Cool Swim Meeting: The records collapse on the last day

Marco De Tullio, Ilaria Bianchi, Fabio Scozzoli and Martina Carraro set further meeting records and thrilled the spectators just three weeks before the World Championships in South Korea (July 3st to 21th), the big highlight of the season a year before the Olympics.

Former world champion Bianchi, who had only qualified for the World Cup at the Sette-Colli meeting the weekend before in Rome, also set hers after setting the meeting record on Saturday in the 50 m Delfin on Saturday (26,86). Favorite distance over 100 m Delfin set a new event record. In 59,74 she became the first woman in Meran to stay under a minute. “This is not a worthy time for me, but there are still two and a half weeks until the World Cup. That's why I was happy that I had another race today. Merano was the last competition before the World Cup. It is wonderful here. Swimming in the middle of the mountains doesn’t happen too often,” said Bianchi after her races.

Marco De Tullio is enthusiastic about Meran. © ANDREA GIANCOTTI

Marco De Tullio is also enthusiastic about Meran. “We have been here at the training camp since Monday, the city is beautiful and the pool in the Lido is wonderful,” said Italy’s swimming hope of the future. The 2018 vice-junior world champion will be competing in the 400 m freestyle in Gwangju. “It’s completely different, junior competitions are one thing. Above all, I want to gain experience at my first World Championships,” says De Tullio, who won the 100 m dolphin in Meran on Sunday morning with the new meeting record of 55,02 seconds and also won the 800 m freestyle in the afternoon managed to stay under eight minutes in 7.57,81:XNUMX minutes. Stars have fulfilled expectations in Merano In the women's race, Martina Rita Caramignoli took victory with a new meeting record of 8.46,62:2018 minutes. She also completed a one-week training camp with the Italian national long-distance team in the Passerstadt, although she has not been training in Ostia since XNUMX, but with Germano Proietti in Rome.

The World Cup starters Fabio Scozzoli and Martina Carraro also met expectations in Meran. Shortly before the World Championships, after setting meeting records on Friday in the 100 m breaststroke, they set new Meran best performances in the 50 m breaststroke on Sunday afternoon. Scozzoli won in 27,75 seconds in an exciting duel with Andrea Toniato (28,04), but was not entirely satisfied: "That's not a particularly good time, I've been struggling to be fast lately." His girlfriend Carraro was in 30,81 a class of its own and also satisfied: “It was important to stay under 31 seconds after the hard training in the last few days.” A total of 20 meeting records Sunday started with victories by Camilla Simicich (30,48) and Mattia Alessandro (27,51) in the 50 m backstroke. Nicole Santuliana (400) and Andrea Filadelli (5.03,45) won the 4.36,81 m individual medley. The 200m backstroke in the afternoon also started with new meeting records from Sara Muzatsinda (2.18,62) and Mattia Alessandro (2.06,52). Alessandro had already set a new event best time in the 100 m backstroke on Saturday.

In the 34 individual races over the three days there were a total of 20 new meeting records. This is not the only reason why the organizing committee, headed by OK boss Walter Taranto, was able to draw a satisfied conclusion. Over 500 participants with over 2300 starts set a new record at the fourth edition of the international meeting.

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Cool Swim Meeting: The records collapse on the last day

The stars of the Italian national swimming team also provided brilliant performances on the third and final day of the 4th Cool Swim Meeting in Meran.

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