Italian swimmer

Olympic Games2016 Rio de Janeiro1500 m freestyle2020 Tokyo800 m freestyle2020 Tokyo10 km open waterWorld Championships (LC)2015 Kazan1500 m freestyle2017 Budapest1500 m freestyle2019 Gwangju800 m freestyle2015 Kazan800 m freestyle2019 GwangjuTeam open water2013 Barcelona1500 m freestyle2017 Budapest800 m freestyle2019 Gwangju1500 m freestyleWorld Championships (SC)2014 Doha1500 m freestyle2012 Istanbul1500 m freestyle2016 Windsor1500 m freestyle2018 Hangzhou1500 m freestyleEuropean Championships (LC)2012 Debrecen1500 m freestyle2014 Berlin800 m freestyle2014 Berlin1500 m freestyle2016 London800 m freestyle2016 London1500 m freestyle2012 Debrecen800 m freestyle2018 Glasgow800 m freestyle2020 Budapest800 m freestyle2020 Budapest1500 m freestyle2018 Glasgow1500 m freestyle European Open Water C’ships2020 Budapest5 km open water2020 Budapest10 km open water2020 BudapestTeam relayEuropean Championships (SC)2012 Chartres1500 m freestyle2015 Netanya1500 m freestyle2019 Glasgow1500 m freestyle2021 Kazan800 m freestyle2017 Copenhagen1500 m freestyle2021 Kazan1500 m freestyleMediterranean Games2018 Tarragona400:m freestyle2018 Tarragona1500:m freestyleUniversiade2017 Taipei800 m freestyle2017 Taipei1500 m freestyle2017 Taipei10 km marathon

Gregorio Paltrinieri (born 5 September 1994) is an Italian compe*ive swimmer. He is the Olympic and world long course and short course champion and three-times European long course champion in the 1500 m freestyle event at the 2012, 2014 and 2016 European Aquatics Championships, and two-times European long course champion in the 800 m freestyle event. Paltrinieri is a former 1500 m freestyle (short course) world record holder. He also holds the long course European records in the 800 m and 1500 m freestyle events with times of 7:39.27 and 14:33.10.

Contents

• 1 Swimming career
  • 1.1 2011: Junior
  • 1.2 2012: Summer Olympics and European Champion
  • 1.3 2013 World Aquatics Championships
  • 1.4 2014
  • 1.5 2015: World Champion and World Record Holder
  • 1.6 2016: Olympic champion
  • 1.7 2017–2019
  • 1.8 2020
  • 1.9 2021
  • 1.10 2022
• 2 Personal bests
• 3 See also
• 4 References
• 5 External links

Swimming career

Paltrinieri started swimming at a very young age, and until the age of 12, he specialized in breaststroke. However, as he grew, he converted to freestyle, specializing in the longer pool distances.

2011: Junior

His first international success came as a 16-year-old at the 2011 European Junior Swimming Championships in Belgrade, where he won the 1500 metres gold and an 800 metres bronze. Having qualified for the World championships in Shanghai, he did not progress further than the heats, but a few weeks later at the World Junior Championships in Lima, Peru, he was back on the podium with a 1500 metres freestyle silver and an 800 metres bronze.

2012: Summer Olympics and European Champion

In March 2012 Paltrinieri won the Italian 800 metres freestyle *le, and two months later, he left everyone in his wake at the European Championships in Debrecen, defeating renowned Hungarians Gergő Kis and Gergely Gyurta in the 1500 m. His time of 14:48.92 qualified him for the Olympics and, at the time, was the year's second-fastest 1500 m swim, breaking the championship record. He is trained by Stefano Morini. At 2012 Summer Olympics, the 17-year-old Italian advanced to his first Olympic final with the 4th fastest time of 14:50.11. In the final he finished 5th in 14:51.92.

At the end of 2012 Paltrinieri finished 2nd in the 1500 meter freestyle event at the 2012 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m), and was later awarded a gold medal after a positive doping test for Danish swimmer Mads Glæsner. However, upon appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, Glæsner's 1500-meter freestyle gold medal was reinstated based on the fact that a test after that race, two days after his initial positive test following the 400-meter free, was clean. This means that Paltrinieri was returned to his silver medal position in the 1500 m freestyle.

2013 World Aquatics Championships

Paltrinieri competed for Italy at 2013 World Aquatics Championships. He reached his first 800 metres freestyle final at a long course world championship event finishing sixth in 7:50.29. In the 1500 metres freestyle event Paltrinieri won a bronze medal with a time of 14:45.38, establishing a new national record.

