Gold, gold and more gold

First up was Margherita Panziera (2.07,13:200 minutes) in the 2,13-meter backstroke. She relegated Katie Shanahan from Great Britain (+2,60 seconds) and the Hungarian Dora Molnar (+50 seconds) to the remaining podium places and took the European Championship victory in an outstanding manner. Just a little later, a similar picture emerged in the men's 22,08-meter butterfly: gold for Italy. Thomas Ceccon (0,08 seconds) took victory over the short distance, narrowly ahead of Maxime Grousset from France (+0,18 seconds) and the Portuguese Diogo Matos Ribeiro (+XNUMX seconds).

And it didn't want to end. There was even a double victory for the host country in the 100-meter breaststroke. Nicolo Martinenghi (58,26 seconds) took gold, 0,72 seconds ahead of his compatriot Federico Poggio. Andrius Sidlauskas (+1,24) from Lithuania completed the podium. Lisa Angiolini also won a bronze medal in the 100-meter breaststroke. With a time of 1.06,85:0,44 minutes, she was only XNUMX seconds behind the winner Ruta Meilutyte from Lithuania. Silver went to Kotryna Teterevkova, also from Lithuania.

Simona Quadarella beamed with her gold medal. © APA/afp / FILIPPO MONTEFORTE

But it wasn't over yet, because Alessandro Miressi also won silver in the 100-meter freestyle, only being beaten by Kristof Milak (47,76 seconds) from Hungary. Simona Quadarella won another gold medal for Italy in the 800-meter freestyle (8.20,54:1,47 minutes), trailing Isabel Marie Gose from Germany (+3,79 seconds) and Turkey's Merve Tüncel (+4 seconds). Italy achieved a final highlight at the end with the silver medal in the men's 100x1,88 meter mixed relay by Thomas Ceccon, Nicolo Martinenghi, Elena di Liddo and Silvia di Pietro. They only had to admit defeat to the Netherlands, XNUMX seconds behind. Bronze went to Great Britain.

The Italian Giorgio Minisini also celebrated his gold medal in the individual synchronized swimming event. With 85,7033 points, the Roman native beat Fernando Diaz (79,4951) from Spain in the technical freestyle. Bronze went to Ivan Martinovic (58,8834) from Serbia.

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Gold, gold and more gold

The Azzurri's successes at the European Swimming Championships in Rome continue. The Azzurri won a total of 5 gold medals on Friday.

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