Italy at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships

Italy at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships
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FINA code	ITA
National federation	Federazione Italiana Nuoto
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in Barcelona, Spain
Medals Ranked 11th	Gold 1 Silver 3 Bronze 1 Total 5
World Aquatics Championships appearances (overview)
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Italy competed at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships in Barcelona, Spain between 19 July and 4 August 2013.

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Gold	Martina Grimaldi	Open water swimming	Women's 25 km	27 July
Silver	Tania Cagnotto Francesca Dallapè	Diving	Women's 3 m synchronized springboard	20 July
Silver	Tania Cagnotto	Diving	Women's 1 m springboard	23 July
Silver	Federica Pellegrini	Swimming	Women's 200 m freestyle	31 July
Bronze	Gregorio Paltrinieri	Swimming	Men's 1500 m freestyle	4 August

Diving

Main article: Diving at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships

Italy qualified 11 quota places for the following diving events. ^[1]

Men

Athlete	Event	Preliminaries		Semifinals		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Michele Benedetti	1 m springboard	303.10	26	N/A		Did not advance
Andreas Billi		292.30	31	N/A		Did not advance
Michele Benedetti	3 m springboard	383.95	19	Did not advance
Tommaso Rinaldi		356.40	28	Did not advance
Andrea Chiarabini	10 m platform	418.60	10 Q	451.70	9 Q	370.75	12
Maicol Verzotto		355.10	22	Did not advance
Andreas Billi Giovanni Tocci	3 m synchronized springboard	372.96	11 Q	N/A		362.88	12
Francesco Dell'Uomo Maicol Verzotto	10 m synchronized platform	376.68	8 Q	N/A		386.25	7

Women

Athlete	Event	Preliminaries		Semifinals		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Tania Cagnotto	1 m springboard	284.85	2 Q	N/A		307.00
Maria Marconi		221.55	23	N/A		Did not advance
Tania Cagnotto	3 m springboard	312.60	3 Q	325.80	5 Q	345.45	4
Maria Marconi		308.05	5 Q	301.75	10 Q	334.05	6
Noemi Batki	10 m platform	244.90	31	Did not advance
Tania Cagnotto Francesca Dallapè	3 m synchronized springboard	302.40	2 Q	N/A		307.80

Open water swimming

Main article: Open water swimming at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships

Italy qualified 10 quota places for the following events in open water swimming. ^[2]

Men

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Valerio Cleri	10 km	1:49:30.5	14
	25 km	4:55:16.5	21
Luca Ferretti	5 km	53:47.1	24
Simone Ruffini	25 km	4:47:42.7	7
Mario Sanzullo	10 km	1:51:07.7	43
Federico Vanelli	5 km	53:42.3	16

Women

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Rachele Bruni	5 km	56:48.1	10
	10 km	2:00:03.2	31
Alice Franco	25 km	5:07:22.9	4
Martina Grimaldi	5 km	56:46.3	7
	10 km	1:58:24.9	12
	25 km	5:07:19.7

Mixed

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Simone Ercoli Luca Ferretti Rachele Bruni	Team	54:34.0	5

Swimming

Main article: Swimming at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships

Italian swimmers achieved qualifying standards in the following events (up to a maximum of 2 swimmers in each event at the A-standard entry time, and 1 at the B-standard): ^{[3] [4] [5]}

