Strong times at Cool Swim Meeting

Two years after the World Championships in Budapest, where Gabriele Detti came 4th, the former world champion competed in the 1500 m freestyle on the long course for the first time on Saturday afternoon on the second day of the Cool Swim Meeting in Merano. For the 24-year-old, it was the last test before the World Championships in South Korea, where Detti will be one of the favorites to compete in the 400 and 800 m freestyle. At the end of the week-long training camp in Meran, Detti won the longest race in the pool in front of trainer Stefano Morini in 14.57,03:15,10 minutes. A time that surprised even the champion: “I was expecting a 1500, but I told Moro (coach Morini) before the start that I felt good today. I won't swim the 1500 m at the World Championships." The women also competed over 16.25,74 m for the first time in Merano. Alisia Tettamanzi (16.37,72) and Martina Caramignoli (XNUMX) from the Italian national long-distance team fought a lonely race at the front.

Letrari gets revenge After her 2 defeats on Friday in the 50 m freestyle against Giorgia Biondani, Laura Letrari achieved revenge on Saturday. The local hero from Brixen, who competes for the army sports group, won the 200 m freestyle in the morning in 2.03,71:2.04,41 minutes ahead of Martina Caramignoli (100:56,35), who started to catch up in the last meters. In the afternoon, Letrari also came first in the 1 m freestyle in 56,45 seconds. She intercepted Giorgia Biondani (2.03), who was long in front of her. “The 200 in the 100m freestyle is not the time I was hoping for, but it is better than the Sette Colli meeting in Rome,” said Letrari. “I also really wanted to win the XNUMX m. The Cool Meeting in Meran is not the most important competition of the year, but it is always nice to start at home. It gives me a good feeling for the rest of the summer season before the Italian Championships in Rome at the beginning of August." New meeting record There was a favorite victory in the men's 100 m freestyle. World Cup starter Manuel Frigo won with the new meeting record of 49,70 seconds and was the first swimmer in Merano to stay under the 50-second mark. Veteran Marco Orsi (50,39) had no chance against Frigo, who is traveling to Asia with the Italian national team in a few days. “This is a really good time a week after Sette Colli and it bodes well for the World Cup. In South Korea we want to reach the final in the 4 x 100 m freestyle relay and I want to at least beat my best time in the individual 100 m freestyle race,” said Frigo.

Mattia Zuin won the 200 m freestyle in the morning and was only four hundredths of a second below Gabriele Detti's 1.49,28 event record in 2017:1.50,77 minutes. He won ahead of Marco De Tullio (400:100), who took part in the 26,86 m freestyle at the World Championships will start. Ilaria Bianchi also put in a strong performance in the 26.38 m dolphin. Three weeks before the World Championships she stayed under the 27 second mark in 50 seconds - like at the Sette Colli in Rome (25,65). Paride Pipitone won the men's 25,67m dolphin in 25,94, narrowly ahead of Jacopo Fantinato (100) and Leonardo Valentini (1.04,03). Camilla Simicich set a meeting record in the 100 m backstroke in 57,95:XNUMX minutes. Mattia Alessandro was unbeatable in the men's XNUMX m backstroke in XNUMX. Home win and new national record Julia Berger was able to celebrate a home victory in the 200 m breaststroke. The SC Meran athlete also beat the previous event record in 2.37,84:2.18,93. Marco Zanetti also achieved this feat for the men in 200:2.21,02. There was a German victory in the women's 2.09,14 m individual medley by Julia Titze (2). Luca Amadei won the men's event in 4:50. The second day ended with a new national record in the relay. The quartet of boys from SSV Bozen remained 1.51,42 tenths below the old record in the 2 x XNUMX m individual medley in XNUMX:XNUMX minutes.

D The program from Sunday (from 9.30 a.m.):

50 back – 400 layers – 100 dolphin

Break 90 minutes

50 breaststroke – 200 backstroke – 800 freestyle – 4 x 50 freestyle

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Strong times at Cool Swim Meeting

Gabriele Detti was also unbeatable in the 1500m freestyle. And Laura Letrari from Brixen managed to get her revenge.

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