Three victories for Laura Letrari in Merano – tomorrow Paltrinieri and Detti

The 28-year-old from Brixen, who competes for the army sports group and Bolzano Nuoto, beat Erika Petrosino (50) and Jasmine Alkhaldi from the Philippines (26,49) in the opening race of the 26,51 m freestyle in a weak 26,59 seconds. through. Things went better for Letrari in the 50 m backstroke. She won in 29,68. At the end of the first day of competition, Letrari also prevailed in the “Australian final” of the 50 m freestyle. In the fifth series of the elimination competition, she prevailed in the final of the last two swimmers in an encouraging time of 2 against training partner Alkhaldi (26,14), who, unlike Letrari, had already qualified for the World Championships in Budapest at the end of July bag has. Letrari wants to buy his World Cup ticket next week at the Sette Colli in Rome. Tomorrow Letrari will be competing in the 27,20 m individual medley in Meran, after which she will concentrate on the races in the Foro Italico.

Alkhaldi won the 50 m dolphin in Meran Lido this afternoon in 28,37 ahead of Ilaria Cusinato (28,53), who has been training with the Italian national team in Meran since Monday. In the men's 50 m dolphin race, almost as expected, the victory went to Andrea Vergani. The young Italian hope came second in the Italian Championships on this route in Riccione in April. Today Vergani prevailed in 24,77 ahead of Lroenzo Glessi (25,32). Glessi had no opponents in the 50 m backstroke and won comfortably in 26,81. There were South Tyrolean victories at the start in the 50 m breaststroke. Viviane Graif from SC Meran (33,71) and Davide Springhetti from Bolzano Nuoto (29,51), who recently trained in the USA, prevailed. Andrea Vergani won the exciting Australian men's final in 23,99 ahead of Mattia Zuin (24,17). Tobias Springeth from SSV Bozen set a new youth national record in the 26,38 m dolphin in 50 and beat Diamound Benetti's mark from 2008 by 0,06 seconds.

Tomorrow, Saturday, Olympic champion Gregorio Paltrinieri and two-time Olympic bronze medalist Gabiele Detti will also be seen in action for the first time. The two duel in the first competition of the day over 400 m freestyle. Paltrinieri will also swim the 400 m individual medley on Saturday, Detti the unusual 100 m dolphin. On Saturday (around 13 p.m.) there will be the eagerly awaited duel over 1500 m freestyle between the two exceptional swimmers from Italy.

The rest of the program

Saturday, June 17th – 10 a.m.: 400 m freestyle – 200 m individual medley – 100 m freestyle – 200 m dolphin – 4 x 50 m individual medley mixed

Saturday, June 17, 45 minutes after the end of the morning session: 400 m individual medley – 200 m freestyle – 200 m backstroke – 100 m dolphin – 4 x 50 m freestyle mixed

Sunday, June 18th – 8.45:XNUMX a.m.: 200 m freestyle – 100 m backstroke – 200 m breaststroke - 4 x 50 m individual medley

Sunday, June 18th – 45 minutes after the end of the morning session: 4 x 50 m freestyle – 800 m freestyle F – 1500 m freestyle M

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Three victories for Laura Letrari in Merano – tomorrow Paltrinieri and Detti

Laura Letrari celebrated three victories in three starts on the first day of the Cool Swim Meeting in Merano. On Saturday, Olympic champion Gregorio Paltrinieri and two-time Olympic bronze medalist Gabiele Detti will also be seen in action for the first time.

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