Appointment from 21st to 23rd June in Rome with the stars of Internazionali di Nuoto / Sette Colli trophy. Let's find out together.

FEMKE HEEMSKERK
She was born in Roelofarendsveen on 21st September 1987. Inspired by Pieter van den Hoogenband and Inge de Bruijn, she dives into water at the age of nine years. Specialized in freestyle, she obtains her better successes in relays. She wins several medals. European champion (Eindhoven ‘08 and London ‘16), World (Rome 2009 and Shanghai 2011) and Olympic champion (Beijing ‘08) in 4x100m-freestyle. She receives great satisfactions also in 4x100m-medley winning the European silver in Berlin, gold in Kazan and in Budapest 2017. At individual level she conquers six European medals: three silver (in 100m in Berlin 2014 and Glasgow 2018, and in 200m in Glasgow 2018), and three bronze medals (in 100m in Budapest and London and in 200m in Berlin). She evaluates to put an end to her carrier after the European Championships in Glasgow, but the four silver medals encourage her to continue to compete until the Olympic Games in Tokyo 2020. She was a rival of Federica Pellegrini. Very active on social network, she loves passing time riding bicycle and playing with her dog.

KATINKA HOSSZU
The Olympic Hungarian athlete is one of the most versatile swimmer in the world. She was born on 3rd May 1989 in Pécs. She is called "Iron Lady" due to the number of races she uses to participate in. In 2004 she debuts at the Olympic Games in Athens. At the age of twenty years she becomes a World champion in 400m-medley at the World Championships in Rome 2009, winning also two bronze medals. After her 4° place in 400m-medley in London 2012, her success seems to be neverending: she wins gold in the two distances of medley in Barcelona 2013 and becomes a star when, at the World Cup since 2012 to 2014, she wins 122 gold medals overall. In Kazan 2015 she wins the double gold in medley. In 2016, at Rio Olympic Games, she becomes an Olympic champion in 100m-backstroke, 200m-medley and 400m-medley setting the World record. For the third time, she is World champion in 200m and 400m in Budapest 2017, winning also the silver in 200m-backstroke and the bronze in 200m-butterfly. At European level she is the top star in 200m-medley since Budapest 2010. Graduated in psychology in USA, she was married with her trainer and manager Shane Tusup.

BOGLARKA KAPAS
She was born in Debrecen on 2nd April 1993. Since she was a child she is a talent. At the Youth European Championships in Praga 2009 she conquers the silver in 200m-butterfly, while at the Youth Olympic Games in Singapore she wins the gold in 400m-freestyle, in 200 m-butterfly and silver in 200m-freestyle. She always declares that her favourite race is the 800m-freestyle. Specialty that she wins at the European Championships in Debrecen 2012. In Berlin 2014, she wins silver in 1500m-freestyle and bronze in 800m and 4x200m. At the World Championships in Kazan she ranks third in 800m-freestyle. In 2016 she is an absolute star: gold poker at the European Championships in London (1500m, 800m, 400m, 4x200m-freestyle). At the Olympic Games in Rio she wins the bronze in 800m-freestyle. Gold in 400m-freestyle in Copenhagen 2017 at the European Championships in short course, winning also the silver in 800m. She is European champion in Glasgow in 200m-butterfly. Graduated in psychology, in an interview, she declares that when all was going bad in pool, she gave up the school parties and friends to focus on the next competition.

MARCO KOCH
Born in Darmstadt, in Germany, on 25th January 1990, he dives into the water for the first time at the age of eight years. On September of the last year leaves his historic technician Alexander Kreisel for a training team supervised by Henning Lambertz. European champion in Berlin 2014 and World champion in Kazan, the year later, in 200m-breaststroke. Silver at the European Championships in London 2016 in the same distance. Great performances also in short course: he wins gold in 200m-breaststroke in Eindhoven 2010, but the following year an injury at his spine avoids him to participate in the World Championships in Shanghai. Two years later, he comes back on the second step of podium at the World Championships in Doha in short course. He is a champion again in 100m and 200m-breaststroke, first at the European Championships in Netanya, then at the World Championships in Windsor 2016. In 2017, at the European Championships in Copenhagen, he wins the silver medal behind the Russian Kirill Prigoda. Since 2012, he is the record holder of Sette Colli in Rome in 200m-breaststroke swum in 2'08"74. He is emotionally connected with the swimmer Reva Foos. He loves reading, playing videogames and listening to music. The water is his comfort-zone, the swimming is his passion.

YASUHIRO KOSEKI
Yasuhiro Koseki was born in Tsuruoka, in Japan, on 14th March 1992. Encouraged by his parents, he starts swimming at the age of four years. During his middle school, he focuses seriously on swimming, a very popular sport in his town. At the Panpacific Championships, during the Gold Coast 2014 and Tokyo 2018, he conquers six medals: three gold (two in 100m-breaststroke and one in 200m-breaststroke) and three silver (two in 4x100m-medley relay and one in 4x100m-mixed medley). At the World Championships in Budapest 2017, he ranks second in 200m-breaststroke with 2’07’’29. The following year, at the World Championships in short course in Hangzhou, he wins two bronze medals in 4x100m-medley relay and in 100m-breaststroke (56"13) at only 12 hundredths behind the winner Cameron van der Burgh. At the Olympic Games in Rio 2016, reaches the final in each of his three races (100m, 200m-breaststroke and 4x100m-medley). His greatest desire is to win a medal at the Olympic Games in Tokyo 2020, following his idol and fellow countryman Kosuke Kitajima. The Japanese athlete loves reading and comics.

RANOMI KROMOWIDJOJO
She was born in Sauwerd, in Holland, on 20th August 1990. Her father comes from Suriname, her grandparents are Indonesian. Among the leaders of speed in the world, Kromowidjojo conquers four Olympic medals, including the gold in 4x100m-freestyle in Beijing 2008 and in 50m and 100m-freestyle in London 2012. 16 World medals in long course with the gold won in 50m-freestyle in Barcelona 2013 and 9 European medals with the gold won in 50m-freestyle in London 2016. She also wins 22 Olympic medals in short course (12 successes) and 26 European medals (18 successes). She reaches the World Championships in Gwangju as vice-champion in 50m-freestyle and butterfly. Holder of several World records, the Dutch sprinter has a chinese ideogramm tatooed on her right wrist. She holds the European record set in 4x100m-freestyle at the World Championships in Rome 2009. The celebration of ten years will be occur at the Stadio del Nuoto, that hosted the event, during the Swimming International Competition-56° Trofeo Sette Colli.