Italy d'silver in men’s 4×100 sl: only Australia beats a great Italian relay team

Splendid satisfaction for Italy’s 4×100 freestyle relay team, which at the World Championships being held in Singapore took the silver medal, behind only Australia. Carlos D’Ambrosio, Thomas Ceccon, Lorenzo Zazzeri and Manuel Frigo completed the race in 3’09″58 (Italian record), 63 hundredths behind the Australian quartet.

Flyn Southam, Kai James Taylor, Maximilian Giuliani and Kyle Chalmers made a great comeback over the U.S., leading for more than half the race with Jack Alexy, Patrick Sammon and Chris Giuliano, before giving up in the last fraction, the one with Jonny Kulow in the water. For Australia’s time of 3’08″97 is also the Championships record, while the U.S. must settle for bronze, with a time of 3’09″64.

Fourth place was taken by Great Britain (Jacob Mills, Matthew Richards, Jacob Henry Whittle and Duncan Scott) with a time of 3’10″73, while China (Chen Juner, Wang Haoyu, Liu Wudi and Pan Zhanle), which completed the relay in 3’11″15, closed out the Top 5. Sixth place for Hungary (Nandor Nemeth, Szebasztian Szabo, Daniel Meszaros and Adam Jaszo), with a time of 3’12″75.

Then in seventh place finished Lithuania (Tomas Navikonis, Tomas Lukminas, Tajus Juska and Danas Rapsys), which finished the race in 3’12″84, while in last place was the Canadian team (Ruslan Gaziev, Josh Liendo, Antoine Sauve and Filip Senc-Samardzic), which did not go beyond a time of 3’12″89.

Destiny different, however, for the women’s 4×100, which finished its final in seventh place. Very good performance, however, by Sara Curtis, Emma Virginia Menicucci, Chiara Tarantino and Sofia Morini, who in the race won by Australia ahead of the United States and the Netherlands stopped the clock at 3’35″18, a new Italian record in the discipline.