2025 ITALIAN CHAMPIONSHIPS
The penultimate evening of racing on the 2025 Italian Championships in Riccione guarantees to be one other thrilling one, with seven particular person finals on the schedule with World Championship qualifying spots on the road.
On this morning’s prelims, 18-year-old standout Sara Curtis broke the Italian File within the girls’s 50 freestyle, clocking 24.52 to knock 4 one-hundredths off her earlier mark set at this meet final 12 months.
Curtis, who has already punched her ticket to the 2025 Worlds in Singapore within the 100 free, will must be near her new greatest time within the ultimate, with the Italian qualifying customary within the 50 free sitting at 24.69.
Different names to observe tonight embody Alberto Razzetti and Federico Burdisso, who will go head-to-head within the 100 fly after Razzetti led the prelims in 52.18. Neither man has solidified World Championship qualification as of but.
Christian Bacico has an opportunity to brush the boys’s backstroke occasions after main the 200 again prelims in 1:59.08, whereas Italian File holder Filippo Megli leads the 200 free area into the ultimate after clocking 1:47.43 within the prelims.
For the ladies, Federica Toma holds the highest seed coming into the ultimate of the 100 again (1:01.20), whereas Paola Borrelli was quickest out of the 200 fly heats in 2:10.64.
MEN’S 100 FLY – FINAL
Podium:
Federico Burdisso, 51.83
Alberto Razzetti, 51.94
Gianmarco Sansone, 52.05
Federico Burdisso acquired out quick and held off Alberto Razzetti coming down the stretch to assert victory within the males’s 100 fly, producing a time of 51.83.
Burdisso turned in 24.08 on the 50, tied with Daniele Momoni for the lead, after which closed in 27.75, with Razzetti splitting 24.75/27.19 to realize important floor coming house, however ending simply over a tenth again in 51.94.
The efficiency ties the Tenth-fastest of Burdisso’s profession, inside putting distance of his 51.39 PB, and is his quickest since 2022, however nonetheless falls properly shy of the Worlds qualifying time of 51.29.
Razzetti’s robust back-half resulted in him breaking 52 seconds for the primary time, decreasing his earlier mark of 52.06 set on the 2024 Italian Championships final March.
Gianmarco Sansone, who represented Italy on this occasion on the 2024 Worlds, improved on his greatest time from Doha (52.15) by a tenth, touching in 52.05 for third.
Momoni held on for 4th in 52.08, simply 9 one-hundredths shy of his greatest time set final 12 months (51.99).
WOMEN’S 100 BACK – FINAL
Podium:
Anita Gastaldi, 1:00.46
Federica Toma, 1:00.58
Francesca Pasquino, 1:00.70
Anita Gastaldi set her first greatest time within the 100 again in precisely two years to earn victory within the first girls’s ‘A’ ultimate of the evening, holding off Federica Toma and touching first in 1:00.46.
Gastaldi, 21, cut up 29.55/30.91 en path to her time, bettering her earlier better of 1:00.92 set on this present day two years in the past (April 16, 2023).
Toma, the highest seed out of the prelims in 1:01.20, was the quickest swimmer on again 50, closing in 30.70 to almost run down Gastaldi, ending in 1:00.58 for 2nd. Toma owns a better of 1:00.10, set in July 2022.
Francesca Pasquino rounded out the highest three in 1:00.70, decreasing her earlier better of 1:00.86 set in November 2023.
MEN’S 200 BACK – FINAL
World File: 1:51.92, Aaron Peirsol (USA) – 2009
European File: 1:53.23, Evgeny Rylov (RUS) – 2021
Italian File: 1:56.29, Matteo Restivo – 2018
World Championship Qualifying Time: 1:56.29
Podium:
Christian Bacico, 1:57.70
Pietro Ruggero Ubertalli, 1:58.38
Daniele Del Signore, 1:59.32
WOMEN’S 200 FLY – FINAL
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MEN’S 200 BREAST – FINAL
World File: 2:05.48, Qin Haiyang (CHN) – 2023
European File: 2:05.85, Leon Marchand (FRA) – 2024
Italian File: 2:08.50, Loris Facci – 2009
World Championship Qualifying Time: 2:08.89
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WOMEN’S 50 FREE – FINAL
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MEN’S 200 FREE – FINAL
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