Novara – Historic gold medal for the swimmer Angelica Piacentini on the first day of Mediterranean Cup-Comen Cupa continental event for national teams that compete by fielding their best athletes in the category Girlsunderway at Limassol Olympic Swimming Pool (Cyprus) until Sunday 16 June with the organization by the Cyprus Swimming Federation. In a competition that follows the Olympic program with the addition of the men’s and women’s 4×50 mixed-mixed relays and the men’s and women’s 4×50 mixed freestyle, with the “series” formula, therefore without finals, Piacentiniborn in Magenta in 2010, resident in Cameri and called on this occasion to represent the Italian national team, graduated European champion in the 100m freestyle with the time of 58”30.
Piacentini, who is coached by the coach at Libertas Enrico Ferrero, she preceded the French Clara Thibult at the finish line, second and silver medalist, 22 hundredths behind, and the Belgian Lea Maeva Metzemakers, third and bronze medalist in 58″56. Fifth was the other Italian Carlotta Giannini in 59”16.
And the first time that a representative of Libertas Nuoto Novara climbs on the top step of the podium of the major European competition in the category.
In the recent past (it was 2021) another athlete from Libertas Novara, Giorgia Crepaldi, had won silver in the 200m breaststroke and bronze in the 100m breaststroke in Belgrade.
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