By Giusy Cisale on SwimSwam
The Italian Swimming Federation has formalised the national team that will compete at the 2024 Paris Olympics. The swimming events will take place at the La Defense Arena from 27 July to 4 August.
The Italian team is made up of veterans and rookies. Gregorio Paltrinieri, Sara Franceschi, and Margherita Panziera are the most experienced members of the team. Paltrineri has competed in four Olympic Games: London 2012, Rio 2016, Tokyo 2020 (1) and Paris 2024. Sara Franceschi and Margherita Panziera are in their third Olympic participation.
There are many freshmen, demonstrating the generational change and the strong rise of the age group categories to elite level. The youngest member of the team is Carlos D’Ambrosio, just 16 years old.
At the Tokyo Olympics, Italian swimming won seven medals: five silver and two bronze. Five of those were individual medals and two were relay medals
- Gregorio Paltrinieri men’s 800, freestyle, silver
- Gregorio Paltrinieri, men’s 10km open water, bronze
- Simona Quadarella women’s 800m freestyle, bronze
- Federico Burdisso men’s 200m fly, bronze
- Nicolo Martinenghi 1men’s 00m breast, bronze
- Men’s 4×100m freestyle relay (Thomas Ceccon, Santo Condorelli, Manuel Frigo, Alessandro Miressi, Lorenzo Zazzeri), silver
- Men’s 4×100m medley relay: (Federico Burdisso, Thomas Ceccon, Stefano Di Cola , Nicolò Martinenghi, Alessandro Miressi), bronze
This tied them for the fourth-most total medals, though with none of them being gold they ranked 14th in the traditional gold-silver-bronze sort.
MEN’S ROSTER
- Gregorio Paltrinieri 800/1500m freestyle (4th Olympics)
- Thomas Ceccon 100m backstroke (2nd Olympics)
- Alberto Razzetti , 200m fly, 200/400m IM (2nd Olympics)
- Alessandro Miressi 100m freestyle, men’s 400m freestyle relay (2nd Olympics)
- Nicolo Martinenghi 100 metres breasts (2nd Olympics)
- Lorenzo Zazzeri 50m freestyle (second Olympics)
- Leonardo Deplano 50/100 metres freestyle, Men’s 400m freestyle relay (1st Olympics)
- Manulel Frigo 400m freestyle relay (2nd Olympics)
- Filippo Megli 800 Freestyle Relay (2nd Olympics)
- Alessandro Ragaini 200-metre freestyle, men’s 800m freestyle relay (1st Olympics)
- Michele Lamberti – 100 metres backstroke (1st Olympics)
- Ludovico Viberti – 100 metres breaststroke (1st Olympics)
- Giacomo Carini – 200m butterfly (2nd Olympics)
- Luca De Tullio – 800/1500m freestyle (1st Olympics)
- Matteo Restivo 200m backstroke (2nd Olympics)
- Carlos D’Ambrosio 800m freestyle relay (1st Olympics)
- Paolo Conte Bonin 400m freestyle relay (1st Olympics)
- Giovanni Caserta 800 freestyle relay (1st Olympics)
- Matteo Lamberti 800m freestyle relay (1st Olympics)
- Marco De Tullio 800 freestyle relay (2nd Olympics)
WOMEN’S ROSTER
- Benedetta Pilato 100m breaststroke (2nd Olympics)
- Simona Quadarella 800/1500 metres freestyle (2nd Olympics)
- Sara Franceschi 400m IM (3rd Olympics)
- Lisa Angiolini 100m breaststroke (1st Olympics)
- Sara Curtis 50m freestyle (1st Olympics)
- Ginevra Taddeucci – 1500 m freestyle (1st Olympics)
- Viola Scotto di Carlo – 100m butterfly (1st Olympics)
- Margherita Panziera – 200m backstroke (3rd Olympics)
- Francesca Fangio – 200m breast (2nd Olympics)
- Costanza Cocconcelli 4×100 freestyle relay (1st Olympics)
- Chiara Tarantino 4×100 freestyle relay (1st Olympics)
- Giulia D’Innocenzo 4×200 freestyle relay (1st Olympics)
- Emma Virginia Menicucci 4×100 freestyle relay (1st Olympics)
- Sofia Morini 4×200 freestyle relay 1st Olympics
- Matilde Biagiotti 4×200 freestyle relay (1st Olympics)
- Giulia Ramatelli 4×200 freestyle relay, 1st Olympics
Note: Entries are based on events in which the Olympic Qualification time has been reached. Official event entries have not been released at the time of publication
RELAYS QUALIFIED FOR PARIS 2024
- men’s 4x100m Freestyle Relay
- women’s 4x100m Freestyle Relay
- women’s 4x200m Freestyle Relay
- men’s 4x200m Freestyle Relay
- men’s 4x100m Medley Relay
- women’s 4x100m Medley Relay
- mixed 4x100m Medley Relay
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