2025 Italian Championships: Day 1 Finals Live Recap ...Middle East

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2025 ITALIAN CHAMPIONSHIPS

Day one finals of the 2025 Italian Championships are upon us, with a stacked lineup of racing about to unfold from Riccione.

This five-day competition represents the primary qualification opportunity for swimmers to add their names to the nation’s roster for this summer’s World Championships in Singapore.

The Italian Swimming Federation-mandated selection standard is listed underneath each of the individual events below as the benchmark under which swimmers need to delve to make the grade.

Follow along and refresh often to get the blow-by-blow as today’s action gets underway.

MEN’S 50 BACK – FINAL

GOLD – Christian Bacico, 24.83 SILVER – Daniele Del Signore, 25.21 BRONZE – Lorenzo Glessi, 25.39

While this morning’s heats saw the top 10 performers all clear the 26-second barrier in the men’s 50m backstroke, tonight just one swimmer dipped under the 25-second threshold.

19-year-old Christian Bacico fired off a new lifetime best en route to grabbing the gold, hitting a time of 24.83. That improved upon his AM swim of 25.24, a time which lowered his previous PB of 25.33 entering this meet.

That’s a tremendous time drop for the teen, although a minimum of 24.59 was needed to make the World Championships cut.

Daniele Del Signore maintained his runner-up slot from the heats, dropping his morning swim of 25.30 down to 25.21.

Bronze was taken by Lorenzo Glessi, courtesy of his mark of 25.39, rocketing up from his 8th-place position out of this morning’s prelims.

Bacico’s time situates him just outside the list of top 5 performers worldwide on the season and he is now Italy’s 6th-swiftest man in history.

As a reminder, Olympic champion Thomas Ceccon is not competing at these championships. Instead, he’s been granted permission to achieve qualification at the Australian Open National Championships taking place in just over a week.

WOMEN’S 800 FREE – FASTEST HEAT

GOLD – Simona Quadarella, 8:24.85 *World Championships Qualifying SILVER – Emma Giannelli, 8:33.53 BRONZE – Noemi Cesarano, 8:33.72

26-year-old Olympian Simona Quadarella accomplished her World Championships-qualifying mission, winning the women’s 800m freestyle by nearly 19 seconds.

Quadarella punched a result of 8:24.85 as the far-and-away victor.

The next-closest swimmer was Emma Giannelli who touched in 8:33.53 followed closely by Nomi Cesarano who notched 8:33.72 for bronze.

Quadarella is the national record in this event, owning a lifetime best of 8:14.55 from last year when she settled for 4th place at the Olympic Games. She took 800m free bronze at the 2020 Olympic Games and followed that up with the same result plus 1500m gold at the 2024 World Championships in Doha.

MEN’S 400 FREE – FINAL

GOLD –  SILVER –  BRONZE – 

WOMEN’S 100 BREAST – FINAL

GOLD –  SILVER –  BRONZE – 

MEN’S 200 FLY – FINAL

GOLD –  SILVER –  BRONZE – 

WOMEN’S 400 IM – FINAL

GOLD –  SILVER –  BRONZE – 

MEN’S 50 FREE – FINAL

GOLD –  SILVER –  BRONZE – 

WOMEN’S 4×100 FREE RELAY

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