Alessandro Terrin

Alessandro Terrin
Personal information
Full name Alessandro Terrin
Nationality  Italy
Born 11 July 1985
Dolo, Italy
Height 193 cm (6 ft 4 in)
Weight 95 kg (209 lb; 15.0 st)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Breaststroke
Club Aurelia Nuoto

Alessandro Terrin (born 11 July 1985) is a male Italian swimmer. He represented Italy at the 2008 Olympic Games in the 100 m breaststroke and the 4×100  medley relay swimming events.[1]

His favourite event is the 50 m breaststroke: he won several medals in this event and became European champion at the 2006 European LC Championships in Budapest together with Oleg Lisogor; he also won a silver medal at the 2006 SC World Championships in Shanghai.

At the 2008 European SC Championships in Rijeka he won a gold medal in the 4×50 m medley relay event, where the Italian team set the current European record and world's best performance.

Personal bests

He currently holds 1 world's best performance (WB), 1 European record (ER) and 1 Italian records (IR). His personal bests (as of the 27 May 2009) are:

Event Long course (year) Short course (year)
50 m breaststroke 27.25 (2009) 26.55 (2008)
100 m breaststroke 1:01.35 (2005) 58.79 (2006)
4×50 m medley relay 1:32:91 (2008) WB ER
4×100 m medley relay 3:34.32 (2008) IR

References