Italy dominates diving and swimming at the European Championships in Paris
Updated 3 months ago2 new reports, including Rai News, la Repubblica.
The short version
Italy dominated the European Water Sports Championships in Paris with four golds in a single day. Ginevra Taddeucci won the 10 km of open water swimming, while Chiara Pellacani won four golds in dives, setting a new record.
Ginevra Taddeucci won gold in the 10km open water swim at the European Championships in Paris.1,3,4,7 Linda Caponi took bronze in the same race.1,3,7 Chiara Pellacani won four golds in dives, surpassing the record of Tania Cagnotto who had won three in a single European.5,6,7,8
Pellacani won in the 3-meter trampoline, in the event team, in the mixed sync from the trampoline and in the 1-meter trampoline.9 After winning the 10km, Taddeucci criticised the Seine's condition, calling it "full of plastic" and "very dirty".3,4 Taddeucci had already won a bronze in the same discipline two years earlier at the European Open Water Swimming Championships.2
Italy won a total of four golds, one silver and two bronzes in the day.7 Pellacani said he loves sports and wants to write pages of history.9 The 10 km of open water swimming takes place in an open path, typically in a river or in the sea.1,3
“It went well, but what dirty water”
“Good thing it was clean...”
“It's full of plastic”
“I love this sport, I want to write pages of history”
Why it matters
The European Water Sports Championships is a continental competition organised by the Ligue Européenne de Natation (Len) that includes swimming, diving, artistic swimming and other water sports.1,5
The Seine is a 777 km long French river that runs through Paris and is known to have been used as a route for open water swimming competitions.3,4
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