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She did progress through the rounds in the 100 very well so you're no doubt right.
 
In other news Australia has finally found a male backstroker with 16 year old Henry Allan going 24.88 and 53.73 at Australian Age Championships this week.
 

Italy finally has a proper freestyle sprinter.  No disrespect to Pellegrini but she was more of a mid distance freestyler stretching down to the 100.

Italian record in the morning (i.e. in heats) for Sara Curtis in the 50 m freestyle, 24.52. At this point I expect the time to be lowered in tonight's final

Italy finally has a proper freestyle sprinter.  No disrespect to Pellegrini but she was more of a mid distance freestyler stretching down to the 100.

And Pellegrini is gone on the 100!
 
Italian Record for Sara Curtis in the 100 free with 53.01

Sara Curtis improved her 100 free PB to 53.57 in the heats  

Sara Curtis improved her 100 free PB to 53.57 in the heats  

Spring Nationals, Day #2
 
sleepy and somehow disappointing day in Riccione...until the last individual race of the day, when the unthinkable happened: the next big thing in Italian swimming revealed herself well earlier than expected 
 
Alessandra Mao, in fact, despite being only 14 (not even sure she already turned 14, actually), won the National title over the women's 200m freestyle in 1.58.86 
 
given that she basically doesn't have a decent start nor turns and she's not doing any power training in the gym yet, I hope (and think) she has room to become a world star in the next few years
 
Today's other champions:
 
women's 50m back: Sara Curtis, 27.90
 
men's 50m fly: Lorenzo Gargani, 23.32
 
women's 100m fly: Costanza Cocconcelli, 58.04
 
men's 100m breastroke: Nicolò Martinenghi, 59.16 (world champ qualifying time...good to see the Olympic champion back on track, despite not in his best shape both mental and physical); in the same race, Ludovico Blu Art Viberti slept big time in the morning heats and was forced to swim in the B Final, which he won in 59.04 (but since he didn't do it in the A final, the time is not accepted as a world qualifier for now)
 
women's 200m breaststroke: Francesca Fangio, 2.23.67 (only 7/100 of a second outside the world champs qualifying time)
 
men's 100m back: Christian Bacico, 53.61

Spring Nationals, Day #1
 
men's 50m back: in Ceccon's absence, 2 youngsters dominated the field...Christian Bacico (2005) won the title and improved himself up to 24.83
Daniele Del Signore (2007) ended up in second place with 25.21
 
women's 800m free: always only Simona Quadarella...8.24.25 for her, just enough to win the title and earn herself the official ticket to the world champs next Summer
 
men's 200m fly: Alberto Razzetti easily won the race in 1.55.06 (only 7/100 outside the qualifying time), but he said he's not feeling well at all and he's worried about the next days and races
 
women's 100m breaststroke: the race of the championships in day #1. despite Benedetta Pilato gave up the final after a poor heat performance, we already have both world champs qualifiers: Anita Bottazzo won the title with a huge PB in 1.05.82, followed by Lisa Angiolini in 1.06.01. Arianna Castiglioni ended up in 3rd place and therefore she's gonna miss the world champs (at least in this race) despite a good 1.06.22
 
men's 400m free: Marco De Tullio easily won the race in 3.46.90. Summertime sadness (cit.) for a race that was always so successful for our Country and now it's one of the poorest
 
women's 400m IM: Anna Pirovano won in 4.40.77, which is her PB, but also a depressing time considered that she was just a few tenths of a second outside the old NR at the 300m mark and finished almost 7 seconds shy of said record (still held by Alessia Filippi since Beijing 2008)
 
men's 50m free: Leonardo Deplano destroyed the field, took the title home and earned the official ticket to Singapore with 21.62. all the remaining swimmers were above the 22" mark.
 
finally, in the women's club 4*100m relay, Sara Curtis swum her new PB over the distance in the first leg, she improved by half a second up to 53.72 (and she could have gone faster, if didn't "die" in the last 5/10 meters)
if she can repeat herself in the final of the individual race, this would be a qualifying time for the world champs

75.56 IN ROUND 4 FOR MYKOLAS . 

74,89 WORLD RECORD FOR ALEKNA IN ROUND 1 

He improved it to 65.11! He previously had 64.90 as the NR and U23NR, now he improved both records!

Having a bit difficult to take the Oklahama discus throws seriously. 

Finally! Oh my that was about time  

Biedermann's super-suited world record is gone! 
 
Lukas Märtens Throws Down 3:39.96 WORLD RECORD In 400 Free, Breaking 2009 Super-Suited Mark

It's Australian Nationals that Ceccon will be competing at where he'll be allowed in the A Final. Trials aren't until June.
 
I'm quite excited to see what times he puts up and hope he doesn't scratch any events from his huge program (100/200 FR, 50/100/200 BK, 50/100 FL).

Mizuki Hirai  clocked 55.10 in the short course 100 butterfly at a domestic meet to set an Asian record and world junior record 

Summer joined the sub 8:10 club in the 800 free! Would love to see a showdown with Ledecky in Singapore.
 

AND THEY FAILED TO HAVE A PROPER LIVESTREAM FOR THIS 

David Popovici set a personal and national best of 21.83 in 50m freestyle at the Romanian National Championship, becoming the first man in history under 22, 47 and 1:43 . He'll probably be aiming for the 50-100-200m freestyle triple in LA.

Wonderful news for Sarah Sjöström! 50 fly becomes olympic!

oh, thanks!
I missed the detail 
and I also hope he's gonna swim all of his program, even if the news about the 50m events being added to the Olympic schedule might mean the end of any attempt to swim a 200m competition for Thomas...I think (fear) now he would focus only on the 50/100m back, fly and 100m free (only because of the relays)