Tokyo 2020, the 4 x 100 sl is silver: relay race in history

Italy wins silver at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics with the men’s 4×100 freestyle relay, second in the final with the new Italian record (3’10 “11). The blue quartet (Alessandro Miressi, Thomas Ceccon, Lorenzo Zazzeri and Manuel Frigo) closes behind the United States who won gold in 3’08 ” 97. Bronze to Australia in 3’10 ” 22. Silver is a historic result. It is the second medal of a relay race of the swimming after the bronze in the 4×200 freestyle by Massimiliano Rosolino, Filippo Magnini, Simone Cercato and Emiliano Brembilla in Athens 2004. “It’s an incredible joy”, they say in chorus in 4 blues. “There are no words, I can’t describe this moment , we wrote a beautiful page in the history of Italian sport “, the words of Zazzeri.” I am delighted to be part of this group: we are united, we hugged each other even before leaving, we were very convinced that we could have a great race “.” We are very happy, we have been really good, a great staff etta – he tells Rai Miressi – We are really happy and happy with this silver “.” We knew we had a good chance for a medal – adds Ceccon -. I made the choice to do both races, since I did well in the backstroke, I couldn’t help but do the same in the relay. Olympic silver is not something for every day “.” For me – concludes Frigo – it was unthinkable only three years ago to be here and now a medal arrives. “MARTINENGHI Swimming also gives Italy the bronze of Nicolò Martinenghi in the 100 breaststroke. The athlete from Varese is third with a time of 58 “33. Gold went to British Adam Peaty in 57 “37 and silver to Dutch Arno Kamminga in 58” 00. Martinenghi brings the breaststroke back to the Olympic podium twenty-one years after Sydney 2000, when Domenico Fioravanti and Davide Rummolo won gold and silver. “I still don’t realize what happened – says the swimmer trained by Marco Pedoja -. It’s a cascade of emotions. I didn’t believe it too much before the race, but I have been looking for and wanting this medal for a long time. I have dreamed of the last 15 meters many times in training. It is fabulous. ” “I dedicate this medal to my first coach Franco who is going through a difficult period. They are strong emotions, one day I will understand it but now I’m on a very high wave and I want to surf it until the end. Yesterday I struggled to fall asleep. I had so many thoughts because today I can understand the emotions that Fioravanti and Rummolo experienced 21 years ago. I also thank very much my coach Marco Pedoja because we both knew where we were starting from and what our goal was “, adds. MALAGO ‘” Two very heavy medals. by Nicolò Martinenghi we could have expected the silver one of the 4×100 freestyle is legendary “, says the president of Coni, Giovanni Malagò, from the Tokyo Aquatics Center. “The boys were all very good, even Santo Condorelli who gave his contribution in the drums. The clarity and strength with which they have always remained there is impressive. Congratulations to all of them and to the Fin”, adds Malagò.