The 52nd Edition of Trofeo Settecolli Clear – Swimming International Competition will see the participation of about 700 athletes representing 36 countries: Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Holland, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Lithuania, Moldavia, Panama, Peru, Russia, Scotland, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tobago and Trinidad, Ukraine, USA, Tunisia, Turkey.
26 athletes will compose the Italian Team. Here below the composition of the Italian Team:

Niccolò Bonacchi Esercito / Nuotatori Pistoiesi
Gabriele Detti Esercito / Nuoto Livorno
Luca Dotto Forestale / Larus Nuoto
Edoardo Giorgetti Fiamme Oro / CC. Aniene
Filippo Magnini Team Lombardia
Marco Orsi Fiamme Oro / Uisp Bologna
Gregorio Paltrinieri Fiamme Or – Coopernuoto
Luca Pizzini Carabinieri / IC Bentegodi
Matteo Rivolta Fiamme Oro / Team Insubrika
Simone Sabbioni Esercito – Swim Pro SS9
Michele Santucci Fiamme Azzurre / Larus Nuoto
Andrea Toniato Fiamme Gialle / Team Veneto
Federico Turrini Esercito / Nuoto Livorno

Ilaria Bianchi Fiamme Azzurre / Azzurra 91
Martina Caramignoli Fiamme Oro / Aurelia Nuoto
Diletta Carli Fiamme Oro / Tirrenica Nuoto
Arianna Castiglioni Fiamme Gialle / Team Insubrika
Erika Ferraioli Esercito / CC. Aniene
Chiara Masini Luccetti Forestale / Nuoto Livorno
Alice Mizzau Fiamme Gialle / Team Veneto
Erica Musso Fiamme Oro / AN Savona
Margherita Panziera CC Aniene
Federica Pellegrini CC Aniene
Stefania Pirozzi Fiamme Oro / CC Napoli
Aurora Ponselè Esercito / CC Aniene
Carlotta Zofkova Forestale / Imola Nuoto

The Technical Staff of the Italian National Team is composed by the Technical Director Cesare Butini, the Federal councillor Roberto Del Bianco, the Coordinator of technical-scientific area Marco Bonifazi, the Trainer Marco Lancissi and the Federal Trainers Claudio Rossetto, Stefano Morini, Stefano Franceschi, Tamas Gyertyannfy, Gianni Leoni and Fabrizio Bastelli and the Technical Trainer Matteo Giunta.

Yannick Agnel
He was born in Nimes (France) on 9th June 1992. From his juniores continental victories in 2009 when he was seventeen years old, he was defined by transalpine as the rising star of freestyle middle-distance race. His International debut in seniores rank occurred at the European Swimming Championships in Budapest (Hungary) in 2010. Here he won one gold medal in 400m-freestyle with 3'46"17 ahead the German Paul Biedermann, world champion in 200m and 400m-freestyle and world record man. During this event he won the silver medal in 4x100m-freestyle (with FabienGilot, William Meynard and Alain Bernard) and the bronze medal in 4x200m-freestyle (with Clément Lefert, Hanton Harrambouré and Jérémy Starvius). He won 3 medals at the Olympic Games in London 2012: his first individual Olympic gold is won in 200m-freestyle, his favourite race. Then he won another gold in 4x100m-freestyle relay. In 2014 he won a bronze medal in 200m-freestyle at the European Championships in Berlin. Just at the end of the competition he decided to come back to France for his training, after almost two years experience in USA at the North Baltimore Aquatic Club, where Michael Phelps swam.
Yannick is son of a female nurse and a manager of human resources. He has called as the 80’s French tennis player Noah: absolute myth in France. Agnel has begun swimming at the age of eight years when a neighbour saw his talent and invited his parents to register their son to a swimming club.

