European Championships: Italy bronze 4x100 men, gold Russia

Bronze medal for the blue relay of the 4x100 men at the European Swimming Championships in progress in Budapest.

With a time of 3'11''87, the Azzurri Alessandro Miressi, Lorenzo Zazzeri, Thomas Ceccon and Manuel Frigo were beaten by a whisker by Great Britain, which won silver, while Russia won gold by dominating , in 3'10''41.

In the first fraction, Miressi had finished in first place and with a time of 47''74 he signed the new Italian record on 100.

Two quarters and two fifth places for the Azzurri in the first two finals of the European swimming championships in Budapest

. In the men's 400 freestyle, Gabriele Detti finished in fourth place, just off the podium, just ahead of Marco de Tullio, in a test where he was among the favorites. The gold went to the Russian Martin Malyutin, with a time of 3'44 '' 18, the silver to the Austrian Felix Auboeck and the bronze to the Lithuanian Danas Rapsys. Detti closed his test in 3'46''07. Same fate for colleagues Ilaria Cusinato and Sara Franceschi in the 400 medley. The 21-year-old from Veneto finished fourth ahead of her peer from Livorno. The gold went to the Hungarian Katinka Hosszu, world champion and Olympic reigning, with a time of 4'34''76. The silver went ex aequo to the other Hungarian Viktoria Mihalyvari and to the British Aimee Willmott. However, the time of Cusinato was good, in 4'38 ″ 08.

The Russian Kliment Kolesnikov improved the world record of the 50 backstroke,

which already belonged to him, swimming in 23''93 in a semifinal at the European Championships underway in Budapest. The previous record, 24''00, he had set at the European Championships in Glasgow 2018. In the same test, the Italian Simone Sabbioni won access to the final, with the seventh fastest time.