World Swimming Championships Budapest 2022, Martinenghi gold in the 100 breaststroke

Nicolò Martinenghi won the gold medal in the 100 meters breaststroke at the World Swimming Championships in Budapest. The 22-year-old Italian became World Champion in the 100m breaststroke with a super return lap and closing with the Italian record in 58.28. Silver medal for the Dutch Arno Kamminga in 58.62, bronze for the American Nic Fink in 58.65. Martinenghi takes the crown left vacant due to injury by the British baronet Adam Peaty and goes as far as Domenico Fioravanti, the first Italian swimming Olympian (silver in Fukuoka 2001), preceded on the podium of the specialty by Gianni Minervini (silver in Madrid 1986). and bronze in Perth 1991) and followed by former captain of the national team Fabio Scozzoli (silver in Shanghai 2011).