World Swimming Championships 2025: medal table updated to Wednesday, Italy unlocked
Historic day for Italy at the World Swimming Championships. Chiara Pellacani and Matteo Santoro beat the Chinese pair formed by Zilong Chen and Yajie Li and Australian defending champions Cassiel Rousseau and Maddison Keeney and won the three-meter springboard mixed synchro in Singapore during the 22nd edition of the rainbow championships in aquatic disciplines.
This is the fourth consecutive rainbow podium for the Azzurri in the specialty: silver in Budapest 2022, bronze in Fukuoka 2023 and silver in Doha 2024. Never had Italy gone so high with a pair. So far only legend Klaus Dibiasi (in the platform in Belgrade 1973 and Cali 1975) and vice president Tania Cagnotto (in the 1m springboard in Kazan 2015) had managed to win a world gold.
Then Simone Cerasuolo won gold in the 50 breaststroke after silvers by Fabio Scozzoli (Shanghai 2011), his training partner until he retired to Imola, and Olympians Nicolò Martinenghi (Budapest 2022 and Doha 2024) and Domenico Fioravanti (bronze in Fukuoka 2001). L’azzurro is the first ever.
Italy then unlocks itself in victories and moves to a total haul of 2 golds, 11 silvers and 4 bronzes.
