Italy at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships explained

Games:	World Aquatics Championships
Nf:	ITA
Nfname:	Italian Swimming Federation
Year:	2022
Flagcaption:	Flag of Italy
Location:	Budapest, Hungary
Gold:	9
Silver:	7
Bronze:	6
Rank:	3
Appearances:	auto

Italy competed at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships in Budapest, Hungary from 18 June to 3 July.^{[1] [2]} Having clinched the final in men's water polo, for the first time it has won at least one medal in every discipline.

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
	Manuel Frigo Alessandro Miressi Lorenzo Zazzeri Thomas Ceccon	Swimming	Men's 4×100 metre freestyle relay	June 18
	Nicolò Martinenghi	Swimming	Men's 100 metre breaststroke	June 19
	Lucrezia Ruggiero Giorgio Minisini	Artistic swimming	Mixed duet technical routine	June 20
	Domiziana Cavanna Linda Cerruti Costanza Di Camillo Costanza Ferro Gemma Galli Marta Iacoacci Marta Murru Enrica Piccoli Federica Sala Francesca Zunino	Artistic swimming	Free routine combination	June 20
	Thomas Ceccon	Swimming	Men's 100 metre backstroke	June 20
	Benedetta Pilato	Swimming	Women's 100 metre breaststroke	June 20
	Domiziana Cavanna Linda Cerruti Costanza Di Camillo Costanza Ferro Gemma Galli Marta Iacoacci Marta Murru Enrica Piccoli	Artistic swimming	Team technical routine	June 21
	Nicolò Martinenghi	Swimming	Men's 50 metre breaststroke	June 21
	Simona Quadarella	Swimming	Women's 800 metre freestyle	June 24
	Lucrezia Ruggiero Giorgio Minisini	Artistic swimming	Mixed Duet free routine	June 25
	Domiziana Cavanna Linda Cerruti Costanza Di Camillo Costanza Ferro Gemma Galli Marta Iacoacci Marta Murru Enrica Piccoli Federica Sala Francesca Zunino	Artistic swimming	Highlight routine	June 25
	Benedetta Pilato	Swimming	Women's 50 metre breaststroke	June 25
	Gregorio Paltrinieri	Swimming	Men's 1500 metre freestyle	June 25
	Nicolò Martinenghi Thomas Ceccon Federico Burdisso Alessandro Miressi	Swimming	Men's 4×100 metre medley relay	June 25
	Domenico Acerenza Giulia Gabbrielleschi Gregorio Paltrinieri Ginevra Tadeucci	Open water swimming	Team	June 26
	Gregorio Paltrinieri	Open water swimming	Men's 5 km	June 27
	Giulia Gabbrielleschi	Open water swimming	Women's 5 km	June 27
	Gregorio Paltrinieri	Open water swimming	Men's 10 km	June 29
	Domenico Acerenza	Open water swimming	Men's 10 km	June 29
	Matteo Santoro Chiara Pellacani	Diving	Mixed 3 m synchronized springboard	June 29
	Dario Verani	Open water swimming	Men's 25 km	June 30
		Water polo	Men's tournament	July 3

Artistic swimming

See main article: Artistic swimming at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships. Italy entered 14 artistic swimmers.^[3]

Women

Athlete	Event	Preliminaries		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Linda Cerruti	Solo technical routine	88.6075	4 Q	89.0142	4
Solo free routine	90.2667	4 Q	90.9667	4
Linda Cerruti Costanza Ferro	Duet technical routine	89.4116	5 Q	89.8733	5
Duet free routine	90.5333	4 Q	91.3333	4
Domiziana Cavanna Linda Cerruti Costanza Di Camillo Costanza Ferro Gemma Galli Marta Iacoacci Marta Murru Enrica Piccoli	Team technical routine	89.5775	3 Q	91.0191
Domiziana Cavanna Linda Cerruti Costanza Di Camillo Costanza Ferro Gemma Galli Marta Iacoacci Enrica Piccoli Francesca Zunino	Team free routine	91.2667	5 Q	91.9000	5
Domiziana Cavanna Linda Cerruti Costanza Di Camillo Costanza Ferro Gemma Galli Marta Iacoacci Marta Murru Enrica Piccoli Federica Sala Francesca Zunino	Free routine combination	90.9667	3 Q	92.0333
Highlight routine	91.6667	2 Q	92.2667

Mixed

Athlete	Event	Preliminaries		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Giorgio Minisini Lucrezia Ruggiero	Duet technical routine	88.5734	1 Q	89.2685
Duet free routine	90.5000	1 Q	90.9667

Diving

See main article: Diving at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships.