Therese Alshammar
She was born in Solna, a Stockholm county, in Sweden on 26th August 1977. She is one of the strongest swimmers of all time. She won three Olympic, 25 World and 43 European Championships medals. Therese is one of the tallest athletes of the competition and she is a specialist in quick races in freestyle and butterfly. She is trained by the ex Sweden swimmer, and her current partner, Johan Wallberg. The phenomenon Alshammar is blown up in 1992, when she was 15 years old. In that year she won her first national seniores title in 100m-backstroke. The Scandinavian athlete was in Sweden team that participated in European Championships in Sheffield, ranking forth in 100m-backstroke. Her carrier is extraordinary: 8 medals at World Championships, since Fukuoka 2001 and Shanghai 2011; 3 times on podium at the Olympic Games in Sidney 2000; 18 medals at the Championships in short course, since Goteborg 1997 and Dubai 2010; 21 podia at the European Championships, since Seville 1997 and Budapest 2010. Twenty-two years of carrier always on top. The only her anguish is to not win a gold medal at the Olympic Games; after the maternity period of eighteen months, before the European Championships in Berlin, her aim is to participate in Rio 2016 because, as she recently said: “One thing is not ended until you give up to reach it and I will be ready for Rio”.

Ilaria Bianchi
She was born in Castel San Pietro Terme, near Bologna, on 6th January 1990. Twice Olympic champion, ranked fifth in London 2012; European and World champion in short course in 2012, she is the Italian record holder in 100m-butterfly. In 2015 she reaches the best seasonal Italian performance in 100m-butterfly at the Absolute Spring Championships occurred in April in Riccione. Thanks to sacrifice, work and dedication, she slings her explosiveness and she flies on water such as her international rivals, that are taller that her 170cm and with a larger wingspan. Trained in Bologna by federal technician Fabrizio Bastelli – with NC Azzurra 91 group of Mirco Di Tora, Arianna Barbieri, Stefano Mauro Pizzamiglio and Luca Leonardi – she is one of the most interesting athlete in Italian female swimming thanks to her technical skills and her simple and spontaneous communication way. Against star system, she tells about herself with few words and smile irrespective of results. Huge fan of cars and motors, she is in romantic relationship with a mechanic. She loves garnished nails and involves her friends and colleagues through social networks.
László Cseh
He was born in Budapest on 3rd December 1985. Wide-skilled athlete, from dolphin crawl to backstroke, he becomes the European answer to the American champions Michael Phelps and Ryan Lochte in 200m and 400m-medley. During his long and important carrier, he wins five Olympic, nine World (one gold medal in 400m-medley in Montreal World Championships 2005) and nineteen European medals. Among them one gold in 200m-medley, one silver in 200m-butterfly and one bronze in 4x100m-medley in Berlin 2014. The 2015 begins with an important decision for Laszlo: trained by his past coach Plagany Zsolt, leaving the severe György Turi. Cseh is still the European record holder in 200m-butterfly, and 200m and 400m-medley. When he doesn’t train, he adores fishing and photography to express himself.

Inge Dekker
She was born on 18th August 1985 in Assen in Holland. Specialized in butterfly and freestyle, she conquered an Olympic bronze at the Olympic Games in Athens 2004. Her international debut was in short course at the European Championships in Anversa 2001. She went on the podium two times ranking third in 50m-butterfly and in 4x100m-freestyle relay at the World Championships in Melbourne 2007. Together with the Dutch sprinters Hinkelien Schreuder, Chantal Groot and Marleen Veldhuis won gold medal reaching the world record in 4x100m-freestyle at the Shanghai World Championships in 2006. She conquered the individual gold in 100m-butterfly at the European Championships in Budapest 2006. In Dutch relay she established the world record in 4x100m-freestyle with 3:33.62 at the European Championships in Eindhoven. This record was overcome from Australia at the Commonwealth Games 2014. She conquered two silver medals in 4x100m-freestyle and 4x100m-medley at the Berlin European Championships during last summer. She won three gold (4x50m, 4x100m and 4x200m-freestyle) and one bronze medal in 50m-butterfly in short course at the competition in Doha. Also her younger sister, Lia, is in Dutch swimming team, but she is specialized in breaststroke. The real aim of Inge is an individual medal at the Olympic Games in Rio 2016: “I think about this event – Inge says – from the end of the Games of London, and I am training from three years to be on top for the next summer”.


