Massimiliano Rosolino

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Massimiliano Rosolino
Competitor for Flag of Italy Italy
Men’s Swimming
Olympic Games
Gold 2000 Sydney 200 m individual medley
Silver 2000 Sydney[1] 400 m freestyle
Bronze 2000 Sydney 200 m freestyle
Bronze 2004 Athens[2] 4x200 m freestyle relay
World Aquatics Championship
Gold 2001 Fukuoka 200 m individual medley
Silver 1998 Perth 200 m freestyle
Silver 2001 Fukuoka 4x200 m freestyle relay
Silver 2007 Melbourne[3] 4x100 m freestyle relay
Bronze 2003 Barcelona[4] 200 m individual medley
World Championships (SC)
Gold 2006 Shanghai 4x200 m Freestyle
Silver 2000 Athens[5] 200 m Freestyle
Silver 2008 Manchester 400 m Freestyle
Bronze 1999 Hong Kong 400 m Freestyle
Bronze 2000 Athens 400 m Freestyle
Bronze 2000 Athens 200 m Medley
Bronze 2006 Shanghai 400 m Freestyle
Bronze 2006 Shanghai[6] 200 m freestyle
Bronze 2008 Manchester 200 m Freestyle
Bronze 2008 Manchester 4x200 m Freestyle
European Championships (LC)
Gold 2000 Helsinki 200 m Freestyle
Gold 2000 Helsinki 200 m Medley
Gold 2000 Helsinki 4x200 m Freestyle
Gold 2002 Berlin 4x200 m Freestyle
Gold 2004 Madrid 4x200 m Freestyle
Gold 2006 Budapest 4x100 m Freestyle
Gold 2006 Budapest 4x200 m Freestyle
Gold 2008 Eindhoven 4x200 m Freestyle
Silver 1997 Seville 200 m Freestyle
Silver 1997 Seville 400 m Freestyle
Silver 1999 Istanbul 200 m Medley
Silver 2002 Berlin 400 m Freestyle
Silver 2006 Budapest 200 m Freestyle
Silver 2006 Budapest 400 m Freestyle
Silver 2008 Eindhoven 400 m Freestyle
Silver 2008 Eindhoven 4x100 m Freestyle
Bronze 1995 Vienna 4x200 m Freestyle
Bronze 1999 Istanbul 200 m Freestyle
Bronze 2002 Berlin 200 m Freestyle
Bronze 2004 Madrid 200 m Medley
Bronze 2008 Eindhoven 200 m Freestyle

Massimiliano ("Massi") Rosolino (born July 11, 1978) is an Italian swimmer.

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[edit] Biography

Born in Naples (Santa Lucia) of an Italian father, Salvatore, and Australian mother, Carolyn, he moved to Australia at the age of three, coming back to Italy at six. Rosolino declared about his beginnings as a swimmer:

I learned to float by sheer chance at the age of 4. Instead of the common arm floating bands, they made me swim with a headboard. Unfortunately it had a hole, and by the time I finally got out of the small and deep pool, the headboard had drowned... The first real swimming course I took was when I was 6 years old, and after that, lesson by lesson, I got to the pre-competition level. I always had a hard life, even though I was physically well-built, I always had to fight to become number 1, and even though I won a lot of races, I remember every race with emotion: the first regional championships, the national ones, the Young Europeans, and of course all the stomach aches I had.

In 2002 he moved back to Australia to train with coach Ian Pope at the Melbourne Vicentre Club.

His first participation in the Olympics was in 1996 at Atlanta. He reached three finals (200 m, 400 m and 4x200 m freestyle), scoring sixth in all of them. Rosolino declared he was unsatisfied by these results, in spite of the great improvements he showed, and that he would have to work hard to reach the highest level.

At Sydney, in 2000, he won three medals. He won the 200 m medley (setting an Olympic Record), while in the 400 m freestyle he finished behind an unbeatable Ian Thorpe. In the 200 m freestyle he was third: he was beaten again by the Australian champion and also by the winner, Pieter van den Hoogenband from Netherlands.

The 2004 games in Athens proved less satisfactory: Rosolino managed to achieve only a third place finish in the 4x200 m freestyle relay final.

Besides these results, Rosolino won one gold (200 m medley, Fukuoka 2001), two silver and one bronze medal at several Swimming World Championships. These are matched by one gold medal, one silver and three bronze medals in 25m pool events. At the European Championship his scores included 3 silver and 3 bronze medals, plus five gold, 3 silver and one bronze in 25m swimpool editions. He currently (2006) holds the Italian 200 m medley and 800 m freestyle records. Rosolino's popular nickname is Cagnaccio (Bad Dog).

[edit] Personal bests

In long-course swim pools Rosolino's personal bests are:

  • 100 m freestyle: 49.35
  • 200 m freestyle: 1:46.60 (Italian record)
  • 400 m freestyle: 3:43.40 (European record)
  • 800 m freestyle: 7:50.40
  • 200 m ind. medley: 1:58.98 (Italian record)









[edit] 57 Medals

_ _ Individuals Relay Total
Manifestation Editions Gold Silver Bronze Gold Silver Bronze Gold Silver Bronze Total
Olympics 2 (2000/2004) 1 1 1 - - 1 1 1 2 4
World Championships (LC) 5 (1998-2007) 1 1 1 - 2 - 1 3 1 5
European Championships (LC) 8 (1995-2008) 2 7 5 5 1 1 7 8 6 21
World Championships (SC) 5 (1999-2008) - 1 6 1 - 1 1 1 7 9
European Championships (LC) 10 (1998-2007) 7 7 4 - - - 7 7 4 18
_ 30 (1995-2008) 11 18 15 5 3 2 17 20 20 57

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