Alessia Filippi

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Medal record
Competitor for Flag of Italy 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.

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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

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