Ranomi Kromowidjojo
She is the Queen of speed. She was born in Holland, in Sauwerd, on 20th August 1990. She has a beautiful complexion and somatic due to her Indonesian (maternal grandparents) and Suriname origins (dad). At the London Olympic Games 2012 she wins in 50m and 100m-freestyle, establishing, in both specialties, the event record. Already an Olympic champion thanks to her success in Beijing 2008 in 4x100m-freestyle, now she is trained by Christiaan Sloof. In 2014 she won five medals in short course at the World Championships in Doha: 4 gold (50m-freestyle and 4x50m, 4x100m and 4x200m-freestyle relay) and one bronze in 100m-freestyle. In 2015 she reached the third seasonal world chronometric performance in 50m-freestyle. She obtained the greatest successes with Jacco Verhaeren – ex trainer of Pieter Van den Hoogenband (he is one of few athletes to have a sport facility dedicated to in Eindhoven) and Inge de Bruijn – nowadays the number one in Australia. She likes to listen to Black Eyed Peas, surf the internet and post on all the social networks; she is a very good cook and has a Chinese ideogram of water tattooed on her right wrist.

Camille Lacourt
He was born in Nabona (france) on 22nd April 1985. He is specialized in 50m and 100m-backstroke. Since 2010 to 2013 he was one of the best backstroke swimmer in the world. He won three gold medals in 50m and 100m-backstroke and in 4x100m at the European Championships in Budapest in 2010. This was the beginning of the best period of his carrier: he won three gold medals (in 50m and 100m-backstroke and 4x100m-medley) and one silver medal in 50m-backstroke in World Championships in Shanghai 2011 and Barcelona 2013. In 2014 his carrier had a little stop because of a hip benign tumour that was removed with success. Then he came back to the races in December. In 2015 he reaches the best performance in 50m-backstroke. In 2012 he was named as the sexiest athlete in London Olympic Games. For this reason he participates in several commercials and he is hosted in several TV talk shows. The French champion married the top model Valerie Begue in 2013 and he has a son, Jazz.
Filippo Magnini
Known as Pippo, he was born in Pesaro, in Marche, on 2nd February 1982. He is the team captain of Italian National team. As well as Matt Biondi and Alexander Popov, he is two times world champion in 100m-freestyle in two different editions, three times European champion, moreover reigning. He conquered 42 international medals (21 golds), despite the use of superbody that had heavily influenced his carrier during his maximum growth in the biennium 2008-2009. During that time he could be qualified neither in Olympic nor in World finals in Rome because of few hundredths. Super-muscles physical athletes that were favoured by using swimsuits, helping floatation and making the aquatic skills difficult, preceded him. In 2014 he conquered one bronze medal at the European Championships in Berlin in 4x100m-freestyle; he won one silver in 4x200m-freestyle and one bronze in 4x50m at the World Championships in Doha. In 2015 he reaches the best seasonal Italian performance in 200m-freestyle at the Absolute Italian Championships in Riccione. He swam the 100m-freestyle in 48”79 at the Spring competition in Riccione, becoming the only athlete in the world to swim under 49” for 12 consecutive years. Only Pieter Van Den Hoogenband and Michael Phelps are near his time. Both under 49” for nine consecutive years. Grown in Vis Sauro Nuoto, also dedicating himself to breaststroke, then he trained in RN Torino and Larus Nuoto with the coach Claudio Rossetto obtaining great success. After the London Olympic Games, he moved to Team Lombardia and shared his technical choices with his fiancée Federica Pellegrini. Good dancer and beach-volley player, in September 2008 was the correspondent from Honduras in the sixth edition of Raidue reality show “L’isola dei famosi” with Simona Ventura. In 2011, acting himself, he participated in the fiction “Come un delfino” with Raoul Bova. He loves cinema, music, play station, motors and he is a fan of Inter football team. He is a good friend of Valentino Rossi and Daniel Hackett. Sensitive to social problems, Magnini is a testimonial of AIL, Friend and Ambassador of Foundation LAUREUS and SOS Children’s Villages.

