Laura Letrari's chance of winning a medal is alive

Before the race, Laura Letrari said that Italy's relay team could possibly be in the fight for bronze. After the preliminary run things even look a little bit better. Because the Danes, who seemed to be favored for gold and silver together with the Dutch, didn't get past eighth place - at the same time as the Poles. Unlike individual races, where there are elimination races for the last starting place if there is a tie, in the relay finale there will exceptionally be 9 teams at the start.

Italy's relay team swam very well in the morning and, with a total time of 3.38,64:34 minutes, came within 3.38,30 hundredths of a second of the Dutch women (0,49:0,84). It may be that some teams have rested their stars, but the “Azzurre”'s lead over the next-placed teams France (+ 2,64 seconds) and Russia (+ XNUMX) is considerable, and even huge over co-favorites Denmark (+ XNUMX).

Because of weakened Laura Letrari's performance made her forget that she was supposed to be weakened by a herniated disc. The woman from Brixen started third in her team and achieved a very good part-time time of 54,65 seconds. Only superstar Federica Pellegrini (53,73) and of the Dutch women only Femke Heemskerk (52.78) were faster than her.

Letrari & Co. will actually fight for medals in the final this evening at 19.01:XNUMX p.m. (CEST). “Azzurri” also strong in the other races On the first race day of the European Swimming Championships, the swimmers from Italy will also compete for precious metal in other races. The men's freestyle relay set the best time in the preliminary run (1:3.15,29 minutes), followed by Hungary (3.15,55:3.15,77) and Russia (400:XNUMX). Ilaria Cusinato and Carlotta Toni came third and eighth respectively in the women's XNUMX individual medley. The fastest was the Frenchwoman Fantine Lesaffre.

The Italian Simona Quadarella achieved the clear best time in the 800 meter freestyle, but this final will not take place until Saturday.

The best result of the morning was that of British breaststroke specialist Adam Peaty, who achieved a new European Championship record of 100 seconds in the 57,89m breaststroke.

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Laura Letrari's chance of winning a medal is alive

Italy's women's 4x100 m freestyle relay qualified for the evening final with the second best time at the European Swimming Championships in Glasgow on Friday morning. The second best of the “Azzurre” was Laura Letrari from Brixen.

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