Men

Athlete	Event	Preliminaries		Semifinals		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Giovanni Tocci	1 m springboard	396.15	1 Q	326.75	10
	3 m springboard	327.00	36	Did not advance
Lorenzo Marsaglia	1 m springboard	350.60	15	Did not advance
	3 m springboard	369.10	16 Q	355.50	14	Did not advance
Andreas Larsen	10 m platform	369.70	16 Q	296.05	18	Did not advance
Eduard Timbretti	10 m platform	279.85	37	Did not advance
Lorenzo Marsaglia Giovanni Tocci	3 m synchronized springboard	361.65	6 Q	372.33	6
Andreas Larsen Eduard Timbretti	10 m synchronized platform	357.00	6 Q	328.95	10

Women

Athlete	Event	Preliminaries		Semifinals		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Chiara Pellacani	1 m springboard	251.05	7 Q	269.25	4
	3 m springboard	268.80	15 Q	303.75	3 Q	291.60	9
Elena Bertocchi	1 m springboard	243.20	14	Did not advance
	3 m springboard	Did not start
Sarah Jodoin Di Maria	10 m platform	275.25	15 Q	302.05	9 Q	295.65	7
Maia Biginelli	10 m platform	235.90	23	Did not advance
Chiara Pellacani Elena Bertocchi	3 m synchronized springboard	Did not start

Mixed

Athlete	Event	Final
		Points	Rank
Matteo Santoro Chiara Pellacani	3 m synchronized springboard	293.55
Eduard Timbretti Sarah Jodoin Di Maria	10 m synchronized platform	269.34	5

Open water swimming

See main article: Open water swimming at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships.

Men

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Gregorio Paltrinieri	Men's 5 km	52:52.7
	Men's 10 km	1:50:56.8
Domenico Acerenza	Men's 5 km	53:22.6	4
	Men's 10 km	1:50:58.2
Dario Verani	Men's 25 km	5:02:21.5
Matteo Furlan		5:02:53.8	7

Women

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Ginevra Taddeucci	Women's 5 km	58:00.4	6
Giulia Gabbrielleschi		57:54.9
	Women's 10 km	2:02:52.2	14
Rachele Bruni		2:03:17.3	18
Barbara Pozzobon	Women's 25 km	5:24:16.3	4

Mixed

Swimming

See main article: Swimming at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships. Italy ranked third in the medal table of swimming behind the USA and China, with 9 gold, 6 silver and 6 bronze medals won.

Italy entered 29 swimmers.^[4]

Men

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Federico Burdisso	100 m butterfly	51.92	13 Q	51.45	10	Did not advance
Giacomo Carini	200 m butterfly	1:56.38	11 Q	1:55.74	12	Did not advance
Thomas Ceccon	50 m backstroke	24.62 NR	3 Q	24.46 NR	4 Q	24.51	4
100 m backstroke	53.70	9 Q	52.12 NR	2 Q	51.60 WR
50 m butterfly	22.88 NR	2 Q	22.79 NR	2 Q	22.86	5
Simone Cerasuolo	50 m breaststroke	27.17	8 Q	27.01	5 Q	26.98	5
Piero Codia	50 m butterfly	23.53 23.40	16 QSD 2	Did not advance
100 m butterfly	51.69	9 Q	51.73	14	Did not advance
Marco De Tullio	200 m freestyle	1:47.27	13 Q	1:46.29	10	Did not advance
400 m freestyle	3:46.47	8 Q	3:44.14	5
Gabriele Detti	800 m freestyle	7:46.08	3 Q	7:47.75	6
Stefano Di Cola	200 m freestyle	1:48.09	24	Did not advance
Luca Dotto	50 m freestyle	22.60	36	Did not advance
Lorenzo Galossi	400 m freestyle	3:47.19	12	Did not advance
Michele Lamberti	50 m backstroke	25.16	16 Q	24.86	11	Did not advance
200 m backstroke	2:00.92	21	Did not advance
Nicolò Martinenghi	50 m breaststroke	26.68	1 Q	26.56	1 Q	26.48
100 m breaststroke	59.06	4 Q	58.46	1 Q	58.26 NR
Alessandro Miressi	100 m freestyle	48.51	16 Q	47.89	6 Q	48.31	8
Gregorio Paltrinieri	800 m freestyle	7:46.24	4 Q	7:41.19	4
1500 m freestyle	14:54.56	7 Q	14:32.80 CR, ER
Alberto Razzetti	200 m butterfly	1:55.71	5 Q	1:54.87	7 Q	1:55.52	7
200 m individual medley	1:58.70	8 Q	1:58.02	10	Did not advance
400 m individual medley	4:13.72	9	Did not advance
Lorenzo Zazzeri	50 m freestyle	21.95	9 Q	21.70	2 Q	21.81	6
100 m freestyle	48.29	8 Q	47.96 48.04	8 QSO 2	Did not advance
Alessandro Miressi Thomas Ceccon Lorenzo Zazzeri Manuel Frigo	4 × 100 m freestyle relay	3:13.13	6 Q	3:10.95
Stefano Ballo Matteo Ciampi Gabriele Detti Stefano Di Cola	4 × 200 m freestyle relay	7:10.16	9	Did not advance
Thomas Ceccon Nicolò Martinenghi Federico Burdisso Alessandro Miressi Piero Codia Lorenzo Zazzeri	4 × 100 m medley relay	3:33.02	3 Q	3:27.51 =ER

