) and Christoph Gamper (SC Meran) Relays (4x50m medley): Children/Student B female: SSV Bruneck Children/students B male or mixed relays: SSV Bozen Student A female: SSV Bozen Student A male: SSV Bozen General class female: SC Meran General class male: SSV Bozen

Club ranking: SSV Bozen (397 points) SC Meran (258 points) Bressanone Nuoto (159 points) SSV Laives (115 points) SSV Bruneck (70 points) Val Gardena Swimming Club (15 points) SC Vinschgau (12 points)

The complete results are attached below.

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Bolzano's young talent triumphs at the national swimming championships

The young swimmers of SSV Bozen were once again the big winners of the national swimming championships that took place on Saturday in the Merano Lido.

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