Men

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Marco Belotti	200 m freestyle	1:48.66	21	Did not advance
Piero Codia	50 m butterfly	23.21	5 Q	23.50	15	Did not advance
Gabriele Detti	400 m freestyle	3:49.78	14	N/A		Did not advance
	800 m freestyle	7:56.15	11	N/A		Did not advance
	1500 m freestyle	15:18.04	19	N/A		Did not advance
Alex di Giorgio	200 m freestyle	1:48.47	18	Did not advance
Mirco di Tora	50 m backstroke	25.54	17	Did not advance
	100 m backstroke	54.76	18	Did not advance
Luca Dotto	50 m freestyle	22.45	21	Did not advance
	100 m freestyle	48.88	=10 Q	48.46	8 Q	48.58	8
Filippo Magnini	100 m freestyle	49.02	13 Q	49.12	16	Did not advance
Luca Marin	400 m individual medley	4:17.71	14	N/A		Did not advance
Marco Orsi	50 m freestyle	22.61	23	Did not advance
Gregorio Paltrinieri	800 m freestyle	7:52.33	7 Q	N/A		7:50.29	6
	1500 m freestyle	14:57.15	4 Q	N/A		14:45.37
Francesco Pavone	200 m butterfly	1:58.68	21	Did not advance
Mattia Pesce	50 m breaststroke	27.52	=13 Q	27.42	7 Q	27.53	8
	100 m breaststroke	1:00.32	14 Q	1:01.06	16	Did not advance
Samuel Pizzetti	400 m freestyle	3:53.26	22	N/A		Did not advance
Luca Pizzini	200 m breaststroke	2:11.93	18	Did not advance
Matteo Rivolta	50 m butterfly	23.65	=18	Did not advance
	100 m butterfly	52.00	=5 Q	51.64 NR	6 Q	51.65	=7
Fabio Scozzoli	50 m breaststroke	27.60	18	Did not advance
	100 m breaststroke	59.88	=3 Q	59.90	7 Q	59.70	5
Federico Turrini	200 m backstroke	1:58.54	13 Q	1:59.16	15	Did not advance
	200 m individual medley	2:00.02	19	Did not advance
	400 m individual medley	4:15.96	10	N/A		Did not advance
Luca Dotto Filippo Magnini Luca Leonardi Michele Santucci	4×100 m freestyle relay	3:14.13	7 Q	N/A		3:12.62	5
Marco Belotti Alex di Giorgio Damiano Lestingi Filippo Magnini	4×200 m freestyle relay	7:13.60	10	N/A		Did not advance
Mirco di Tora Marco Orsi Matteo Rivolta Fabio Scozzoli	4×100 m medley relay	3:34.29	6 Q	N/A		3:34.06	6

Women

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Ilaria Bianchi	50 m butterfly	26.63	19	Did not advance
	100 m butterfly	58.22	7 Q	58.29	7 Q	58.11	6
Martina Caramignoli	1500 m freestyle	16:15.65	10	N/A		Did not advance
Diletta Carli	400 m freestyle	4:13.89	19	N/A		Did not advance
Martina de Memme	400 m freestyle	4:08.42	11	N/A		Did not advance
	800 m freestyle	8:26.95	6 Q	N/A		8:29.37	7
Silvia di Pietro	50 m freestyle	25.24	17	Did not advance
	50 m butterfly	26.31	=8 Q	26.35	12	Did not advance
Erika Ferraioli	100 m freestyle	55.54	24	Did not advance
Lisa Fissneider	50 m breaststroke	31.94	27	Did not advance
	100 m breaststroke	1:08.53	19	Did not advance
Michela Guzzetti	50 m breaststroke	31.51	17	Did not advance
	100 m breaststroke	1:09.54	28	Did not advance
Alice Mizzau	200 m freestyle	1:58.10	12 Q	1:58.05	13	Did not advance
Federica Pellegrini	200 m freestyle	1:56.79	3 Q	1:55.78	1 Q	1:55.14
	200 m backstroke	2:10.65	10 Q	2:09.97	9	Did not advance
Stefania Pirozzi	200 m butterfly	2:08.50	8 Q	2:08.09	11	Did not advance
	200 m individual medley	2:14.98	=23	Did not advance
	400 m individual medley	4:42.33	13	N/A		Did not advance
Silvia di Pietro Erika Ferraioli Alice Mizzau Federica Pellegrini	4×100 m freestyle relay	3:39.50	10	N/A		Did not advance
Diletta Carli Martina de Memme Alice Mizzau Federica Pellegrini	4×200 m freestyle relay	7.57.41	8 Q	N/A		7:57.91	7
Ilaria Bianchi Erika Ferraioli Lisa Fissneider Federica Pellegrini	4×100 m medley relay	DSQ		N/A		Did not advance

