Because the countdown begins for the World Quick Course Swimming Championships in Hangzhou, China, from eleventh to sixteenth December, enviornment has recruited two rising stars of Italian swimming to its staff of champions: Alessandro Miressi, European 100m freestyle champion and Italian document holder (47.92), and Margherita Panziera, European 200m backstroke champion and Italian document holder (2:06.18). The athletes have signed three-year technical sponsorship contracts, which afford them enviornment’s best-in-class technical gear and trademark model assist of their coaching and competitors preparations.
Alessandro Miressi (GS Fiamme Oro [State Police Sports Group] / CN Turin), born in 1998 in Turin, is likely one of the new faces of Italian swimming.
After his first call-up as a 16-year-old to the nationwide youth staff for the Comen Cup in Netanya 2014, he went on the next 12 months to win two silver medals on the European Video games in Baku (100m freestyle, 4x100m freestyle relay). Later that 12 months at Singapore’s World Junior Championships he picked up a 4x100m freestyle relay bronze together with fifth place within the particular person 100m freestyle, regardless of being a 12 months youthful than most of his opponents. On the 2016 European Junior Championships in Hodmezovasarhely (Hungary), he gained his first main particular person gold medal, the 100m freestyle; on the similar time, he picked up even 4 medals within the relay, in addition to relay golds within the males’s and blended 4X100m relay.
2017 Budapest marked his first look in a World Championship last as a part of the 4x100m freestyle relay staff (together with Magnini, Dotto and Vendrame), however sadly the staff was disqualified for an irregular changeover. Undaunted, he continued working arduous with coach Antonio Satta, and on the 2017 Universiade (World College Video games) in Taipei he was a part of the silver medal 4x100m freestyle relay staff together with Zazzeri, Vendrame and Di Giorgio. He completed off the 12 months at Copenhagen’s European SC Championships with a silver within the 4x50m freestyle relay with teammates Luca Dotto, Lorenzo Zazzeri and Marco Orsi.
In 2018, his previous relay successes quickly translated into his signature particular person occasion, the 100m freestyle, at first the Mediterranean Video games in Tarragona, the place he gained silver, after which two months later on the European Championships in Glasgow, the place he swam a scintillating race to triumph in 48.01s, changing into the fifth Italian to win the title. Eight days later on the Italian Class Championships his progress took a quantum leap as he turned the primary Italian to interrupt 48 seconds within the 100m freestyle, touching the wall at 47.92s.
“I’m actually honored to hitch Crew enviornment,” stated Miressi. “Two years in the past I had the chance to turn out to be a part of the second version of Swim Your Finest, a expertise scouting mission created by enviornment in collaboration with the Italian Swimming Federation. That have helped rather a lot in each my skilled and private progress, and it’s enabled me to understand much more the significance of the position that enviornment now performs in supporting me on my journey. The European gold that created swimming headlines for me is a dream come true, however I’ll attempt to hold my toes on the bottom and proceed with my preparations, figuring out that I’ve the most effective assist doable.”
Margherita Panziera (GS Fiamme Oro [State Police Sports Group] /CC Aniene), born in Treviso in 1995, is the brand new Italian backstroke queen.
In 2013 on the age of 18, Margherita made her first worldwide look on the Mersin Mediterranean Video games, the place she gained gold within the 4x100m medley relay, a silver within the 200m backstroke and a bronze within the 100m backstroke. On the Italian Summer season Championships the next 12 months, she gained her first nationwide title within the 200m backstroke. After this promising begin to her profession, the next two years confirmed that she was nonetheless maturing as a aggressive swimmer. On the 2015 World Championships in Kazan, she didn’t progress past the 100m backstroke heats, and didn’t make the lower within the 200m backstroke semi-finals. In December of the identical 12 months, she did not reap any podium spoils on the European Quick Course Championships in Netanya (however she made the 200m backstroke last and 100m backstroke semi-finals), and in 2016 at on the Rio Olympics she missed qualifying for the 200m backstroke semi-finals by one place.
Higher focus and extra mature, targeted athletic preparation began yielding leads to 2017, with a 200m backstroke bronze at Copenhagen’s brief course Europeans, setting a brand new Italian document (2:02.43). Her rise continued in 2018 with 4 gold medals on the Mediterranean Video games in Tarragona (100m & 200m backstroke, 4x200m freestyle and 4x100m medley). She then took this kind into the Sette Colli Trophy, the place she turned the primary Italian girl to interrupt one minute within the 100m backstroke (59.80), and adopted this up by breaking Alessia Filippi’s nine-year-old nationwide 200m backstroke document with a time of two:07.16. A month later on the European Championships in Glasgow, she took her profession to a brand new stage with the 200m backstroke gold, setting new nationwide and championship data with a time of two:06.18. She additionally gained a bronze medal within the 4x100m blended medley relay.
“I’m actually completely happy to begin this collaboration with enviornment and I can’t wait to start this journey collectively,” stated Panziera. “For me as a swimmer, enviornment is a reference for model excellence, professionalism, experience and reliability. After my successes, significantly over this previous 12 months, it makes me proud to turn out to be a part of a staff the place ardour, enthusiasm and tenacity reign supreme. Understanding that I can depend on enviornment’s assist for the World Championships in Hangzhou offers me much more confidence and perception. I’m satisfied this alternative will solely profit my profession.”
Along with saying the entry of the 2 Italian freestyle and backstroke champions into the world staff, the three-diamond model can be renewing its assist of one other younger Italian champion by to 2021: breaststroker Nicolò Martinenghi.
Born in Varese in 1999 (GS Fiamme oro Roma [State Police Sports Group] / Brebbia Swimming Membership), Nicolò gained 50m & 100m breaststroke gold on the World Junior Championships in Indianapolis 2017. Working with coach Marco Giovanni Pedoja, their subsequent main goal is the 2019 World Championships in Gwangju, South Korea, from August ninth to twenty fifth.
Photograph credit score: Gian Mattia D’Alberto/Lapresse