2014

In 2014 Paltrinieri at the Italian Swimming Championships in Riccione finished second in 800 metres freestyle event with a time of 7:43.01, behind Gabriele Detti who established a new European record in the distance. Three days later Paltrinieri established a new national record of 14:44.50 in the 1500 m freestyle event. The day before the meet, Paltrinieri had swum an unofficial world best time of 50:56.50 in the 5:km (long course pool) at the Italian indoor distance championships in Riccione.

In August, at the 2014 European Aquatics Championships, Paltrinieri won the 800 m and 1500 m freestyle events establishing the new European record of 14:39.93; with this result he became only the fifth swimmer ever to swim under 14:40.00 in the 1500 m freestyle long course. At the 2014 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) in Doha, Paltrinieri became World champion for the first time with the new European record of 14:16.10, which was also the second fastest time ever swum behind Grant Hackett's world record.

2015: World Champion and World Record Holder

At the 2015 World Aquatics Championships, in Kazan, Paltrinieri won the silver medal in the 800 m, losing to Sun Yang. Later he won the 1500 m, setting a new European record, a race in which Sun did not take part despite having qualified for the final with the second best time after Paltrinieri.

At the end of the year Paltrineri took part at the 2015 European Short Course Swimming Championships in Netanya (Israel); here he established a new 1500 metres freestyle world record of 14:08.06 winning the gold medal ahead fellow Italian and friend Gabriele Detti. The previous record set in 2001 by Grant Hackett was beaten by 2.04 seconds. With the gold medal, Paltrinieri also became the simultaneous holder of the world and European *les, in long course and short course, in the 1500 metres freestyle event.

2016: Olympic champion

At the 2016 Rio Olympics Paltrinieri won the gold medal in the 1500 m freestyle in a time of 14:34.57, having qualified fastest for the final.

2017–2019

In 2017, Paltrinieri confirmed his World Championship gold medal in the 1500m freestyle at the 2017 World Aquatics Championships held in Budapest. He also won a bronze medal in the 800m race, won by teammate Gabriele Detti.

At the 2019 World Aquatics Championships in Gwangju, Paltrinieri won the gold medal in the 800 m, setting the new European record in 7:39.27. Later, after two-straight world *les in the 1500 m, Paltinieri lost the race but ended with the bronze medal.After placing 6th in the men’s 10 km in what was his first World Championships open water race, Paltrinieri won the silver medal in the mixed 5 km team relay.

2020

In August 2020 at the 57th Settecolli Trophy, Paltrinieri swam a time of 14:33.10 in the 1500m freestyle. This performance registered as the second-fastest swim ever (behind only the world record swim by Sun Yang), as well as a new European Record.

2021

At the European Championships in Budapest 2020, held in May 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Paltrinieri won three gold medals in the three races in which he participated in the open water, the 5 and 10 km and the team race. In the same event he also won double silver medal respectively in the 800m freestyle and in the 1500m freestyle.

In mid-June, with the 2020 Summer Olympics just one month away, Paltrinieri contracted mononucleosis and reduced significantly his pool training.Despite the disrupted preparation, Paltrinieri won the silver medal in the 800m freestyle and the bronze medal in the 10 km open water marathon.As the reigning Olympic champion in the 1500m freestyle, he failed to defend his gold medal, finishing in fourth place.

Finishing off the year in December, Paltrinieri competed at the Abu Dhabi Aquatics Festival, held in relation to the 2021 World Short Course Championships, winning a gold medal with his Italy relay teammates in the open water 4×1500 metre mixed relay event. On the fifth day of the World Championships, Paltrinieri ranked fourth in the prelims heats of the 1500 metre freestyle, qualifying for the final with a time of 14:28.11. The following day he placed fourth in the final of the 1500 metre freestyle in 14:21.00. Paltrinieri also participated in a beach clean-up at Al Bahia Beach the week of World Championships compe*ion to help protect the natural habitat of the hawksbill sea turtle.

2022

On the first day of compe*ion on the first leg of the 2022 Marathon Swim World Series, held in May in Setúbal, Portugal, Paltrinieri won the gold medal in the 10 kilometre swim, swimming through waves and currents to finish first in 1 hour, 53 minutes, and 45 seconds. The second and final day, he helped win the silver medal in the 4×1500 metre mixed gender open water relay, anchoring the second Italy relay team across the finish line only behind the first Italy relay team.

Personal bests

See also

• Italian swimmers multiple medalists at the international compe*ions

References

External links

• Gregorio Paltrinieri at FINA
• Gregorio Paltrinieri at SwimRankings.net
• Gregorio Paltrinieri at Olympics.com
• Gregorio Paltrinieri at Olympedia
• Gregorio Paltrinieri at the Italian Olympic Committee (in Italian)