Italy at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships

Italy competed at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships in Kazan, Russia from 24 July to 9 August 2015. It won at least one medal in all disciplines except high diving.

Italy at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships
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FINA code	ITA
National federation	Federazione Italiana Nuoto
Website	www.federnuoto.it
in Kazan, Russia
Competitors	100 in 6 sports
Medals Ranked 7th	Gold 3 Silver 3 Bronze 8 Total 14
World Aquatics Championships appearances (overview)
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Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Gold	Tania Cagnotto	Diving	Women's 1 m springboard	July 28
Gold	Simone Ruffini	Open water swimming	Men's 25 km	August 1
Gold	Gregorio Paltrinieri	Swimming	Men's 1500 m freestyle	August 9
Silver	Federica Pellegrini	Swimming	Women's 200 m freestyle	August 5
Silver	Gregorio Paltrinieri	Swimming	Men's 800 m freestyle	August 5
Silver	Chiara Masini Luccetti Alice Mizzau Erica Musso Federica Pellegrini	Swimming	Women's 4×200 m freestyle relay	August 6
Bronze	Matteo Furlan	Open water swimming	Men's 5 km	July 25
Bronze	Matteo Furlan	Open water swimming	Men's 25 km	August 1
Bronze	Giorgio Minisini Manila Flamini	Synchronized swimming	Mixed duet technical routine	July 26
Bronze	Giorgio Minisini Mariangela Perrupato	Synchronized swimming	Mixed duet free routine	July 30
Bronze	Tania Cagnotto	Diving	Women's 3 m springboard	August 1
Bronze	Maicol Verzotto Tania Cagnotto	Diving	Mixed 3 m synchronized springboard	August 2
Bronze	Luca Dotto Filippo Magnini Marco Orsi Michele Santucci	Swimming	Men's 4×100 m freestyle relay	August 2
Bronze	Italy women's national water polo team Rosaria Aiello Laura Barzon Roberta Bianconi Tania Di Mario Giulia Enrica Emmolo Teresa Frassinetti Arianna Garibotti Giulia Gorlero Francesca Pomeri Elisa Queirolo Federica Radicchi Chiara Tabani Laura Teani	Water polo	Women's tournament	August 7

Diving

Main article: Diving at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships

Italian divers qualified for the individual spots and the synchronized teams at the World Championships.^[1]

Men

Athlete	Event	Preliminaries		Semifinals		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Andrea Chiarabini	1 m springboard	334.10	20	—		Did not advance
Giovanni Tocci		353.00	16	—		Did not advance
Michele Benedetti	3 m springboard	364.00	35	Did not advance
Tommaso Rinaldi		382.10	30	Did not advance
Francesco Dell'Uomo	10 m platform	388.35	26	Did not advance
Maicol Verzotto		359.35	33	Did not advance
Andrea Chiarabini Giovanni Tocci	3 m synchronized springboard	412.17	5 Q	—		402.00	9
Francesco Dell'Uomo Maicol Verzotto	10 m synchronized platform	362.55	16	—		Did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Preliminaries		Semifinals		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Elena Bertocchi	1 m springboard	208.40	29	—		Did not advance
Tania Cagnotto	1 m springboard	291.25	2 Q	—		310.85
	3 m springboard	307.45	7 Q	330.45	5 Q	356.15
Francesca Dallapé	3 m springboard	312.50	6 Q	258.25	17	Did not advance
Noemi Batki	10 m platform	314.40	14 Q	331.60	10 Q	255.00	12
Tania Cagnotto Francesca Dallapé	3 m synchronised springboard	280.77	7 Q	—		302.43	5

Mixed

Athlete	Event	Final
		Points	Rank
Maicol Verzotto Tania Cagnotto	3 m synchronized springboard	315.30
Maicol Verzotto Noemi Batki	10 m synchronized platform	299.28	6
Michele Benedetti Noemi Batki	Team	377.05	8

High diving

Main article: High diving at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships

Italy has qualified one high diver at the World Championships.^[2][1]

