Italy at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships

Sporting event delegation

Italy at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships
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National federation	Italian Swimming Federation
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in Budapest, Hungary
Medals Ranked 3rd	Gold 9 Silver 7 Bronze 6 Total 22
World Aquatics Championships appearances (overview)
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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
Bronze	Manuel Frigo Alessandro Miressi Lorenzo Zazzeri Thomas Ceccon	Swimming	Men's 4×100 metre freestyle relay	June 18
Gold	Nicolò Martinenghi	Swimming	Men's 100 metre breaststroke	June 19
Gold	Lucrezia Ruggiero Giorgio Minisini	Artistic swimming	Mixed duet technical routine	June 20
Bronze	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
Gold	Thomas Ceccon	Swimming	Men's 100 metre backstroke	June 20
Gold	Benedetta Pilato	Swimming	Women's 100 metre breaststroke	June 20
Bronze	Domiziana Cavanna Linda Cerruti Costanza Di Camillo Costanza Ferro Gemma Galli Marta Iacoacci Marta Murru Enrica Piccoli	Artistic swimming	Team technical routine	June 21
Silver	Nicolò Martinenghi	Swimming	Men's 50 metre breaststroke	June 21
Bronze	Simona Quadarella	Swimming	Women's 800 metre freestyle	June 24
Gold	Lucrezia Ruggiero Giorgio Minisini	Artistic swimming	Mixed Duet free routine	June 25
Silver	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
Silver	Benedetta Pilato	Swimming	Women's 50 metre breaststroke	June 25
Gold	Gregorio Paltrinieri	Swimming	Men's 1500 metre freestyle	June 25
Gold	Nicolò Martinenghi Thomas Ceccon Federico Burdisso Alessandro Miressi	Swimming	Men's 4×100 metre medley relay	June 25
Bronze	Domenico Acerenza Giulia Gabbrielleschi Gregorio Paltrinieri Ginevra Tadeucci	Open water swimming	Team	June 26
Silver	Gregorio Paltrinieri	Open water swimming	Men's 5 km	June 27
Bronze	Giulia Gabbrielleschi	Open water swimming	Women's 5 km	June 27
Gold	Gregorio Paltrinieri	Open water swimming	Men's 10 km	June 29
Silver	Domenico Acerenza	Open water swimming	Men's 10 km	June 29
Silver	Matteo Santoro Chiara Pellacani	Diving	Mixed 3 m synchronized springboard	June 29
Gold	Dario Verani	Open water swimming	Men's 25 km	June 30
Silver	Italy men's national water polo team Lorenzo Bruni Giacomo Cannella Luca Damonte Marco Del Lungo Francesco Di Fulvio Edoardo Di Somma Vincenzo Dolce Gonzalo Echenique Andrea Fondelli Matteo Iocchi Gratta Luca Marziali Gianmarco Nicosia Nicholas Presciutti	Water polo	Men's tournament	July 3

Artistic swimming

Italy entered 14 artistic swimmers.^[3]

Women

Athlete	Event	Preliminaries		Final
Athlete	Event	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Linda Cerruti	Solo technical routine	88.6075	4 Q	89.0142	4
Linda Cerruti	Solo free routine	90.2667	4 Q	90.9667	4
Linda Cerruti Costanza Ferro	Duet technical routine	89.4116	5 Q	89.8733	5
Linda Cerruti Costanza Ferro	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
Athlete	Event	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Giorgio Minisini Lucrezia Ruggiero	Duet technical routine	88.5734	1 Q	89.2685
Giorgio Minisini Lucrezia Ruggiero	Duet free routine	90.5000	1 Q	90.9667