Florent Manadou
In France he is defined, first of all by the press, as “the brother of Laure”. He was born in Villeurbanne, in France, on 12th November 1990. Specialized in freestyle and butterfly races, he is the current Olympic champion in 50m-freestyle. He is the brother of the famous French swimmer Laure, historical rival of Federica Pellegrini, both winners of one gold medal at the Olympic Games. This makes them the two brothers winners of an Olympic medal in swimming. He reached the tenth time in 50m-freestyle in London 2012, but he won the final race with 21”34, ranking ahead César Cielo and Cullen Jones, becoming the first French athlete to win this race at the Olympic Games. He won gold medals in the 50m-dolphin crawl, 50m, 100m and 4x100m-freestyle at the European Championships in Berlin in 2014. He won also the 50m-backstroke, 50m and 4x100m-freestyle in Doha. Just here, on 5th December 2014, he became the fastest man in the history of swimming, with 20”26 at the speed of 8,8 km/h in 50m-freestyle. His carrier knew a crisis period after the Olympic victory in London: the difficulty to diving again, the loss of his best friend in a motorcycle accident, the bad result ranking fifth at the World Championships in Barcelona 2013. In 2012 at the eve of the Olympic final the famous transalpine magazine “L’Express” published an article titled “Manadou, a name that isn’t strong anymore”. This was a boomerang. Florent was defined “an average swimmer” but this view was wrong.

Takeshi Matsuda
He was born in Nobeoka, in Japan, on 23rd June 1984. Always specialist in butterfly, he participated in four Olympic Games: Sidney 2000, Athens 2004, Beijing 2008, London 2012. He didn’t win any medals at Athens but he won two bronze medals in “his” 200m-butterfly and one silver in 4x100m-medley. Takeshi was also a protagonist at the World Championships in Rome 2008 (one bronze in 200m-butterfly) and in Shanghai (one silver in 200m-butterfly). Shy and discreet, he began swimming when he was four years old at the local swimming pool in Nobeola, a rural city with few swimming culture. Since then he is trained by the technical trainer Yumiko Kuze, a female coach. This is very rare in male swimming world. Kuze was a swimmer who didn’t reach great results and began to train as a volunteer at the local swimming pool in Nobeoka.
Ruta Meilutyte
She was born in Kaunas (Lithuania), on 19th March 1997. She is the rising phenomenon in breaststroke in the world. She shined in London Olympic Games where, at the age of only 15 years, she won in 100m-breaststroke, becoming the second Lithuanian athlete to win a gold medal behind Daina Gudzineviciute in Sydney 2000. Trained by Jon Rudd at Plymouth College, she holds the world record in 50m with 29”48 and in 100m-breaststroke with 1’04”35 settled during Barcelona World Championships where she won gold medal in 100m and the silver medal in 50m with seven hundredths delay behind the Russian Yulia Efimova, that was then found positive at doping control in winter. At the age of seventeen, after her participation in Junior Olympic Games of the previous year, she became the first and only athlete to win the gold medal at the main international competitions both at youth and absolute levels. After the victories at the Junior Olympic Games in Asiatic land, she won the gold medal in 50m-breaststroke at the European Championships in Berlin. This specialty gave her the victory at the World Championships in short course in Doha 2014 and a silver medal in 100m-breaststroke. Her mother died when Ruta was only 4 years old and she inherited her physical characteristics and swim skills. She isn’t particularly tall (172 cm), but she has very big feet; when she was 13 years old, she already wore number 43, while nowadays she wears 44.

