2024 SETTE COLLI TROPHY
Day 2 of the 2024 Sette Colli Trophy continued to carry us swims from a cluster of high-profile expertise from all over the world, together with Sweden’s Sarah Sjostrom, Japan’s Rikako Ikee and Nice Britain’s Matt Richards.
For Italy specifically, this competitors represents a last-chance alternative for swimmers to qualify for subsequent month’s Olympic Video games.
The ladies’s 100m fly prelim introduced the warmth, with the highest 10 finishers all dipping underneath the minute barrier.
Main the best way was 23-year-old Ikee who notched 58.03 as the highest performer.
She’ll be chased by Sweden’s Louise Hansson and Italy’s Costanza Cocconcelli who have been subsequent in line because the respective 2nd and Third seeds. The previous touched in 58.30 to the latter’s 59.00.
At this level, no Italian lady has certified for the 100m fly so Cocconcelli can be amongst these attempting to fill this hole. The 22-year-old earned a time of 57.77 at March’s Italian Championships however the Italian Swimming Federation had set its qualification commonplace at 57.49.
If Cocconcelli can repeat that caliber of efficiency, she’ll have the ability to clear the World Aquatics Olympic Qualification Time of 57.92 which now serves because the barrier the federation has set for this competitors.
Olympic medalist Federico Burdisso of Italy is in the identical boat, looking for Paris qualification within the males’s 200m fly.
The previous Northwestern swimmer produced a morning outing of 1:57.39 to land lane 4 forward of teammate Giacomo Carini. Carini clocked 1:57.99 whereas Alberto Razzetti hit 1:59.28 because the 4th seed.
Brazil’s Nicolas Albiero is within the combine with an AM swim of 1:58.24. Each Razzetti and Albiero have already punched their Paris tickets on this males’s 2fly occasion.
One other athlete in scorching pursuit of particular person Olympic qualification is 35-year-old new mother Katinka Hosszu.
Hosszzu of Hungary, an Olympic multi-gold medalist, turned in a time of 4:42.97 to seize the 2nd seed on this morning’s 400m IM heats.
That trailed reigning world champion Freya Colbert of Nice Britain who posted 4:41.00 as the highest performer.
Hosszu was unable to realize Olympic Qualification Occasions in her occasions at Hungarian Nationals so she is utilizing this competitors as a last-chance meet. She’ll have to hit the OQT of 4:38.53 in tonight’s closing to make a historic sixth Olympic Video games look.
The boys’s 400m IM noticed British nationwide report holder Max Litchfield put up a stable efficiency of 4:15.47 to carry the benefit over fellow Olympic qualifier Daiya Seto of Japan (4:16.21).
Litchfield established a brand new GBR nationwide commonplace of 4:09.14 whereas racing this occasion at April’s British Championships to rank Third on this planet in the meanwhile.
The boys’s and girls’s 100m free prelims weren’t too shabby as Richards took the highest seed within the males’s race whereas Sjostrom was too fast to catch within the girls’s version.
Richards registered 48.73 to set the stage for tonight’s major occasion, with Brazil’s Gui Caribe (48.79), Italy’s Alessandro Miressi (48.90) and fellow Brit Duncan Scott (48.90) among the many contenders.
Sjostrom will see Hong Kong nationwide report holder Siobhan Haughey put up a problem, with Sjostrom nabbing the highest spot in 53.41 to Haughye’s 53.93.
British ace Anna Hopkin was additionally underneath the 54-second threshold, placing up 53.95 because the Third-seeded competitor.
We reported that Canadian Penny Oleksiak certified for the B-final in 55.18 for the 14th seed.
Further Notes
- No lady dipped underneath the 1:00 barrier within the heats of the 100m again. Dutch swimmers Kira Toussaint and Maaike de Waard led the cost, with Toussaint touching in 1:00.73 to de Waard’s 1:00.91. British nationwide champion Kathleen Dawson captured the Third seed in 1:01.08 adopted by Margherita Panziera of Italy who posted 1:01.24.
- Within the non-Olympic occasion of the boys’s 50m again, it was Michele Lamberti who earned the quickest morning mark. Lamberti represented the only swimer of the sector to delve into 24-second territory nabbing the highest spot in 24.83.
- 19-year-old Benedetta Pilato confirmed her dominance as soon as once more within the girls’s 50m breast. She notched a formidable 29.99 to be the one to beat for tonight’s closing. She already ranks Third on this planet with a season-best of 29.58 from final November’s Italian Championships.
Potential New Italian Olympic Qualifiers From Friday’s Sette Colli Motion
Italian Athletes Certified for the 2024 Paris Olympics Getting into Sette Colli
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 combined combined
4×200 freestyle feminine
4×200 freestyle mas
4×100 freestyle combined mas
4×100 combined feminine