Athlete	Event	Points	Rank
Alessandro de Rose	Men's high diving	358.95	16

Open water swimming

Main article: Open water swimming at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships

Italy has nominated eleven swimmers to compete in the open water marathon.^[1][3]

Men

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Matteo Furlan	5 km	55:20.0
	25 km	4:54:38.0
Simone Ruffini	10 km	1:50:09.1	7
	25 km	4:53:10.7
Mario Sanzullo	5 km	55:22.7	8
Federico Vanelli	10 km	1:50:23.1	10

Women

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Arianna Bridi	5 km	59:12.9	9
Rachele Bruni	10 km	1:58:27.9	4
Alice Franco	25 km	5:19:50.5	7
Martina Grimaldi	5 km	59:16.0	11
Aurora Ponselè	10 km	1:59:33.9	22
Ilaria Raimondi	25 km	5:21:05.2	10

Mixed

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Rachele Bruni Simone Ercoli Federico Vanelli	Team	55:49.4	4

Swimming

Main article: Swimming at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships

Italian swimmers have achieved qualifying standards in the following events (up to a maximum of 2 swimmers in each event at the A-standard entry time, and 1 at the B-standard):^[4] Swimmers must qualify at the 2015 Italian Spring Championships and Sette Colli Trophy (for pool events) to confirm their places for the Worlds.

Thirty-seven swimmers (19 men and 18 women) have been nominated to the Italian team at the Worlds, including 2008 Olympic champion and world record holder Federica Pellegrini and 2013 Worlds bronze medalist Gregorio Paltrinieri in the men's 1500 m freestyle.^[1][5]