Marco Orsi
Called “Bomber”, he was born in Budrio on 11th December 1990. Specialized in short distances (50m and 100m) in freestyle and relay. He is trained by Roberto Obaldi. His debut occurred at Junior European Championships in Anversa in 2007. The following year he participated in the Junior World Championships on July in Monterrey in Mexico, where he conquered the gold medal in 4x100m-freestyle and ranked fifth in 4x100m-medley. A month after the Junior European Championships in Belgrade he went on the podium three times: one silver in 4x100m-freestyle relay and one bronze in 4x100m-medley relay and in 100m-freestyle. He was called to participate in the European Championships in 25m-pool in Fiume for the season 2008/2009. At his first participation in absolute rank he won the 50m final and a silver medal in 4x50m-freestyle. On 6th March 2009 he established the Italian record with 21”82 in 50m-freestyle at the Spring Italian Championships in Riccione, becoming the first Italian swimmer to break the wall of 22” in distance. During summer he was called for the World Championships in Rome. Here he ranked fifth in 4x100m. On 22nd November of the same year, in Riccione, he swam the 50m in short course under 21” at the Winter Italian Championships 2009. At the end of 2010, he participated in European and World Championships winning one gold in 4x50m-freestyle, and two silver medals in medley relay and 50m in 25m-short course. On 5th December 2014, at the World Championships in Doha, he conquered the silver and the Italian record in 50m-freestyle with 20”69 in short course, and after two weeks the Italian record in long course in 50m-freestyle (21”64) and in short course in 100m-freestyle (46”12). In 2015 he holds the best national performance in 50m-freestyle. It is said that “Bomber” has a big heart and that his strength is to control his emotionality, allowing his fragility. At the end of each competition, he often thanks his mother and tortellini, a Bolognese delicacy that he controls to maintain a balance between physical condition and training. He is less strong with Nutella.

Gregorio Paltrinieri
He is an authentic Emilian. He was born in Carpi on 5th September 1994. European champion in long course (2012) and in short course (2012), one bronze (2013) and ranked fifth in Olympic Games (2012) in 1500m-freestyle, he represents the future of growing Italian swimming. In 2014 at the European Championships in Berlin, he conquered the gold medal in 1500m-freestyle establishing the continental record with 14’39’’33. In December he won the gold medal in 1500m-freestyle in short course at the World Championships in Doha, holding the European record of 14’16’’10. At the Italian Championships in Riccione, he reaches the best world record of 2015 in 1500m-freestyle. At the centre of the federal technical project in Ostia, Paltrinieri is a very good friend of Gabriele Detti, “minipote” of Moro. They are called “the different Twins” of Italian swimming, following the duo Massimiliano Rosolino-Emiliano Brembilla. They spend a lot of time in course, on books of their diploma and play station. Fan of Juventus football team, Greg has always cultivated his passion for basketball and for New York Knicks, for music and in particular for rap music. His family was involved in the earthquake happened in Emilia when he won the European title in May 2012. His grandparents’ house in Mirandola was destroyed, while the house of his parents in Carpi suffered huge damages, making them to sleep in canvas.

Federica Pellegrini
The “queen” of Italian swimming was born in Milan on 5th August 1988 and lives between Spinea and Verona, at few steps from the federal centre where she trains. She is the only woman in swimming, and in Italian sport, who will break all the records and win any medal. One Olympic gold and silver; four World gold, two silver and one bronze medals; four European gold, one silver and three bronze, in addition to 15 medals in World and European competitions in short course and eleven world records. A swimmer who is making the history of Italian sport. Federica Pellegrini won the first Olympic gold in female swimming in Beijing Olympic Games on 13th August 2008 in 200m-freestyle. She doubled 200m and 400m-freestyle in two successive editions of World Championships in Rome 2009 and Shanghai 2011, establishing the still not broken world records with 1’52”98 and 3’59”15. She also overcame the great slam of Massimiliano Rosolino in 200m-medley, winning in 200m-freestyle in Beijing Olympic Games 2008, World Championships 2009 in Rome, in European Championships 2010 in Budapest, in World Championships 2011 in Shanghai, in European Championships 2012 in Debrecen and in European Championships 2014 in Berlin. The last 23rd August, after two years, she confirmed herself as European champion in 200m-freestyle winning the gold medal with 1’56”01, and becoming the only athlete to win three consecutive continental titles for this distance. Not even great European swimmers such as Laure Manadou and Franziska Van Almsick were be able to win this challenge. In addition to her victory in 200m-freestyle, Federica closed the Berlin European Championships winning another gold in 4x200m and one bronze medal in 4x100m-freestyle. The carrier of national Fede is growing in emotions and successes from her first conquered Italian title when she was only 14 years old. During her carrier three clubs – Serenissima in Mestre, DDS in Milan and CC Aniene in Rome – and eight coaches with various vicissitudes, among them the premature passing away of TC Alberto Castagnetti: “a master, a second father”. On 23rd September 2014 Pellegrini declared to break her collaboration with French coach Philippe Lucas and her will to be trained by Matteo Giunta with whom she wants to participate in the Olympic Games in Rio 2016, focusing only on 200m-freestyle, leaving the 400m. Aspired by sponsors, catwalks and television programs, she is often at the centre of gossip. She is in relationship with Filippo Magnini since 2011. She loves her tattoos, that she calls life photos, such as her nail polishes, shoes, plants, food – like her mom’s Parmisan – plush lion cubs of her teenage and her secret love, the white and little cat called Neve.

