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Lorenzo Mora Breaks His 2nd Italian Record in 2 Days at Nico Sapio

Braden Keith
by Braden Keith 0

November 05th, 2022 News

48TH NICO SAPIO TROPHY

Lorenzo Mora broke his 2nd Italian Record in as many days on Saturday at the 48th annual Nico Sapio Trophy.

The 24-year old swam a 49.37 in Saturday’s evening session. That swim broke the Italian Record of 49.62 that was set two weeks ago at the Berlin stop of the World Cup tour. His previous personal best was a 49.93 done at the 2021 World Short Course Championships.

Splits Comparison:

Lorenzo Mora Thomas Ceccon Lorenzo Mora
New Italian Record Former Italian Record Previous PB
50m 23.72 24.03 24.48
100m 25.65 25.51 25.45
Final Time 49.37 49.54 49.93

Mora now ranks 2nd in the world this year behind American Shaine Casas.

2022-2023 SCM Men 100 Back

RyanUSA
Murphy
12/14
48.50
2Kliment
Kolesnikov
RUS48.8211/21
3Shaine
Casas
USA48.8410/30
4Lorenzo
Mora
ITA49.0412/14
5Kacper
Stokowski
POL49.3311/05
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Ceccon is the new long course World Record holder in this event, breaking that record at June’s World Championship meet.

Mora broke the 200 backstroke record on Friday with a negative-split 1:48.72.

He was one of several record-setting swimmers at the meet, although the rest were meet records.

Among those was Simone Cerasuolo with a 25.78 in the 50 breaststroke. While not a national record, Cerasuolo’s swim did break the Meet Record in the event. It also ties him for 1st in the world with American Nic Fink.

2022-2023 SCM Men 50 Breast

NicUSA
Fink
12/18
25.38
2Nicolo
Martinenghi
ITA25.4212/18
3Ilya
Shymanovich
BLR25.5511/24
4Simone
Cerasuolo
ITA25.6612/17
5Zibei
Yan
CHN25.8012/17
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“I’m happy,” Cerasuolo said after the race. “It’s a good starting point. Last season I grew a lot and I started this well too. I’m very strict with myself because I always try to push myself further.”

Like Mora above, Cerasuolo took advantage of the absence of a more accomplished countrymate to further his own star at this meet – Nicolo Martinenghi, Olympic bronze medalist, is Italy’s primary breaststroker.

Matteo Campi also set a new Meet Record with a 3:37.86 in the 400 free, a day after doing the same in the 200. That time ranks him 4th in the world this year (and was over two seconds better than what won the French championships nearby, for example).

The women’s side didn’t see any records, but good performances none-the-less. Silvia Scalia won the 50 backstroke in 26.55, better than she was in the World Cup in Berlin, and Costanza Cocconcelli wasn’t far behind in 26.77.

Cocconcelli won the 50 free on the day in 24.47 after a big personal best in the 100 free on Friday.

In the women’s 100 breaststroke, Lisa Angiolini got a confidence-boosting win over Martina Carraro with a 1:05.23. Carraro was 2nd in 1:05.66. That’s a new best time by three-tenths for Angiolini who, like Carraro did a few years back, is trying to get a second-wind to her career with a breakthrough in her late 20s (Angiolini is 27).

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Braden Keith is the Editor-in-Chief and a co-founder/co-owner of SwimSwam.com. He first got his feet wet by building The Swimmers' Circle beginning in January 2010, and now comes to SwimSwam to use that experience and help build a new leader in the sport of swimming. Aside from his life on the InterWet, …

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