Lorenzo Galossi (born 25 May 2006) is an Italian competitive

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. He is the world junior record in the

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800-metre freestyle and the European junior record holder in the long course 400-metre freestyle. At the

2022 European Aquatics Championships The 2022 European Aquatics Championships took place in Rome, Italy, from 11 to 21 August 2022. The event exactly coincided with, but was not officially part of, the 2022 European Championships. This diverged from the joined format of the 2018 e ...

, he won the bronze medal in the 800-metre freestyle. At the 2022 European Junior Championships, he won medals in three individual events, the gold medal each in the 400-metre freestyle and the 800-metre freestyle and the silver medal in the 200-metre freestyle.

Background

Galossi was born 25 May 2006 in the

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area of

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and competes for Circolo Canottieri Aniene, CC Aniene, in national and regional competitions."Lorenzo Galossi"
(in Italian). ''

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''. Retrieved 19 July 2022. The end of 2022 to beginning of 2023, he transitioned coaching and training methodologies, one change of which included swimming in the evening instead of the early afternoon.Nettis, Patrizia (31 January 2023)
"Nuoto, Lorenzo Galossi: "Ho preso un virus e la mononucleosi insieme. Non so se farò Assoluti e Mondiali""
(in Italian). ''OA Sport''. Retrieved 18 February 2023.

Career

2021–2022

At the

2021 European Junior Swimming Championships The 2021 European Junior Swimming Championships were held from 6 to 11 July 2021 in Rome, Italy at the Stadio Olimpico del Nuoto. The Championships were organized by LEN, the European Swimming League, and were held in a 50-meter pool. The Champions ...

, held in

in July, Galossi won a bronze medal as part of the 4×200-metre freestyle relay, splitting a 1:50.32 for the first leg of the relay, placed fifth in the 800-metre freestyle, 11th in the 400-metre freestyle, and 12th in the 200-metre freestyle.

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(12 July 2021)
"LEN European Junior Swimming Championships Rome - Italy: Complete Results Book"
''Microplus Informatica''. Retrieved 19 July 2022. The following year, as a 15-year-old at the 2022 Italian National Spring Championships in

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, he won the silver medal in the 400-metre freestyle with a European junior record time of 3:45.93, qualified for the

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in the event, and placed fourth in the 800-metre freestyle with a personal best time of 7:49.76.Tiseo, Giandomenico (9 April 2022)
"Nuoto, Lorenzo Galossi fa sognare. 3'45" a 15 anni nei 400 sl, protagonista già a livello mondiale?"
(in Italian). ''OA Sport''. Retrieved 19 July 2022.OA Sport (9 April 2022)
"Nuoto, Campionati Italiani 2022: Marco De Tullio E Lorenzo Galossi Stellari Nei 400 SL, Benedetta Pilato Imprendibile"
(in Italian). ''

Eurosport Eurosport is a group of pay television networks in Europe and parts of Asia. Owned by Warner Bros. Discovery through Warner Bros. Discovery Sports#Warner Bros. Discovery Sports Europe properties, its international sports unit, it operates two ...

''. Retrieved 19 July 2022.Mei, Piero (10 April 2022)
"Quadarella e Pilato, tricolore e pass mondiale. Che bravo Galossi"
(in Italian). ''

Il Gazzettino ''Il Gazzettino'' is an Italian daily local newspaper, based in Mestre, Italy. It is the main newspaper in the Northeast Italy and is one of the oldest newspapers in Italy. Profile ''Il Gazzettino'' has the following eight local editions: #Veni ...

''. Retrieved 19 July 2022.

(13 April 2022)
"2022 Campionato Italiano Primaverile UnipolSai - V. 50m Risultati"
(in Italian). ''microplustiming.com''. Retrieved 19 July 2022.

2022 World Aquatics Championships

For swimming competition at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships, held in June at

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, Galossi entered to compete in the 400-metre freestyle."Mondiali di nuoto, ad Alberto Razzetti il compito di tenere alto il nome della Liguria"
(in Italian). ''Genova Today''. 17 June 2022. Retrieved 19 July 2022.Giusy Anna Maria D'alessio (18 June 2022)
"Mondiali di nuoto 2022: il calendario, gli italiani in gara e dove vederli in tv"
(in Italian). ''

Quotidiano.net ''Quotidiano.net'' is an Italian news website launched in 2000 and owned by the publishing house Poligrafici Editoriale, whose print publications include the newspapers '' Il Giorno'', ''il Resto del Carlino'', and ''La Nazione''. The website con ...