Men

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Lorenzo Antonelli	100 m breaststroke	1:02.20	37	Did not advance
Christopher Ciccarese	100 m backstroke	54.81	=26	Did not advance
	200 m backstroke	1:58.79	18	Did not advance
Piero Codia	50 m butterfly	23.81	18	Did not advance
	100 m butterfly	51.94	12 Q	52.22	14	Did not advance
Andrea Mitchell D'Arrigo	400 m freestyle	3:51.31	27	—		Did not advance
Luca Dotto	50 m freestyle	22.48	=17	Did not advance
	100 m freestyle	49.01	17	Did not advance
Filippo Magnini	200 m freestyle	1:48.18	20	Did not advance
Luca Mencarini	200 m backstroke	1:58.31	15 Q	1:57.81	11	Did not advance
Marco Orsi	50 m freestyle	22.03	6 Q	21.86	3 Q	21.86	=5
	100 m freestyle	48.82	13 Q	48.69	15	Did not advance
Gregorio Paltrinieri	800 m freestyle	7:45.15	2 Q	—		7:40.81 EU
	1500 m freestyle	14:51.04	1 Q	—		14:39.67 EU
Francesco Pavone	200 m butterfly	1:57.69	18	Did not advance
Luca Pizzini	200 m breaststroke	2:11.00	15 Q	2:11.05	15	Did not advance
Matteo Rivolta	100 m butterfly	51.88	9 'Q	51.64	10	Did not advance
Simone Sabbioni	50 m backstroke	25.21	11 Q	25.05	12	Did not advance
	100 m backstroke	53.83	11 Q	53.60	10	Did not advance
Andrea Toniato	50 m breaststroke	27.47	=13 Q	27.61	15	Did not advance
Federico Turrini	200 m individual medley	2:00.94	19	Did not advance
	400 m individual medley	4:15.70	9	—		Did not advance
Luca Dotto Marco Orsi Michele Santucci Filippo Magnini	4×100 m freestyle relay	3:14.44	3 Q	—		3:12.53
Gianluca Maglia Marco Belotti Damiano Lestingi Filippo Magnini	4×200 m freestyle relay	7:13.77	13	—		Did not advance
Marco Orsi Matteo Rivolta Simone Sabbioni Andrea Toniato	4×100 m medley relay	3:34.59	9	—		Did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Ilaria Bianchi	100 m butterfly	58.37	14 Q	58.49	15	Did not advance
Martina Caramignoli	800 m freestyle	8:38.56	16	—		Did not advance
	1500 m freestyle	16:27.13	13	—		Did not advance
Diletta Carli	400 m freestyle	4:07.15	=6 Q	—		4:07.30	7
Martine Carraro	50 m breaststroke	30.83	10 Q	31.17	=13	Did not advance
Arianna Castiglioni	50 m breaststroke	30.90	=12 Q	31.17	=13	Did not advance
	100 m breaststroke	1:07.52	=14 Q	1:06.95	7 Q	1:07.60	8
Elena di Liddo	100 m butterfly	59.78	32	Did not advance
Silvia di Pietro	50 m freestyle	25.34	23	Did not advance
	50 m butterfly	26.32	11 Q	26.17	12	Did not advance
Erika Ferraioli	50 m freestyle	25.44	=24	Did not advance
	100 m freestyle	55.12	22	Did not advance
Elena Gemo	50 m backstroke	28.18	11 Q	28.21	11	Did not advance
	100 m backstroke	1:01.10	=23	Did not advance
	50 m butterfly	27.07	=7 Q	27.11	11	Did not advance
Alice Mizzau	200 m freestyle	1:59.68	22	Did not advance
	400 m freestyle	4:10.92	17	—		Did not advance
Erica Musso	800 m freestyle	8:38.56	16	—		Did not advance
Margherita Panziera	100 m backstroke	1:02.17	37	Did not advance
	200 m backstroke	2:10.39	12 Q	2:09.54	10	Did not advance
Federica Pellegrini	100 m freestyle	DNS		Did not advance
	200 m freestyle	1:57.34	6 Q	1:56.23	1 Q	1:55.32
Alessia Polieri	200 m butterfly	2:11.30	22	Did not advance
Aurora Ponselè	1500 m freestyle	16:12.01	8 Q	—		16:09.57	8
Ilaria Scarcella	100 m breaststroke	1:08.13	25	Did not advance
	200 m breaststroke	2:26.40	20	Did not advance
Erika Ferraioli Silvia di Pietro Laura Letrari Federica Pellegrini	4×100 m freestyle relay	3:37.88	7 Q	—		3:37.16	6
Alice Mizzau Erica Musso Chiara Masini Luccetti Federica Pellegrini	4×200 m freestyle relay	7:52.51	1 Q	—		7:48.41
Ilaria Bianchi Arianna Castiglioni Erika Ferraioli Elena Gemo	4×100 m medley relay	4:00.92	9	—		Did not advance

Mixed

Athlete	Event	Heat		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Marco Orsi Filippo Magnini Federica Pellegrini Erika Ferraioli Silvia di Pietro Luca Dotto*	4×100 m freestyle relay	3:26.23	3 Q	3:25.26	5
Simone Sabbioni Arianna Castiglioni Piero Codia Silvia di Pietro Matteo Rivolta* Erika Ferraioli*	4×100 m medley relay	3:46.03	5 Q	3:45.59	6

Synchronized swimming

Main article: Synchronized swimming at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships

Italy fielded a full team of fourteen synchronized swimmers (one man and thirteen women) to compete in each of the following events.^[1]

Women

Athlete	Event	Preliminaries		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Linda Cerruti	Solo technical routine	86.2072	7 Q	86.2559	7
	Solo free routine	88.5000	7 Q	89.2000	7
Linda Cerruti Costanza Ferro	Duet technical routine	87.6477	7 Q	87.5775	7
	Duet free routine	90.2000	6 Q	90.9667	6
Elisa Bozzo Beatrice Callegari Camilla Cattaneo Francesca Deidda Costanza Ferro Manila Flamini Mariangela Perrupato Alessia Pezone* Federica Sala* Sara Sgarzi	Team technical routine	88.0673	7 Q	88.0516	7
Elisa Bozzo Beatrice Callegari Camilla Cattaneo Francesca Deidda Manila Flamini Gemma Galli Viola Musso* Mariangela Perrupato Alessia Pezone* Sara Sgarzi	Team free routine	90.7667	6 Q	91.4667	6
Elisa Bozzo Beatrice Callegari Camilla Cattaneo Linda Cerruti Francesca Deidda Costanza Ferro Manila Flamini Viola Musso Mariangela Perrupato Alessia Pezone* Federica Sala* Sara Sgarzi	Free routine combination	88.9000	7 Q	89.7333	7

