Swimming: three more medals arrive in Melbourne, 4×50 misses gold by a whisker

One bronze and two silver medals on Thursday

It ended with only a narrowly missed gold, which became silver just a few meters from the finish line, on Thursday at the World Short Course Swimming Championships being held in Melbourne.

The 4×50 freestyle relay team, composed of Alessandro Miressi, Leonardo Deplano, Thomas Ceccon and Manuel Frigo, stroked the rainbow dream for a long time, only being mocked in the last meters by the Australian quartet, whose last fractionalist (Kyle Chalmers) was able to get ahead of the Italian one by only 4 hundredths of a second.

The relay team’s silver medal matched that obtained, shortly before, by Nicolò Martinenghi in the 100 breaststroke (gold to American Fink). Before that, Miressi himself had won bronze in the 100 freestyle, in the race won by Chalmers.

In the medal table, therefore, Italy rises to 7: 2 golds, 4 silvers and a bronze.