Emanuele Nicolini (born April 20, 1984) is a Sammarinese swimmer, who specialized in freestyle events. He holds numerous national records in the 200 and 400 m freestyle, and had represented his nation

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in two editions of the Olympic Games (2004 and 2008). Nicolini made his first Sammarinese team at the

2004 Summer Olympics The 2004 Summer Olympics ( el, Θερινοί Ολυμπιακοί Αγώνες 2004, ), officially the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad ( el, Αγώνες της 28ης Ολυμπιάδας, ) and also known as Athens 2004 ( el, Αθήνα 2004), ...

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, where he competed in the men's 400 m freestyle. Swimming in heat one, he came home strongly at the final stretch to post a third-place time and forty-second overall in 4:08.28, just seven seconds behind the winner Miguel Mendoza of the Philippines. At the

2008 Summer Olympics The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and also known as Beijing 2008 (), were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China. A total of 10,942 athletes from 204 Na ...

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, Nicolini swam the first heat of the 200 m freestyle, against Georgia's

Irakli Revishvili Irakli Revishvili ( ka, ირაკლი რევიშვილი; born November 3, 1989) is a Georgian swimmer, who specialized in freestyle events. He represented his nation Georgia at the 2008 Summer Olympics, and has currently owned two ...

and Macedonia's

Mihajlo Ristovski Mihajlo Ristovski ( mk, Михајло Ристовски; born March 3, 1983) is a former Macedonian swimmer, who specialized in freestyle events. He represented the Republic of Macedonia at the 2008 Summer Olympics, placing among the top 60 sw ...

. He closed out a small field to last place with the slowest prelims time of 1:59.47, finishing two seconds behind the winner Ristovski. Nicolini, however, failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed fifty-seventh in the overall rankings.

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External links

NBC Olympics Profile
1984 births Living people Sammarinese male freestyle swimmers Olympic swimmers for San Marino Swimmers at the 2004 Summer Olympics Swimmers at the 2008 Summer Olympics {{SanMarino-swimming-bio-stub