2024 SETTE COLLI TROPHY
The 2024 Sette Colli Trophy kicked off as we speak from Rome, with practically 900 athletes representing 52 nations racing within the Foro Italico Swimming Stadium in Rome, Italy.
We’ll see rivals from the host nation, Brazil, Japan, the Netherlands, Poland and extra because the competitors represents each a tune-up alternative and a last-chance qualification meet for subsequent month’s Olympic Video games.
The Italian swimmers already certified for Paris are listed on the backside of this submit, as are the Italian Swimming Federation-mandated Olympic Qualification Instances wanted.
Day 1 Prelims
Performers wasted no time bringing the warmth this morning, together with within the males’s 400m free the place a powerful 9 swimmers already notched outings beneath the three:50 barrier.
Main the cost was two-time World Championships gold medalist Daniel Wiffen, with the 22-year-old producing a cool 3:48.42 to land lane 4.
Guilherme Costa, the Brazilian who positioned 4th on this occasion in Doha, nabbed the 2nd seed in 3:48.46 whereas Italy’s Matteo Lamberti was additionally among the many high 3 in 3:48.78.
Lamberti is looking for his first 2024 Olympic berth and can have to be within the 3:44-range to make it occur. The 25-year-old owns a lifetime finest of three:46.03 from 2023 so he’ll must put up the swim of his life on this night’s finals to perform the feat.
Belgian nationwide document holder Lucas Henveaux (3:49.38) lurks because the sixth seed in 3:49.38 whereas Olympic medalist Gabriele Detti missed the A-Ultimate, putting ninth in 3:49.73.
The ladies’s 200m free area was initially set to incorporate Olympic champions Katinka Hosszu of Hungary and Penny Oleksiak of Canada, together with Dutch ace Marrit Steenbergen however all 3 opted out of the heats.
As an alternative, it was Canada’s quickly bettering Mary-Sophie Harvey who stole the present, clocking a morning swim of 1:57.64. That represented the only efficiency of the sector beneath 1:58 as a stable follow-up to the huge 1:55.44 she logged at this yr’s Canadian Trials to qualify for Paris.
British 400m IM world champion Freya Colbert collected the 2nd seed in 1:58.12, joined by teammates Abbie Wooden and Freya Anderson who earned the 4th and fifth seeds in respective efforts of 1:58.85 and 1:58.87.
Sitting because the third seed, nevertheless, is Hong Kong dynamo and two-time Olympic silver medalist Siobhan Haughey. The previous College of Michigan Wolverine notched 1:58.25 however has already been as quick as 1:54.08 this season to rank 4th on the planet.
In one other head-turning prelim, a large 7 male swimmers dipped beneath the minute barrier within the 100m breaststroke dash.
Italy’s Ludovico Viberti was the quickest, producing an AM effort of 59.48, a outcome simply .10 outdoors of his best-ever efficiency from final yr.
British champion and present world document holder Adam Peaty was proper behind in 59.54 for a powerful swim whereas Federico Poggio clocked 59.55 because the third seed. Poggio has been as quick as 58.73 on this profession to rank because the #2 Italian performer in historical past.
Further finalists included Dutch teammates Caspar Corbeau (59.65) and Arno Kamminga (59.75) whereas Italian nationwide document holder Nicolo Martinenghi lurks because the fifth seed in 59.73.
After firing off a mark of fifty.94 simply final week on the Dutch Lengthy Course Championships, 25-year-old Nyls Korstanje of the Netherlands ripped a time of 51.14 to come back inside placing distance of that outcome within the males’s 100m fly.
Korstanje at the moment holds over a one-second benefit on the sector, with Eire’s Max McCusker notching 52.38 because the 2nd seed out of this morning’s heats. McCusker posted the present nationwide document of 51.90 at Could’s Irish Championships.
Chad Le Clos of South Africa, Kazakhstan’s Adilbek Mussin, and Italy’s Piero Codia all tied for eighth in 52.48 so we’ll most certainly see a swim-off to safe the ultimate slot for tonight’s fundamental occasion.
Further Notes
- Michele Lamberti turned in a time of 54.17 to guide the boys’s 100m backstroke pack, however countryman and reigning world document holder Thomas Ceccon was proper behind in 54.41. Jonny Marshall, who represents Nice Britain internationally however can be a Florida Gator, claimed the sixth seed in 55.07.
- Dutch teammates Maaike de Waard and Kira Toussaint landed the first and 2nd seed within the ladies’s 50m again. The previous touched in 28.26 to the latter’s 28.32.
- Swedish famous person Sarah Sjostrom logged a time of 25.22 within the ladies’s 50m fly to take the highest spot. Rikako Ikee of Japan was subsequent in 25.54 whereas Italy’s Viola Scotto di Carlo rounded out the highest 3 performers on this non-Olympic occasion in 26.99. Sjostrom’s season-best is a world-leading 24.63 from the World Championships.
- The lads’s 50m free was void of any sub-22-second outcomes, as newly-minted Dutch competitor Renzo Tjon-a-Joe, previously of Suriname, notched the highest lead to 22.13. Brazil’s Gui Caribe and the Netherlands’ Kenzo Simons tied for 2nd in 22.16 for this night’s last.
Athletes certified for the 2024 Paris Olympics
Gregorio Paltrinieri within the 1500m and 800m freestyle
Alberto Razzetti within the 200m, 400m medley and 200m butterfly
Thomas Ceccon within the 100m backstroke
Benedetta Pilato within the 100m breaststroke
Alessandro Miressi within the 100m freestyle
Nicolò Martinenghi within the 100m breaststroke
Simona Quadarella within the 1500 and 800 freestyle
Manuel Frigo 4×100 freestyle
Lorenzo Zazzeri within the 50 freestyle
Sara Franceschi within the 400 medley
Lisa Angiolini within the 100 breaststroke
Leonardo Deplano within the 50 and 100 freestyle and within the 4×100 freestyle
Filippo Megli 4×200 freestyle
Sara Curtis 50 freestyle
Alessandro Ragaini 200 freestyle
Relays certified for the 2024 Paris Olympics
4×100 freestyle mas
4×100 freestyle feminine
4×100 blended blended
4×200 freestyle feminine
4×200 freestyle mas
4×100 freestyle blended mas
4×100 blended feminine
