The Italian team, composed by 26 athletes, will participate in the 54th edition of Trofeo Settecolli/International Swimming Competition, in program at the Stadio del Nuoto in Rome from 23rd to 25th June. The athletes qualified both at individual and relay title for the World Championship in Budapest (23rd-30th July) are called: Ilaria Bianchi (Fiamme Azzurre / Azzurra 91), Giacomo Carini (Fiamme Gialle / Can. Vittonino da Feltre), Martina Carraro (Fiamme Azzurre / Azzurra 91), Arianna Castiglioni (Fiamme Gialle / Team Insubrika), Piero Codia (Esercito / CC Aniene), Gabriele Detti (Esercito / Team Lombardia), Silvia Di Pietro (Carabinieri / CC Aniene), Luca Dotto (Carabinieri / Larus Nuoto), Filippo Magnini (CC Aniene), Nicolò Martinenghi (NC Brebbia), Filippo Megli (FlorentiaNuotoClub), Alessandro Miressi (Fiamme Oro / CN Torino), Alice Mizzau (Fiamme Gialle / Team Veneto), Gregorio Paltrinieri (Fiamme Oro / Coopernuoto), Federica Pellegrini (CC Aniene), Stefania Pirozzi (Fiamme Oro / Canottieri Napoli), Luca Pizzini (Carabinieri / Bentegodi), Simona Quadarella (Fiamme Rosse / CC Aniene), Matteo Restivo (FlorentiaNuotoClub), Fabio Scozzoli (Esercito / Imolanuoto), Federico Turrini (Esercito / Nuoto Livorno), Ivano Vendrame (Esercito / Larus Nuoto). The athletes of Federal Centres of Ostia and Verona join them: Martina Rita Caramignoli (Fiamme Oro / Unicusa Aurelia Nuoto), Ilaria Cusinato (Team Veneto), Lorenzo Glessi (Esercito / Gorizia Nuoto), Carlotta Zofkova (Carabinieri / Imolanuoto). The staff is composed by the technical director Cesare Butini, the federal technicians Stefano Morini, Claudio Rossetto, Stefano Franceschi, Matteo Giunta, Fabrizio Bastelli and Giovanni Leoni, the videoanalyst Ivo Ferretti, the federal doctor Marugo, the trainers Marco Lancissi and Alessandro Conforto, the physiotherapists Stefano Amirante, Marco Morelli and Maurizio Solaroli.
The speech of the technical director Cesare Butini. Settecolli represents a value technical test at exactly 4 weeks before the beginning of Championships in Budapest and the last useful test to complete the National teams. We expect high technical levels, trusting in the maintenance of positive growth trend reached by the young swimmers. The race will be a great sport show occurring at the beautiful Stadio del Nuoto with an excellent edition with athletes coming from about 30 countries. Excellent champions will participate in this competition: the Australian Horton, Magnussen, McEvoy, the British Guy, Peaty, Scott, the Dutch Kromodijojo, Hemskerk, the Japanese Seto, the Hungarians Kapas, Cseh, Bernek, the Danish Blume and Pedersen, the French Bonnet, the South Korean Park and the Swedish Coleman". “In the meanwhile the training of the several National swimming teams continues at high rhythms. During the last days – Butini tells – the upland collegial meeting, with leaders such as Paltrinieri and Detti and other four swimmers (Megli, Proietti Colonna, Cusinato, Franceschi) and the meeting at the Spanish Centre in La Calella ended. Most of athletes of national interest and already qualified for Budapest are involved in the several meetings. The technical direction focused its attention on the athletes involved in international events and in the swimmers that would be the leaders during the Olympic four-year period just begun.”