Paris 2024 Olympics, Gregorio Paltrinieri wins record silver medal

A stunning Italian silver, behind a new world recordman.

Gregorio Paltrinieri wins another medal for Italy at the Paris 2024 Olympics. In fact, the Marche-based swimmer took silver in the 1,500-meter freestyle, beaten by U.S. Bobby Finke, who rewrote swimming history. His time of 14:30.67 è in fact, the new world record. Excellent forò the test of the Italian, second at 14:34.55 after having long tried to undermine the formidable American swimmer. Bronze to Ireland, thanks to Daniel Wiffen's third place.

Finke leads the race practically from the first to the last meter, with Paltrinieri però è for the entire duration of the event his very first pursuer without giving any chance to the other pursuers to jeopardize his silver. Trying to do so are Turkey’s Tuncelli and Tunisia’s Jaouadi, as well as Wiffen, who then secured bronze. For the Emiliano, therefore, comes the fifth medal at the Olympics: in the history of Italian swimming, never has anyone won as many.

Paltrinieri’s hopes had already seemed clear in the statements he made after winning the final in the battery. "I have not lived these days very well, becauseé when you do well in one race you get a kind of anxiety of not wanting to wait for the other races. I really want to get into the pool to do the 1500 freestyle", the blue champion had anticipated.

For him, who has now reached a quota of one gold, two silver and two bronze medals, a bronze medal in the 88-meter freestyle had already arrived in Paris. "I am no longer soù fast, but I have honed other cards. I have been waiting for such a race for a long time, I am happy. This means everything. I convince myself that I am okay when I get here. After the Sette Colli, where I swam very badly, we had even thought about not doing the 800", Paltrinieri had said hotly.