Mixed

Athlete	Event	Preliminaries		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Giorgio Minisini Manila Flamini	Duet technical routine	85.4125	3 Q	86.3640
Giorgio Minisini Mariangela Perrupato	Duet free routine	87.9667	4 Q	89.3333

Water polo

Main article: Water polo at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships

Men's tournament

Main article: Water polo at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships – Men's tournament

Team roster

• Stefano Tempesti
• Francesco Di Fulvio
• Alessandro Velotto
• Pietro Figlioli
• Alex Giorgetti
• Andrea Fondelli
• Massimo Giacoppo
• Nicholas Presciutti
• Niccolò Gitto
• Stefano Luongo
• Matteo Aicardi
• Fabio Baraldi
• Marco Del Lungo

Group play

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Greece	3	3	0	0	37	31	+6	6	Advanced to quarterfinals
2	United States	3	2	0	1	28	26	+2	4	Advanced to playoffs
3	Italy	3	1	0	2	28	28	0	2
4	Russia	3	0	0	3	23	31	−8	0

Source: SportResult.com^{[dead link]}
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head number of goals scored; 5) goal difference.

27 July 2015 12:10	Report[dead link]	Greece	11–10	Italy	Kazan Attendance: 883 Referees: Francesc Buch (ESP), György Kun (HUN)
		Score by quarters: 4–4, 2–1, 3–2, 2–3
		Afroudakis 3	Goals	four players 2

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29 July 2015 18:50	Report[dead link]	Russia	6–9	Italy	Kazan Attendance: 2,350 Referees: Adrian Alexandrescu (ROU), Radosław Koryzna (POL)
		Score by quarters: 1–1, 0–5, 3–1, 2–2
		Kholod 3	Goals	Giorgetti 2

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31 July 2015 21:30	Report[dead link]	United States	11–9	Italy	Kazan Attendance: 214 Referees: Boris Margeta (SLO), Nenad Peris (CRO)
		Score by quarters: 4–4, 3–2, 2–1, 2–2
		Vavić 3	Goals	Di Fulvio 4

Playoffs

2 August 2015 13:30	Report[dead link]	Canada	2–8	Italy	Kazan Attendance: 269 Referees: Mark Koganov (AZE), Francesc Buch (ESP)
		Score by quarters: 0–2, 1–1, 1–2, 0–3
		Kudaba, Torakis 1	Goals	Giorgetti, Gitto 2

Quarterfinals

4 August 2015 20:10	Report[dead link]	Hungary	7–8	Italy	Kazan Attendance: 693 Referees: Adrian Alexandrescu (ROU), Georgios Stavridis (GRE)
		Score by quarters: 2–2, 2–1, 1–2, 2–3
		Dán. Varga 3	Goals	Di Fulvio, Luongo 2

Semifinals

6 August 2015 22:00	Report[dead link]	Italy	6–10	Serbia	Kazan Attendance: 1,859 Referees: Boris Margeta (SLO), Radosław Koryzna (POL)
		Score by quarters: 0–4, 2–4, 2–1, 2–1
		Fondelli 2	Goals	S. Mitrovic 3

Third place game

8 August 2015 20:30	Report[dead link]	Greece	7–7	Italy	Kazan Attendance: 2,165 Referees: Adrian Alexandrescu (ROU), Radosław Koryzna (POL)
		Score by quarters: 1–0, 2–2, 4–4, 0–1  PSO: 4–2
		Vlahopoulos 3	Goals	Aicardi, Figlioli 2