Diving

Men

Athlete	Event	Preliminaries		Semifinals		Final
Athlete	Event	Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Giovanni Tocci	1 m springboard	396.15	1 Q	—		326.75	10
Giovanni Tocci	3 m springboard	327.00	36	Did not advance
Lorenzo Marsaglia	1 m springboard	350.60	15	—		Did not advance
Lorenzo Marsaglia	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
Athlete	Event	Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Chiara Pellacani	1 m springboard	251.05	7 Q	—		269.25	4
Chiara Pellacani	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
Elena Bertocchi	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
Athlete	Event	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

Men

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

Women

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

Mixed

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Ginevra Taddeucci Giulia Gabbrielleschi Domenico Acerenza Gregorio Paltrinieri	Team	1:04:43.0

Swimming

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
Athlete	Event	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
Piero Codia	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
Marco De Tullio	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
Michele Lamberti	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
Nicolò Martinenghi	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
Gregorio Paltrinieri	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
Lorenzo Zazzeri	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
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Arianna Castiglioni	50 m breaststroke	Disqualified		Did not advance
Arianna Castiglioni	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
Elena Di Liddo	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
Silvia Di Pietro	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
Margherita Panziera	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
Benedetta Pilato	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
Simona Quadarella	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
Silvia Scalia	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
Athlete	Event	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

Summary

Key:

FT – After full time.
P – Match decided by penalty-shootout.

Team	Event	Group stage				Playoff	Quarterfinal	Semifinals	Final
Team	Event	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Italy	Men's tournament	South Africa W 22–4	Spain L 12–14	Canada cancelled	2	Australia W 17–6	Hungary W 11–10	Greece W 11–10	Spain L 14–15 (P)
Italy	Women's tournament	Canada D 7–7	Hungary W 10–9	Colombia W 31–5	1	—	France W 17–7	United States L 6–14	Netherlands L 4–7	4

Men's tournament

Team roster

The following is Italian roster in the Water polo at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships – Men's tournament.^[5]

Head coach: Alessandro Campagna

1 Marco Del Lungo GK
2 Francesco Di Fulvio D
3 Luca Damonte D
4 Matteo Iocchi Gratta CB
5 Andrea Fondelli D
6 Giacomo Cannella D
7 Luca Marziali CF
8 Gonzalo Echenique D
9 Nicholas Presciutti CB
10 Lorenzo Bruni CF
11 Edoardo Di Somma CB
12 Vincenzo Dolce CB
13 Gianmarco Nicosia GK

Group play

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Spain	2	2	0	42	14	+28	4	Quarterfinals
2	Italy	2	1	1	34	18	+16	2	Playoffs
3	South Africa	2	0	2	6	50	−44	0	Playoffs
4	Canada^[a]	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Withdrew

Source: Sportresult
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head number of goals scored; 5) Goal difference.
Notes:

^ On 24 June, the Canadian team withdrew from the tournament after multiple positive COVID-19 cases amongst the team.^[6]^[7]

21 June 2022 18:00	Report	South Africa	4–22	Italy	Sopron Lőver Pool, Sopron Referees: Radu Matache (ROU), Wallop Jirathornwattana (THA)
		Score by quarters: 1–3, 1–1, 0–7, 2–11
		four players 1	Goals	Fondelli 4

Cancelled^{[note 1]}

Italy

–

Canada

25 June 2022 18:00	Report	Italy	12–14	Spain	Sopron Lőver Pool, Sopron Referees: Boris Margeta (SLO), Michiel Zwart (NED)
		Score by quarters: 4–5, 6–3, 2–2, 0–4
		Di Somma 3	Goals	Granados 3

Playoffs

27 June 2022 17:00	Report	Italy	17–6	Australia	Alfréd Hajós National Swimming Stadium, Budapest Referees: Frank Ohme (GER), Georgios Stavridis (GRE)
		Score by quarters: 4–0, 3–3, 4–1, 6–2
		Cannella, Del Lungo 3	Goals	Edwards 3

Quarterfinal

29 June 2022 21:00	Report	Hungary	10–11	Italy	Alfréd Hajós National Swimming Stadium, Budapest Referees: Boris Margeta (SLO), David Gómez (ESP)
		Score by quarters: 3–2, 2–4, 1–2, 4–3
		Vámos 3	Goals	Di Fulvio 4