Synchronized swimming

Main article: Synchronised swimming at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships

Italy has qualified twelve synchronized swimmers. ^[6]

Athlete	Event	Preliminaries		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Linda Cerruti	Solo free routine	88.580	8 Q	87.590	8
	Solo technical routine	88.400	8 Q	89.200	8
Linda Cerruti Costanza Ferro	Duet free routine	89.630	6 Q	89.170	6
	Duet technical routine	87.300	9 Q	87.800	9
Elisa Bozzo Beatrice Callegari Camilla Cattaneo Manila Flamini Giulia Lapi Mariangela Perrupato Dalita Schiesaro Sara Sgarzi	Team free routine	89.880	5 Q	89.840	5
	Team technical routine	89.600	6 Q	89.900	6
Elisa Bozzo Beatrice Callegari Camilla Cattaneo Francesca Deidda Manila Flamini Giulia Lapi Mariangela Perrupato Alessia Pezone Dalita Schiesaro Sara Sgarzi	Free routine combination	89.030	6 Q	89.550	6

Water polo

Main article: Water polo at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships

Men's tournament

Main article: Water polo at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships – Men's tournament

Team roster ^[7]

• Stefano Tempesti
• Amaurys Pérez
• Niccolò Gitto
• Pietro Figlioli
• Alex Giorgetti
• Maurizio Felugo
• Niccolò Figari
• Valentino Gallo
• Christian Presciutti
• Deni Fiorentini
• Matteo Aicardi
• Christian Napolitano
• Marco Del Lungo

Group play

	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Italy	3	3	0	0	32	18	+14	6
Germany	3	2	0	1	26	26	0	4
Kazakhstan	3	1	0	2	21	25	−4	2
Romania	3	0	0	3	16	26	−10	0

22 July 2013 18:50	Report	Italy	10–4	Romania	Piscines Bernat Picornell, Barcelona Attendance: 600 Referees: Peris (CRO), Koryzna (POL)
		Score by quarters:4–1, 1–1, 2–2, 2–0
		Aicardi 3	Goals	four players 1

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24 July 2013 18:50	Report	Italy	10–8	Germany	Piscines Bernat Picornell, Barcelona Attendance: 600 Referees: Borrell (ESP), Terepenka (CAN)
		Score by quarters:3–1, 3–1, 3–3, 1–3
		three players 2	Goals	Real, Schlotterbeck 2

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26 July 2013 12:10	Report	Italy	12–6	Kazakhstan	Piscines Bernat Picornell, Barcelona Attendance: 700 Referees: Peris (CRO), Abramović (MNE)
		Score by quarters:3–0, 3–2, 2–1, 4–3
		Figlioli 4	Goals	Koliadenko 2

Round of 16

28 July 2013 20:10	Report	Italy	11–3	China	Piscines Bernat Picornell, Barcelona Attendance: 600 Referees: Margeta (SLO), Terepenka (CAN)
		Score by quarters:3–1, 3–1, 3–0, 2–1
		Giorgetti 4	Goals	three players 1

Quarterfinal

30 July 2013 21:45	Report	Spain	3–4	Italy	Piscines Bernat Picornell, Barcelona Attendance: 4,500 Referees: Stavridis (GRE), Alexandrescu (ROU)
		Score by quarters: 2–2, 1–1, 0–1, 0–0
		three players 1	Goals	Figlioli 2

Semifinal

1 August 2013 21:45	Report	Montenegro	10–8	Italy	Piscines Bernat Picornell, Barcelona Attendance: 2,500 Referees: Margeta (SLO), Koryzna (POL)
		Score by quarters:3–1, 2–0, 4–3, 1–4
		Janović 3	Goals	Figlioli, Aicardi 3