Sarah Sjöström
She was born in Handen (Sweden), on 17th August 1993. In 2014, the rising star of world swimming reconfirmed herself as a champion reaching the world record in 50m-butterfly with 24”43 at the Sweden Championships on 5th July 2014S, breaking for the first time the wall of 25”. At the Berlin European Championships, she won three gold (4x100m and 100m-freestyle and 50m-dolphin crawl), and four silver medals (100m-dolphin crawl, 50m and 4x200m-freestyle and 4x100m-medley). She reaches the best seasonal time in 2015 both in 50m and in 100m-dolphin crawl. She trains with Carl Jenner in Stockholm. She became European champion in 2008 when she was only 14 years old. During the World Championships 2009 in Rome, she amazed all winning in 100m butterfly and then she confirmed herself in European Championships in Budapest 2010. Sarah is very active on social networks: she likes to share her private and poolside moments both on Facebook and Twitter, and from her posted photos, she seems to love sweets.

Cameron Van der Burgh
He was born in Pretoria, in South-Africa, on 25th May 1988. He conquered the Olympic title in 100m-breaststroke in the London Olympic Games, fixing the world record of 58”46 and dedicating his success to his friend-rival Alexander Dale Oen, Norwegian breaststroker tragically passed away three months before the competitions. “When I touched the wall”- VDB tells - “I looked up and I thought that maybe Alex was pointing me, laughing and thinking: how could you go so fast?”. Already winner in 50m-breaststroke in 2009, just at Stadio del Nuoto in Rome, he claimed the World record for the distance both in long course with 26”67 and short course with 25”94. In 2008 he participated in the Olympic Games, but Beijing didn’t bring good luck to him: he was eliminated in the 100m-breaststroke semi-finals and he ranked seventh in the south African medley relay. In 2013 he conquered one gold medal in 50m-breaststroke and one silver medal in 100m-breaststroke at the World Championships in Barcelona. In 2015 he reaches the best world seasonal forth performance both in 50m and 100m-breaststroke.

Evelyn Verrasztó
She was born in Budapest on 17th July 1989. She is the daughter of Zoltan – silver in 200m-backstroke and bronze in 400m-medley at the Olympic Games in Moscow 1980 – who is her trainer, and she is the sister of Dávid Verrasztó with whom she has a strong connection. Her international debut at senior level was at the European Championships in Eindhoven 2008, where she conquered the silver medal in 200m-medley. In 2010 she won the gold in 4x200m-freestyle at the European Championships in Budapest, competition in which she also won a silver medal in 200m-medley. In 2014 she conquered the bronze in 4x200m-freestyle in Berlin. In her carrier there aren’t World and Olympic medals, two gaps to be filled at the World Championships in Kazan this year and at the Olympic Games in Rio 2016. The real interest of Evelyn, when she isn’t involved in her training, is the sea where she loves to relax. Verrasztó is one of the most loved athletes in her country and for this reason she is often hosted in TV shows.