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National team | Italy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Pistoia, Italy | 25 July 1996||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Strokes | Long-distance swimming | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Giulia Gabbrielleschi (born 24 July 1996) is an Italian open water swimmer. She is a two-time individual silver medallist at the European Aquatics Championships, having placed second in the 10 km event in 2018 and second in the 5 km event in the 2020 championships, held in 2021.
Gabbrielleschi is an athlete of the Gruppo Sportivo Fiamme Oro. [1]
Gabbrielleschi won a silver medal at the 2017 Summer Universiade, finishing behind Anna Olasz in the 10 km open water event. [2]
Gabbrielleschi won a silver medal at the 2018 European Aquatics Championships, finishing seven seconds behind winner Sharon van Rouwendaal of the Netherlands in the 10 km open water competition. [3]
In 2019, she represented Italy at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships held in Gwangju, South Korea. She competed in the women's 800 metre freestyle and women's 1500 metre freestyle events. [4] [5] In both events she did not advance to the final. [4] [5] Two years later, at the 2020 European Aquatics Championships held in 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, she won the silver medal in the 5 kilometre open water swim with a time of 58 minutes and 49.3 seconds, which was less than five seconds slower than gold medalist Sharon van Rouwendaal. [6]
At the 2022 World Aquatics Championships, in Budapest, Hungary, Gabbrielleschi won a bronze medal as part of the 6 kilometre team event. [7] She also won a bronze medal in the 5 kilometre open water swim with a time of 57 minutes and 54.9 seconds, finishing only behind Ana Marcela Cunha of Brazil and Aurélie Muller of France. [8] [9] [10] Two months later, at the 2022 European Aquatics Championships in Rome, she won the bronze medal in the 5 kilometre open water swim with a time of 57:00.3, finishing 1.6 seconds behind gold medalist Sharon van Rouwendaal and 0.1 seconds behind silver medalist María de Valdés of Spain. [11] [12] [13] [14]