The blue Nicolò Martinenghi won the gold medal in the 100 meters breaststroke at the World Swimming Championships in Budapest.
Martinenghi set a time of 58''26, which brought him ahead of Dutchman Arno Kamminga (58''62) and American Nic Fink (58''65).
This is Italy's first medal in this World Cup in Budapest.
"It is very strange, I am very happy on one side and less on the other, I expected more on the time. It is a hallucinating emotion, the first gold medal in a long course World Championship".
After becoming world champion in the 100 breaststroke Nicolò Martinenghi shouts all the joy of him at the World Swimming Championships in progress in Budapest.
"Today the head has given a lot and the body too - adds the blue to the Rai microphones - The head does a lot, it does everything. Everything that surrounds the pool is what matters and I have learned a lot over the years. responsibility to win the first medal and I hope to start a string of victories "