Third place game

3 August 2013 16:30	Report	Croatia	10–8	Italy	Piscines Bernat Picornell, Barcelona Attendance: 2,500 Referees: Stavridis (GRE), Alexandrescu (ROU)
		Score by quarters:4–2, 4–1, 1–2, 1–3
		Sukno, Joković 3	Goals	Giorgetti 3

Women's tournament

Main article: Water polo at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships – Women's tournament

Team roster ^[8]

• Elena Gigli
• Francesca Pomeri
• Arianna Garibotti
• Federica Radicchi
• Elisa Queirolo
• Rosaria Aiello
• Tania Di Mario
• Roberta Bianconi
• Giulia Enrica Emmolo
• Valeria Palmieri
• Aleksandra Cotti
• Teresa Frassinetti
• Loredana Sparano

Group play

	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Hungary	3	3	0	0	48	17	+31	6
Italy	3	2	0	1	26	22	+4	4
Kazakhstan	3	1	0	2	23	32	−9	2
Brazil	3	0	0	3	16	42	−26	0

21 July 2013 20:10	Report	Italy	9–7	Kazakhstan	Piscines Bernat Picornell, Barcelona Attendance: 600 Referees: Taylan (TUR), Ni (CHN)
		Score by quarters: 1–3, 5–0, 2–3, 1–1
		Di Mario 3	Goals	Akilbayeva, Gritsenko 2

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23 July 2013 18:50	Report	Hungary	10–4	Italy	Piscines Bernat Picornell, Barcelona Attendance: 400 Referees: Borrell (ESP), Margeta (SLO)
		Score by quarters:3–1, 3–1, 3–1, 1–1
		Keszthelyi, Bujka 4	Goals	four players 1

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25 July 2013 13:30	Report	Italy	13–5	Brazil	Piscines Bernat Picornell, Barcelona Attendance: 200 Referees: Skovpina (UZB), Koganov (AZE)
		Score by quarters:2–1, 6–0, 2–1, 3–3
		three players 3	Goals	Zablith 2

Round of 16

27 July 2013 21:30	Report	Italy	12–13	Greece	Piscines Bernat Picornell, Barcelona Attendance: 400 Referees: Margeta (SLO), Borrell (ESP)
		Score by quarters: 2–2, 2–3, 1–2, 4–2  OT: 1–1, 0–0 pen. 2–3
		Bianconi 3	Goals	Manolioudaki 4

References

1. "BCN 2013 Italy's Diving Team". Barcelona 2013. Archived from the original on 26 July 2013. Retrieved 24 July 2013.
2. "BCN 2013 Italy's Open Water Swimming Team". Barcelona 2013. Archived from the original on 25 July 2013. Retrieved 24 July 2013.
3. "BCN 2013 (Swimming) – Qualifying Procedures". FINA. 1 July 2013. Archived from the original on 20 June 2013. Retrieved 21 July 2013.
4. "BCN 2013 Italy's Swimming Team". Barcelona 2013. Archived from the original on 25 July 2013. Retrieved 21 July 2013.
5. "Italy Adds Two Swimmers To World Championship Squad After FINA Deadline". Swimming World Magazine. 18 July 2013. Archived from the original on 25 July 2013. Retrieved 25 July 2013.
6. "BCN 2013 Italy's Synchronized Swimming Team". Barcelona 2013. Archived from the original on 27 July 2013. Retrieved 24 July 2013.
7. "BCN 2013 Italy's Men's Water Polo Team" (PDF). Omega Timing. Retrieved 30 July 2013.
8. "BCN 2013 Italy's Women's Water Polo Team" (PDF). Omega Timing. Retrieved 30 July 2013.

External links

• Barcelona 2013 Official Site
• FIN (Federazione Italiana Nuoto) (in Italian)
• Nuoto.it (in Italian)