By Sam Blacker on SwimSwam
2026 Italian Swimming Championships Tuesday, April 14th – Saturday, April 18th Prelims at 10am local (4am ET)/Finals at 6pm local (Noon ET) *Friday finals start at 5:15pm local (11:15am ET) Riccione, Italy LCM (50m) 2026 European Championship Selection Criteria Entry List SwimSwam Italia Preview Live Results Livestream Recaps Prelims: Day 1We kick off the first night of finals tonight at the Italian Championships in Riccione. This is the first opportunity for athletes to qualify for the Italian team for the European Championships this summer, with the second opportunity coming at the Sette Colli in June.
We will start off with the men’s 50 back, with Michele Lamberti as the top seed. He burst onto the scene with a silver medal in the event at the 2021 European Short Course Championships and placed 7th in the 50 back at the 2024 World Championships, but missed the team for the World Championships last year. He was just 0.33 seconds off his national record of 24.40 this morning, so look out for a big swim from him.
Simona Quadarella will be the second national record holder up, as she takes centre stage in the women’s 800 free. She won silver in the 1500 at Worlds and placed 4th in this event in 8:12.81. She is the top seed by nearly 17 seconds, and should wrap up her European Championships qualification tonight.
The men’s 400 free is far more open, with all eight men within three seconds of each other this morning. The qualification time they will need is 3:47.50, and with no one breaking 3:50 this morning expect to see someone like top seed Alessandro Ragaini step up.
The women’s 100 breast should have no issues with qualifiers, with national record holder Benedetta Pilato and Lisa Angiolini sub-1:07 this morning. Pilato was 1:06.77 to take top spot, and there is Anita Bottazzo lurking after she won the event last year in 1:05.82 and already has a 1:06.0 swim to her name this season. The qualification time is a stiff 1:06.20 however, so all three women will need to be on top form.
The men’s 50 fly could be the first event of the night without a European qualifier, with only one swimmer this morning within half a second of the 23.10 required. Lorenzo Gargani was fastest in 23.48, with Alberto Razzetti (23.73) and Federico Burdisso (23.74) flanking him tonight.
Anna Pirovano will aim to defend her 400 IM title after qualifying 3rd into the final, but the top seed coming into the event, Sara Franceschi, will not be in the field after placing 10th in the heats.
The final individual event of the evening is then the men’s 50 free, where Leonardo Deplano is in lane 4 after going 21.99 this morning. He is flanked by Lorenzo Ballarati and Giacomo Guatti, but will have the veteran trio of Manuel Frigo, Lorenzo Zazzeri and Alessandro Miressi in the outside lanes to watch out for, with a time of 21.90 is required for those men to book their tickets to Paris in August. To close out the night we will then have the women’s 4×100 free relay, with the teams yet to be announced.
MEN’S 50 BACK – FINAL
World Record – 23.55, Kliment Kolesnikov (RUS), 2021 European Record – 23.55, Kliment Kolesnikov (RUS) 2021 ITA Record – 24.40, Thomas Ceccon (2022) & Michele Lamberti (2024) European Championships Qualifying Time – 24.70WOMEN’S 800 FREE – FASTEST HEAT
World Record – 8:04.79, Katie Ledecky (USA), 2016 European Record – 8:12.81, Simona Quadarella (ITA), 2026 ITA Record – 8:12.81, Simona Quadarella, 2026 World Championships Qualifying Time – 8:30.00MEN’S 400 FREE – FINAL
World Record – 3:39.96, Lukas Märtens (GER), 2025 European Record – 3:39.96, Lukas Märtens (GER), 2025 ITA Record – 3:43.23, Gabriele Detti, 2019 World Championships Qualifying Time – 3:47.50WOMEN’S 100 BREAST – FINAL
World Record – 1:04.13, Lilly King (USA), 2017 European Record – 1:04.35, Ruta Meilutyte (LTU), 2013 ITA Record – 1:05.44, Benedetta Pilato 2024 World Championships Qualifying Time – 1:06.20MEN’S 50 FLY – FINAL
World Record – 22.27, Andriy Govorov (UKR), 2018 European Record – 22.27, Andriy Govorov (UKR), 2018 ITA Record – 22.67, Thomas Ceccon, 2025 World Championships Qualifying Time – 23.10WOMEN’S 400 IM – FINAL
World Record – 4:24.28, Summer McIntosh (CAN), 2024 European Record – 4:26.36, Katinka Hosszu (HUN), 2016 ITA Record – 4:34.34, Alessia Filippi, 2008 World Championships Qualifying Time – 4:39.50MEN’S 50 FREE – FINAL
World Record – 20.91, Cesar Cielo (BRA), 2009 European Record – 20.94, Fred Bousquet (FRA), 2009 ITA Record – 21.37, Andrea Vergani, 2018 World Championships Qualifying Time – 21.90WOMEN’S 4×100 FREE – FINAL
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