Andrea Mitchell "Mitch" D'Arrigo (born 28 April 1995),
is a freestyle
swimmer
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who has competed internationally for Italy and for the United States. He specializes in the men's 400 metre
freestyle event, where he won two silver medals and one bronze medal representing Italy at the European Championships. He also earned silver and bronze medals for Italy in the men's 4×200 metre freestyle relay events at the World and European Championships.
D'Arrigo competed for Italy at the
2016 Summer Olympics in the
men's 200 metre freestyle and
men's 4×200 metre freestyle relay.
He also competed for the United States at the
2017 World University Games
The 2017 Summer Universiade (), officially known as the XXIX Summer Universiade ( zh, t=第二十九屆夏季世界大學運動會, p=Dì èrshíjiǔ jiè xiàjì shìjiè dàxué yùndònghuì) and commonly called Taipei 2017 ( zh, t=台北 ...
, winning a silver medal in the men's 4×200 m freestyle relay.
D'Arrigo was born in
Rome
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, Italy, and moved to
Gainesville, Florida
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,
where he attended
P. K. Yonge Developmental Research School as a high school senior.
He joined the
University of Florida
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team in 2013.
D'Arrigo has dual citizenship; his father is Italian and his mother is American.
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1995 births
Living people
American male freestyle swimmers
Italian male freestyle swimmers
American people of Italian descent
Italian people of American descent
Olympic swimmers for Italy
Swimmers at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Universiade silver medalists for the United States
Universiade medalists in swimming
Medalists at the 2017 Summer Universiade
Florida Gators men's swimmers