enviornment has introduced a brand new sponsorship settlement with Marcelo Chierighini of Brazil, a 2019 international prime 5 swimmer in 100m freestyle. The 28-year-old was a key member of the Brazilian 4x100m freestyle workforce that received gold on the 2018 Pan Pacific Championships in Tokyo.
“I’m very excited to be a part of the sector workforce,” mentioned Chierighini. “It’s a vital step in my profession, to have the very best know-how and assist in world swimming. I’m optimistic that it’s going to have a really optimistic impact on my outcomes, and am grateful for the chance that enviornment has given me.”
Born in Itu within the state of São Paulo, Chierighini took up swimming on the age of 16 after his triathlete brother Philip inspired him to offer it a strive, and was impressed to show skilled after watching the 2007 Pan American Video games in Rio de Janeiro.
It wasn’t lengthy earlier than he was swimming on the highest degree of the game, breaking the South American report as a part of the Brazilian 4x100m freestyle bronze medal relay on the 2010 World Brief Course Championships in Dubai. It was the start of a profitable run with Brazilian relay groups, with whom he has gone on to win gold on the 2015 Pan American Video games in Toronto (4×100 free, 4×100 medley) and 2018 Pan Pacific Championships in Tokyo (4×100 free), silver on the 2017 World Championships in Budapest (4×100 free), and bronze on the 2014 Pan Pacific Championships in Gold Coast and 2018 World SC Championships in Hangzhou (each 4×100 free). 4 of these swims set new data: new South American data in Budapest and Hangzhou, and Pan American data in Toronto. The 2017 Budapest swim particularly was historic, reaching the very best Brazilian results of all time at World Championships on this occasion (the final medal being in 1994), and breaking the 8-year-old South American report set through the time of hi-tech full physique fits. Chierighini swam the quickest break up of the whole area (46.85), and the third-fastest break up ever in a textile jammer.
Individually, Chierighini has made steady progress: on the 2013 World Championships in Barcelona he made the 100 free ultimate and 50 free semi-final, setting private bests in each; reacfed the 50 free ultimate and 100 free semi-final on the 2014 Pan Pacific Championships in Gold Coast; received the 100 free bronze medal on the 2015 Pan American Video games in Toronto; completed fifth in 100 free on the 2015 World Championships in Kazan; made the 100 free ultimate on the 2016 Rio Olympics; repeated his Kazan consequence on the 2017 World Championships, the place he equalled his private better of 48.11 within the course of; and got here 4th in 100 free on the 2018 Pan Pacific Championships, the place he additionally swam within the 50 free ultimate.
2019 has began nicely for Chierighini: at April’s Maria Lenk Trophy in Rio, he swam a 100 free private better of 47.68, inserting him third on the earth rankings and breaking an 8-year-old South American textile go well with report. It’s a promising starting for what are going to be a busy couple of years for him main as much as the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo, beginning out with the 2019 Sette Colli Trophy in Rome from twenty first to twenty third June.
“My objective at Sette Colli is to win my particular person races, even with such a powerful area! My focus shall be within the 100 free. I’m at present coaching in Turkey on the Gloria Sport Enviornment in preparation for all of the European meets. After that we’ll return to Brazil for the final two weeks of coaching, after which head to Korea at first of July. My objective on the World Champs is to medal within the 100 free and in addition within the 4×100 free relay.”
Chierighini swam for the Auburn Tigers at Auburn College in Alabama, USA, from 2010-2014, throughout which era he received two NCAA titles (2013 4×50 yd freestyle and 2014 4×100 yd freestyle), and was named SEC Male Swimmer of the Yr in 2013. In Brazil, he swims for EC Pinheiros in São Paulo, the place he’s skilled by Alberto Pinto da Silva. In his dwelling city of Itu, he’s concerned in Nadando com Marcelo Chierighini (Swimming with Marcelo Chierighini), a social undertaking centred round swimming for 350 girls and boys aged seven to 17.
