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2022 Italian Spring Nationals

 

best of Day #4

 

basically, an off day...no truly remarkable clockings nor individual qualfying times for the upcoming World Champs were registered today in Riccione...

the most exciting thing was an electric blackout that caused a 30-min break in the middle of the final session...:facepalm:

 

however, here are today's champions:

 

men's 100 Fly: 1.Piero Codia, 51.65

 

women's 100m Backstroke: 1.Margherita Panziera, 1.00.25

 

men's 200m Backstroke: 1.Matteo Restivo, 1.57.56

 

women's 200m Fly: 1.Ilaria Cusinato, 2.10.36

 

men's 200m Breastroke: 1.Luca Pizzini, 2.10.98

 

women's 50m Freestyle: 1.Silvia Di Pietro, 25.10 (24.97 in prelims)

 

men's 200m Freestyle: 1.Marco De Tullio, 1.46.26; 2.Gabriele Detti, 1.47.50; 3.Stefano Di Cola, 1.47.55; 4.Stefano Ballo, 1.47.75 (all together, it's a qualfying standard for the World Champs for the men's 4*200m Free Relay)

B-Final: 1.Lorenzo Galossi, 1.48.26 (new Junior NR)

 

p.s. based on the results of all the 100m races of the single disciplines, also both the women and the men's 4*100m Mixed Relays and the 4*100m Mixed Medley Relay are officially qualified to the World Champs...

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11 hours ago, phelps said:

unfortunately, it's not only 50/100m, it's the whole freestyle sector that's miles behind the world's excellence (Quadarella is just an exception to this "rule")...

 

for what concerns the sprinters, however, there are a few historical, technical and cultural issues to prevent Italy being a good Nation in those disciplines...

 

I don't know why? but we've always refused the idea of building up poweful swimmers, we normally care a lot about the technical skills and about the amount of kilometers swimmed by our athletes, but somehow we're always behind the rest of the world when it comes to develop strencht and power...

 

especially among the girls and especially the very young girls, there's always the scare to ask them to put on muscles, we normally refuse to send them in the gym lifting weights until they're at least 16/17 years old, as if it was a risk for their health* (many doctors refuse to give permission to the youngsters to lift the necessary amount of weights...and if you don't build muscles, there's no chance to be competitive in the sprint events -if you notice, Italian swimmers are usually also always poor at the start and in the turns, 2 more aspects of the game where power is really important)...

 

therefore, we have quite a good tradition over the middle and long distances, rather than the shorter ones...and if that's true among the men, imagine how bigger an issue it is among the women...

 

*actually, many gorls refuse also by themselves to push beyond certain limits because they don't want to sacrify their femininity (here in Italy, women with strong muscles = no beautiful females for most people and for the average media...we still live in the myth of the most famous models rather than the TV starlettes, the athletes are rarely seen as role models)...

That's a shame because it kills many of your relay chances and now Pellegrini has retired it's even worse. Hopefully sometime in the future Italy can move past those body image issues.

 

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2022 Italian Spring Nationals

 

best of Day #5

 

last day of the Championships with 4 more World Champs passes earned by the Italian swimmers...

 

today's champions:

 

women's 50m Breastroke: 1.Benedetta Pilato, 29.85 (World Champs qualifying time; 29.58 in prelims)

 

men's 50m Breastroke: 1.Niccolò Martinenghi, 26.49 (World Champs qualifying time; Peaty went 26.91 at the British Nationals); 2.Simone Cerasuolo, 26.85 (= Cadet* NR and World Champs qualifying time)

 

women's 400m Freestyle: 1.Simona Quadarella, 4.08.95

 

men's 400m IM: 1.Alberto Razzetti, 4.13.83

 

women's 200m Backstroke: 1.Margherita Panziera, 2.08.63

 

men's 1500m Freestyle: 1.Gregorio Paltrinieri, 14.44.39 (World Champs qualifying time)

 

women's 50m Fly: 1.Silvia Di Pietro, 26.08

 

*in the Italian Swimming classes, Cadets are just older than Juniors (so, 19 & 20 years old athletes among the males and 17 & 18 years old athletes among the females)...

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The Lithuanian national championships were held between April 19th-22nd

 

A nice amount of EJCH and EYOF qualifying times were reached and quite a few Lithuanian NR's and age group NR's were broken.

 

The most important race although was the 100m women's breaststroke, where Rūta Meilutytė finished 2nd with a 1.07.07, behind Teterevkova's 1:07.01

 

This time was enough, and it's likely that Rūta's comeback is in full force, since she has a 50,100m Breaststroke qualifying mark for both the World and European Championships.

 

World Championships A marks:

Danas Rapšys - 200m, 400m Freestyle

Rūta Meilutytė - 50m, 100m Breaststroke

Kotryna Teterevkova - 50m, 100m, 200m, Breaststroke

Andrius Šidlauskas - 100m, 200m, Breaststroke

 

World Championships B marks:

Rūta Meilutytė - 50m Freestyle

Silvija Statkevičius - 800m Freestyle

Edvinas Česnakas - 50m, 100m Backstroke

Andrius Šidlauskas - 50m Breaststroke, 200m Medley

Tomas Navikonis - 100m, 200m, 400m Freestyle

Aleksas Savickas - 100m, 200m Breaststroke

Kajus Stankevičius - 200m Backstroke

Erikas Grigaitis - 200m Backstroke

Deividas Margevičius - 100m Butterfly

Agnė Šeleikaitė - 50m Breaststroke

Daniil Pancerevas - 100m Freestyle

 

 

EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS

Danas Rapšys - 200m, 400m Freestyle

Silvija Statkevičius - 800m Freestyle

Kotryna Teterevkova - 100m, 200m Breaststroke

Rūta Meilutytė - 100m Breaststroke

Andrius Šidlauskas - 100m, 200m Breaststroke

 

EUROPEAN JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS

Smiltė Plytnykaitė - 50m, 100m Freestyle, 200m Medley

Daniil Pancerevas - 100m Freestyle, 200m Medley, 4x100m Freestyle, 4x200m Freestyle

Silvija Statkevičius - 200m, 400m, 800m Freestyle

Patricija Geriksonaitė - 200m Backstroke

Kajus Stankevičius - 200m Backstroke

Rokas Jazdauskas - 4x100m Freestyle, 4x200m Freestyle

Danielis Kvederis - 4x100m Freestyle, 4x200m Freestyle

Kirilas Stepanovas - 4x100m Freestyle

Tomas Lukminas - 4x200m Freestyle

 

EUROPEAN YOUTH OLYMPIC FESTIVAL

Smiltė Plytnykaitė - 50m, 100m, 200m Freestyle, 100m Breaststroke, 200m Medley

Silvija Statkevičius - 200m, 400m, 800m Freestyle

Karilė Ališauskaitė - 100m, 200m Breaststroke

Guoda Stančikaitė - 100m Breaststroke

Patricija Geriksonaitė - 100m, 200m Backstroke

Rusnė Vasiliauskaitė - 200m Backstroke

Augustė Jakštaitė - 200m Backstroke

Mantas Kaušpėdas - 100m Backstroke

Kristupas Trepočka - 100m Butterfly

Erika Pašakinskaitė - 100m, 200m Butterfly???

Vytė Gelažytė - 400m Medley

Guoda Tručinskaitė - 400m Medley

 

Of course, I think we'll look for more ways to nominate as many athletes as we can, so this list is very subject to change. 

 

 

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