Swimmeeting Bozen: Four records on the first day of the competition

Marco Orsi started the record hunt. Italy's freestyle expert won the 100 m freestyle in an excellent 47,22 seconds, remaining just under a second above the Italian record. Orsi was the first person ever to stay under 48 seconds in Bolzano. “It was time for it,” said OC boss Christian Mattivi from SSV Bozen. US superstar Ryan Lochte (47,80) and the German Steffen Deibler (48,03) also remained below the five-year-old meeting record of the Croatian Mario Todorovic (48,09).

Natalie Coughlin was the favorite to win the women's 100m freestyle. The American, who has won twelve Olympic medals in her career, won in 53,51 but only a hundredth ahead of her compatriot Madison Kennedy (53,52). Erica Ferraioli was third in 53,68.

The second meeting record was set for the women in the 50 m breaststroke. Katie Meili won in 30,44 seconds and remained well below the previous Bozen record (Dorothea Brandt 30,96 in 2011). Local hero Lisa Fisseider took excellent third place. The 20-year-old, who has been training again in Bolzano since the start of the season, missed the World Cup limit for the Short Course World Championships in Doha in a month in a month by just 31,11 seconds in 0,7 seconds. Fabio Scozzoli won the men's event. In 26,80 seconds he was only 14 hundredths above the meeting record set by the Slovenian Emil Tahirovic five years ago.

In the 100 m backstroke, US superstar Ryan Lochte, who received the most applause, celebrated the only victory of the day in four starts. The exceptional overseas athlete, who has won eleven Olympic medals and 35 world titles in his only career, won in 51,34 seconds, 0,38 seconds faster than Arkady Vyatchanin. Lochte couldn't break the meeting record set by world record holder Nick Thoman (50,32).

In the women's 100 m backstroke, Britain's Jessica Fullalove won in 59,76 ahead of the two Italians Elena Gemo (1.00,21) and Carlott Zofkova (1.00,43). World record holder Steffen Deibler was the big attraction in the 50 m dolphin. In 23,12 he beat his meeting record from the previous year (23,26) and relegated Lochte to second place in 23,68. A great Silvia Di Pietro won the women's 50m dolphin in 26,15 seconds, just 0,45 seconds above the meeting record and 0,53 seconds above Italy (25,62). Di Pietro won ahead of Elena Di Liddo (26,54) and Amanda Weir (27,23).

The last individual race of the day over 100 m medley brought great emotions. Laura Letrari from Brixen couldn't hold back her tears after her outstanding race. In 1.00,11:59,21 she came second behind Katie Meili (1.00,18) and beat superstar Natalie Coughlin (0,3:100), but more importantly she remained just 53,04 seconds over the World Championship limit in Italy's best time of the season. In the men's race, Markus Deibler, Steffen's brother, won the 53,28 m individual medley in a new meeting record time of 53,31 seconds. He beat Gerhard Zandberg's Bozen record (53,35) and beat Lochte (XNUMX) and the strong Marco Orsi (XNUMX).

The second day of the South Tyrol Swim Meeting begins on Sunday at 14.30:XNUMX p.m.

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Swimmeeting Bozen: Four records on the first day of the competition

The world class kept its word and brought the spectators out of their seats in the Albert Pircher Hall at the Pfarrhof at the start of the 18th South Tyrol Swim Meeting. Four meeting records were broken on Saturday.

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