Semifinals

1 July 2022 16:00	Report	Italy	11–10	Greece	Alfréd Hajós National Swimming Stadium, Budapest Referees: Michael Goldenberg (USA), Michiel Zwart (NED)
		Score by quarters: 4–2, 2–3, 1–1, 4–4
		Dolce 3	Goals	Vlachopoulos 3

Final

3 July 2022 20:00	Report	Italy	14–15	Spain	Alfréd Hajós National Swimming Stadium, Budapest Referees: Boris Margeta (SLO), Georgios Stavridis (GRE)
		Score by quarters: 3–3, 0–3, 3–2, 3–1 PSO: 5–6
		Cannella 2	Goals	Granados 4

Women's tournament

Team roster

The following is Italian roster in the Water polo at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships – Women's tournament.^[9]

Head coach: Carlo Silipo

1 Laura Teani GK
2 Chiara Tabani CB
3 Claudia Roberta Marletta D
4 Silvia Avegno D
5 Elisa Queirolo D
6 Sofia Giustini D
7 Domitilla Picozzi D
8 Roberta Bianconi D
9 Giulia Emmolo D
10 Valeria Palmieri CF
11 Giuditta Galardi CF
12 Giulia Viacava CB
13 Caterina Banchelli GK

Group A

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Italy	3	2	1	0	48	21	+27	5	Quarterfinals
2	Hungary (H)	3	2	0	1	55	21	+34	4	Playoffs
3	Canada	3	1	1	1	36	20	+16	3	Playoffs
4	Colombia	3	0	0	3	11	88	−77	0

Source: Sportresult
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head number of goals scored; 5) Goal difference.
(H) Hosts

20 June 2022 19:30	Report	Canada	7–7	Italy	Alfréd Hajós National Swimming Stadium, Budapest Referees: Georgios Stavridis (GRE), Andrew Carney (AUS)
		Score by quarters: 2–4, 3–2, 1–1, 1–0
		McKelvey, Wright 2	Goals	Giustini 2

22 June 2022 21:00	Report	Italy	10–9	Hungary	Alfréd Hajós National Swimming Stadium, Budapest Referees: Boris Margeta (SLO), Andrew Carney (AUS)
		Score by quarters: 3–4, 2–2, 3–1, 2–2
		Avegno, Marletta 2	Goals	Parkes 3

24 June 2022 19:30	Report	Italy	31–5	Colombia	Alfréd Hajós National Swimming Stadium, Budapest Referees: Anbar Anbar (KUW), Dion Willis (RSA)
		Score by quarters: 5–2, 7–0, 6–2, 13–1
		Avegno 6	Goals	Restrepo 2

Quarterfinals

28 June 2022 13:00	Report	Italy	17–7	France	Alfréd Hajós National Swimming Stadium, Budapest Referees: Helene Painchaud (CAN), Maro Savinović (CRO)
		Score by quarters: 3–2, 4–1, 6–1, 4–3
		Giustini 6	Goals	Guillet 4

Semifinals

30 June 2022 16:00	Report	Italy	6–14	United States	Alfréd Hajós National Swimming Stadium, Budapest Referees: Georgios Stavridis (GRE), David Gómez (ESP)
		Score by quarters: 0–3, 2–3, 1–4, 3–4
		Avegno, Bianconi 2	Goals	five players 2

Third place game

2 July 2022 14:30	Report	Italy	5–7	Netherlands	Alfréd Hajós National Swimming Stadium, Budapest Referees: Maro Savinović (CRO), Georgios Stavridis (GRE)
		Score by quarters: 2–1, 2–1, 0–2, 1–3
		Giustini, Marletta 2	Goals	seven players 1

Notes

^ The match, originally scheduled for 23 June 2022, was postponed due to health concerns.^[8]

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