Saturday of records at the Cool Swim Meeting

There were also records on the second day at the Cool Swim Meeting in Meran. After the four event best times on Friday, the spectators in the Merano Lido applauded six more meeting records on Saturday. The great heat doesn't seem to bother the stars much. The big protagonist on the second day was the Brazilian Nathalia Almeida, who set two new records in 30 minutes. And the day ended with Laura Letrari winning the 100m freestyle.

At the beginning of the day, Almeida won the 200 m freestyle and became the first woman in Merano to stay under the 1.59,82-minute mark in 2:2.00,65 minutes. She obliterated Laura Letrari's meeting record (350) and collected prize money of 400 euros. Almeida barely had time to rest and half an hour later had to go into the water for the 4.45,57m individual medley. She again set a new meeting record and significantly beat Ilaria Cusinato's old record (4.48,26:200) in XNUMX:XNUMX minutes. “I'm never completely satisfied, unfortunately I couldn't take part in the World Cup, but these are two good times,” said the Brazilian, happy about another XNUMX euros in prize money.

Like on Friday, Maxim Lobanovszkij was also successful on Saturday. © Cool Swim Meetings

The Hungarian Maxim Lobanovszkij, who is foregoing a start at the home World Championships in Budapest this week and wants to win medals at the European Championships in Rome in August, also won the 50 m dolphin sprint today after the 50 m freestyle on Friday. In 24,07 seconds he was well below Stefano Razeto's old Merano record (24,74). “The 50 m Delfin is not my main race,” says Lobanovszkij, who is enthusiastic about the conditions and the beauty of Meran.

Pier Andrea Matteazzi also delivered a great race today, setting a personal best time of the season in the 400 m individual medley in 4.14,75:4.26,38 minutes and literally pulverizing Lorenzo Glessi's meeting record (XNUMX:XNUMX). “I never thought I would be able to swim for this amount of time. “The pool here in Meran seems to be really fast,” said Matteazzi.

Martina Cenci also set a record. © Cool Swim Meeting

There were two new meeting records today in the 200 m backstroke. Martina Cenci won the women's event in 2.14,87:2.18,62. She beat Sara Muzatsinda's previous record (2.04,97) by over three seconds and was pleased with her performance: "We're still under construction, so the times here in Meran are okay." Daniele took the men's top spot De Matteis beat Giulio Ciavarella's meeting record from the previous year (2.05,88:XNUMX) in XNUMX:XNUMX.

There was a surprise winner in the men's 200 m freestyle. Stefano Nicetto was able to push favorite Alessio Proietti Colonna (1.50,80) into second place in 1.50,82:50 minutes by two hundredths of a second. The victory of the Spanish Rosa Peris in the 27,23 m dolphin was at least as unexpected. In 27,28 she was able to intercept favorite Ilaria Bianchi (50). Irene Mati (32,67) and Luca Moni (28,27/same time with Andrea Savoca) won the 1500 m breaststroke and repeated Friday's success over twice the distance. Nicole Santulliana (16.58,92) and Ivan Giovannoni (15.26,51) were unbeatable in the XNUMX m freestyle.

The second day ended with the supreme discipline of the 100 m freestyle. And Laura Letrari showed her skills again at the end. In 46,68, she relegated the higher ranked and younger competitors Martina Cenci (57,43) and Alice Mizzau (57,46). “The other two are better than me, but I wanted to win this race,” said South Tyrol's best swimmer, who is about to end her career. In the men's race, Stefano Nicetto won the 200 m freestyle after the 100 m in 50,28. The competition continues on Sunday at 9.30:XNUMX a.m.

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Saturday of records at the Cool Swim Meeting

There were a total of six new personal bests on the second day of the Cool Swim Meeting in Meran - Nathalia Almeida was the protagonist. Laura Letrari won another category.

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