Alessia Filippi
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Medal record | |||
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Competitor for Italy | |||
Women’s Swimming | |||
World Championships - Short Course | |||
Silver | 2006 Shanghai[1] | 400m Individual Medley | |
European Championships (LC) | |||
Gold | 2006 Budapest | 400m Individual Medley | |
Gold | 2008 Eindhoven | 400m Individual Medley | |
Gold | 2008 Eindhoven | 800m Freestyle | |
Bronze | 2006 Budapest | 200m Individual Medley | |
Bronze | 2008 Eindhoven | 4x200 Freestyle |
Alessia Filippi (born June 23, 1987 in Rome) is an Italian swimmer.
Filippi excels in backstroke and medley races, as well as in middle-distance freestyle (400 to 800 m).
She was the first Italian woman to win a gold medal at any international competition, by winning the 400 m medley at the 2006 European Swimming Championships in Budapest.[citation needed] She also won a bronze medal in the same championship, and a silver medal in the 2006 short-course World Championships. In December 2006 she confirmed her title at the 2006 short-course European Championships in Helsinki.
[edit] Personal bests
She holds Italian records (long-course swimming pools) in the following races:
- 400 m medley: 4:35.80
- 200 m medley: 2:13.08
- 200 m backstroke: 2:09.04
- 100 m backstroke: 1:01.52
- 800 m Freestyle: 8:20.70
[edit] External links
- Swim Rankings profile
[edit] References
- ^ Shanghai 2006 results. Retrieved on 2007-07-24.