Women's tournament

Main article: Water polo at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships – Women's tournament

Team roster

• Giulia Gorlero
• Chiara Tabani
• Arianna Garibotti
• Elisa Queirolo
• Federica Radicchi
• Rosaria Aiello
• Tania Di Mario
• Roberta Bianconi
• Giulia Emmolo
• Francesca Pomeri
• Laura Barzon
• Teresa Frassinetti
• Laura Teani

Group play

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Italy	3	3	0	0	40	18	+22	6	Advanced to quarterfinals
2	United States	3	2	0	1	39	14	+25	4	Advanced to playoffs
3	Brazil	3	1	0	2	19	36	−17	2
4	Japan	3	0	0	3	13	43	−30	0

Source: SportResult.com^{[dead link]}
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head number of goals scored; 5) goal difference.

26 July 2015 20:10	Report[dead link]	Japan	3–15	Italy	Kazan Attendance: 2,286 Referees: Francesc Buch (ESP), Mark Koganov (AZE)
		Score by quarters: 0–5, 1–3, 2–2, 0–5
		three players 1	Goals	Garibotti, Tabani 3

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28 July 2015 12:10	Report[dead link]	Italy	10–9	United States	Kazan Attendance: 529 Referees: Georgios Stavridis (GRE), Cory Williams (NZL)
		Score by quarters: 4–2, 2–1, 2–4, 2–2
		Bianconi 4	Goals	Fattal 5

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30 July 2015 09:30	Report[dead link]	Brazil	6–15	Italy	Kazan Attendance: 617 Referees: Cory Williams (NZL), Viktor Salnichenko (KAZ)
		Score by quarters: 0–3, 1–5, 3–3, 2–4
		Oliveira 4	Goals	Bianconi, Radicchi 3

Quarterfinals

3 August 2015 21:30	Report[dead link]	Italy	9–6	Greece	Kazan Referees: Mark Koganov (AZE), Radosław Koryzna (POL)
		Score by quarters: 1–0, 3–3, 3–2, 2–1
		Di Mario 4	Goals	Charalampidi 3

Semifinals

5 August 2015 22:00	Report[dead link]	Italy	5–5	Netherlands	Kazan Attendance: 717 Referees: Sergey Naumov (RUS), Nenad Peris (CRO)
		Score by quarters: 0–2, 1–3, 1–0, 3–0  PSO: 4–5
		Radicchi 2	Goals	Megens 4

Third place game

7 August 2015 20:30	Report[dead link]	Australia	7–7	Italy	Kazan Attendance: 1,508 Referees: Francesc Buch (ESP), Vojin Putniković (SRB)
		Score by quarters: 2–3, 1–2, 2–0, 2–2  PSO: 3–5
		Southern, Webster 2	Goals	Di Mario 3

References

1. Resta, Lucia (23 July 2015). "Mondiali di Nuoto Kazan 2015: calendario, diretta tv, azzurri in gara" [2015 World Championships in Kazan: calendar, direct TV satellite, and athletes list] (in Italian). Blogo.it. Archived from the original on 25 July 2015. Retrieved 25 July 2015.
2. "World Championships Kazan 2015 – High Diving Info" (PDF). FINA. 7 June 2013. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 July 2015. Retrieved 28 July 2013.
3. "Mondiali Kazan 2015: tutti i convocati dell'Italia" [Italy's full squad at the 2015 Worlds in Kazan] (in Italian). SportLive.it. 23 July 2015. Archived from the original on 25 July 2015. Retrieved 24 July 2015.
4. "Kazan 2015 (Swimming) – Qualifying Procedures". FINA. 6 November 2014. Archived from the original on 13 July 2015. Retrieved 8 July 2015.
5. Lepesant, Anne (19 April 2015). "2015 Italian Spring Nationals and WC Trials: 18 Qualified for Kazan at End of Day Five". SwimSwam. Retrieved 24 July 2015.

External links

• Federazione Italiana Nuoto (in Italian)