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2026 MEDITERRANEAN GAMES
August 21st – September 3rd, 2026 Taranto, Italy LCM (50m) Meet Central Live ResultsWe moved into the third day of swimming action at the 2026 Mediterranean Games, with the nation of Italy getting on the board in multiple events to extend its lead in the medal table.
22-year-old Olympian Luca De Tullio got the job done in the men’s 800m freestyle, stopping the clock at a speedy mark of 7:46.61 to get to the wall over 8 seconds ahead of his competitors.
Dimitrios Markos of Greece was the next to touch in 7:55.05, followed by Tunisian Ahmed Jaouadi who bagged the bronze in 7:55.30.
As for De Tullio, his performance upgraded the bronze the Italian earned in the 400m free four years ago in Oran. His time here wasn’t terribly off the 7:44.07 lifetime best he put up in the prelims of the event at the 2024 Olympic Games. There in Paris, De Tullio ultimately placed 7th in the final with a slower mark of 7:46.16.
More recently at the European Championships which just concluded earlier this month, De Tullio was back up near his best, hitting 7:44.24 to place 6th.
21-year-old Jaouadi, however, was miles off his best-ever here, a time of 7:36.88 he registered to become the 2025 World Championships gold medalist in the event.
Italy’s mixed medley relay landed atop the podium on day three as well, with the nation collecting the top prize in a collective effort of 3:45.66.
The combination of Francesco Lazzari (53.91), Gabriele Mancini (59.49), Costanza Cocconcelli (58.21) and Chiara Tarantino (54.05) represented the squad who held off Greece and Portugal.
The former settled for silver over two seconds behind in 3:47.89 while the latter posted 3:50.20 for the bronze medal.
Finally, the women’s 200m breaststroke saw Italian national record holder Lisa Angiolini score a new meet record en route to taking the event.
The 31-year-old notched 2:24.27 to handily beat the pack, with Croatia’s Ana Blazevic coming into the wall next in 2:27.63, followed by Italian teammate Francesca Zucca who logged 2:28.46.
Angiolini’s best-ever outing of 2:22.28 established the current Italian standard, with the veteran having produced the mark during April’s Italian Championships. She didn’t fare as well at this year’s European Championships, however, as her time of 2:24.68 shut her out of the final in 9th place.
As mentioned, Italy tops the swimming medal table at the moment, having earned 26 pieces of hardware, including 9 golds, 13 silvers and 4 bronze medals.
Greece is situated next with 5 golds, while Portugal is ranked 3rd with 2 golds.
Rank Country Total 1 Italy 9 13 4 26 2 Greece 5 4 2 11 3 Portugal 2 0 2 4 4 Turkiye 1 1 1 3 5 Spain 1 0 2 3 5 Egypt 1 0 2 3 7 Croatia 0 1 2 3 8 Tunisia 0 0 3 3 9 Slovenia 0 0 1 1 Total 19 19 19 57Additional Notes
Olympic medalist Apostolos Christou got it done for gold in the men’s 50m back, delivering a time of 24.74 as the sole swimmer to clear the 25-second barrier. Italian Francesco Lazzari snagged the silver in 25.12 and Croatia’s Nikola Miljenic bagged the bronze in 25.28. Christou placed 4th in this race at the European Championships, courtesy of his time of 24.15 which notched a new Greek national record. Spain got on the board thanks to Ainho Campabadal beating the women’s 200m freestyle field. The 23-year-old Olympian clinched the gold in 1:57.90 to represent just her 4th outing ever under the 1:58 barrier. Her PB was just set earlier this month in Paris, where her time of 1:57.33 was nabbed as lead-off on the women’s 4x200m free relay. Here in Italy, it was host nation swimmer Anna Chiara Mascolo who was next to the wall in 1:58.53, with Portuguese swimmer Francisca Soares Martins also landing on the podium in 1:58.54, good enough for bronze. Costanza Cocconcelli was the top women’s 50m backstroke performer, turning in a time of 28.03. Her Italian countrywoman Martina Biasioli was the silver medalist in 28.24, with Spain’s Tamara Frias grabbing bronze in 28.44. Greece Olympian Anna Ntountounaki doubled up on her 50m fly victory from earlier in the competition with the gold in the 100m fly event. Her time of 58.17 kept a comfortable distance over her teammate Georgia Damasioti who logged 58.49 as the only other athlete to dip under the 58-second barrier. Italy’s Paola Borrelli notched 59.13 as the bronze medalist. The men’s 100m fly saw host nation athlete Alberto Razzetti get the edge over a pair of competitors who would touch just a hair behind him. Razzetti nabbed the top spot in 52.11, as Italy’s Edoardo Valsecchi and Egypt’s Youssef Ramadan earned the minor medals. The former touched in 52.21, with the latter just off that time in 52.22. Razzetti was 9th in the men’s 100m fly at the European Championships in a result of 51.50. Jacopo Barboti gave Italy another gold, courtesy of his 1:47.53 outing in the men’s 200m free. That narrowly defeated Turkey’s Ahmet Boylu who hit 1:47.59, as Greece’s Markos rounded out the podium in 1:47.92. Doruk Yogurtcuoglu of Turkey proved too quick to catch in the men’s 200m breaststroke, with the three-time European Junior Championships medalist in the event registering 2:10.79 for the gold. The Virginia Tech commit held off Italy’s Christian Mantegazza who scored silver in 2:11.10. Bronze went to Filip Mujan of Croatia who touched in 2:11.13 for a new national record.Read the full story on SwimSwam: Italy Has Golden Night At 2026 Mediterranean Games
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