Women

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Arianna Castiglioni	50 m breaststroke	Disqualified		Did not advance
100 m breaststroke	1:06.49	4 Q	1:06.59	11	Did not advance
Elena Di Liddo	50 m butterfly	26.47	15 Q	26.59	16	Did not advance
100 m butterfly	57.97	9 Q	58.44	13	Did not advance
Silvia Di Pietro	50 m freestyle	25.33	15 Q	Disqualified		Did not advance
50 m butterfly	26.08	9 Q	26.08	12	Did not advance
Francesca Fangio	200 m breaststroke	2:25.70	7 Q	2:25.09	8 Q	2:25.08	7
Margherita Panziera	100 m backstroke	1:00.40	9 Q	1:00.26	10	Did not advance
200 m backstroke	2:08.64	3 Q	2:08.28	4 Q	2:07.27	4
Benedetta Pilato	50 m breaststroke	29.80	2 Q	29.83	1 Q	29.80
100 m breaststroke	1:06.68	8 Q	1:05.88	2 Q	1:05.93
Simona Quadarella	800 m freestyle	8:27.96	7 Q	8:19.00
1500 m freestyle	15:56.19	2 Q	16:03.84	5
Silvia Scalia	50 m backstroke	27.86	7 Q	27.72 27.65 NR	8 QSO 2	Did not advance
100 m backstroke	1:00.77	11 Q	1:00.58	11	Did not advance
Chiara Tarantino	100 m freestyle	55.30	21	Did not advance
Margherita Panziera Benedetta Pilato Elena Di Liddo Silvia Di Pietro Silvia Scalia* Arianna Castiglioni*	4 × 100 m medley relay	3:59.40	5 Q	3:58.86	7

Mixed

Athlete	Event	Heat		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Lorenzo Zazzeri Alessandro Miressi Silvia Di Pietro Chiara Tarantino	4 × 100 m freestyle relay	3:26.00	5 Q	3:25.83	7
Thomas Ceccon Nicolò Martinenghi Elena Di Liddo Silvia Di Pietro Michele Lamberti* Arianna Castiglioni* Manuel Frigo*	4 × 100 m medley relay	3:46.44	7 Q	3:41.67	5

Legend: (*) = Swimmers who participated in the heat only.

Water polo

See main article: Water polo at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships.

Summary

Team	Event	Group stage				Playoff	Quarterfinal	Semifinals	Final
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
	Men's tournament	W 22–4	L 12–14	cancelled	2	W 17–6	W 11–10	W 11–10	L 14–15 (P)
	Women's tournament	D 7–7	W 10–9	W 31–5	1		W 17–7	L 6–14	L 4–7	4

Men's tournament

See main article: Water polo at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships – Men's tournament.

Team roster

Group play

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Playoffs----

Quarterfinal----

Semifinals----

Final

Women's tournament

See main article: Water polo at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships – Women's tournament.

Team roster

Group A------------

Quarterfinals----

Semifinals----

Third place game

See also

• Italy national swimming team
• Italy men's national water polo team
• Italy women's national water polo team

Notes and References

1. Web site: Competition Athletes | FINA Official. FINA - Fédération Internationale De Natation.
2. Web site: Paskelbti plaukikai, atstovausiantys Lietuvai svarbiausiose sezono varžybose. ltuswimming.com.
3. Web site: 19th FINA World Championships Artistic swimming Entry List. 25 June 2022. 5 July 2022. Omega Timing.
4. Web site: Swimming Entry List. 15 June 2022 . www.omegatiming.com . 20 June 2022.