''. Retrieved 19 July 2022. He placed twelfth in the preliminaries of the event, not qualifying for the final with his time of 3:47.19, which was 0.72 seconds behind fellow Italian

Marco De Tullio Marco De Tullio (born 21 September 2000) is an Italian swimmer. He represented Italy at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships held in Gwangju, South Korea. He competed in the men's 400 metre freestyle event. In 2018, he represented Italy at t ...

who advanced to the final ranking eighth.

FINA FINA (french: Fédération internationale de natation, en, International Swimming Federation, link=yes) (to be renamed as World Aquatics by ) is the international federation recognised by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for administer ...

(18 June 2022)
"19th FINA World Championships Budapest (HUN): Men's 400m Freestyle Heats Results Summary"
''

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''. Retrieved 19 July 2022.Adami, Davide (18 June 2022)
"Nuoto, Lorenzo Galossi: "Sono amareggiato"; Marco De Tullio: "In finale può cambiare tutto""
(in Italian). ''OA Sport''. Retrieved 19 July 2022.
(in Italian). ''

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''. 18 June 2022. Retrieved 19 July 2022."Mondiali: De Tullio in finale, record italiano nei 50 farfalla per Ceccon"
(in Italian). ''

Corriere dello Sport – Stadio ''Corriere dello Sport'' is an Italian national sports newspaper based in Rome, Italy. It is one of three major Italian sports daily newspapers and has the largest readership in central and southern Italy, the fourth most read throughout the co ...

''. 18 June 2022. Retrieved 19 July 2022.

2022 European Junior Championships

Less than three weeks later, on 5 July, Galossi won a bronze medal in the 4×100-metre freestyle relay on the first day of the

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, held in

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, splitting a 50.08 for the lead-off leg of the relay in the final to help achieve a time of 3:19.42."Eurojrs a Otopeni. Doppietta d'argento e secondo bronzo. Cresce l'Italia"
(in Italian). ''

''. 7 July 2022. Retrieved 19 July 2022. The following day, he won a silver medal in the 200-metre freestyle with a personal best time of 1:47.71 seconds to narrowly finish less than two-tenths of a second ahead of bronze medalist

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.Tiseo, Giandomenico (6 July 2022)
"Nuovo, Europei giovanili 2022: Giulia Vetrano e Lorenzo Galossi, coppia d'argento nei 200 stile libero"
(in Italian). ''OA Sport''. Retrieved 19 July 2022."Super silver and brilliant bronze as Marshall and Whittle secure more medals"
''

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''. 6 July 2022. Retrieved 19 July 2022. Three days later, he started the finals session winning a gold medal in the 800-metre freestyle with a time of 7:52.04.Adami, Davide (9 July 2022)
"LIVE Nuoto, Europei juniores 2022 in DIRETTA: oro dell'Italia nella staffetta 4×200 sl uomini! Galossi vince negli 800 sl!"
(in Italian). ''OA Sport''. Retrieved 19 July 2022.
(in Italian). ''

''. 9 July 2022. Retrieved 19 July 2022. A little under 30 minutes after this first gold medal of the session, he followed his performance up with a second gold medal, this time helping achieve the first-place finish in the 4×200-metre freestyle relay in a time of 7:17.45 swimming the fourth-leg of the relay."Ragaini medaglia d'oro agli Europei juniores"
(in Italian). ''

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''. 12 July 2022. Retrieved 19 July 2022. On 10 July, the final day of competition, he won the gold medal in the 400-metre freestyle with a time of 3:48.14, finishing over two seconds ahead of the two swimmers who tied for the silver medal

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of Romania and

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.Arcobelli, Stefano (10 July 2022)
"Paltrinieri fa vincere la staffetta. Galossi e la piccola Italia d'oro"
(in Italian). ''

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''. Retrieved 19 July 2022."Vlad Stancu câștigă a patra medalie la Campionatele europee de natație pentru juniori, după a cursă fantastică la 400 m liber"
(in Romanian). ''

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''. 10 July 2022. Retrieved 19 July 2022. Ten days later, at the 2022 Italian National Summer Championships in

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during the

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with temperatures around 40 °C (104 °F), Galossi lowered his personal best time in the 800-metre freestyle to a 7:46.28, which marked a drop of over three seconds.Canfora, Mario (20 July 2022)
"Assoluti a sorpresa, brilla Galossi negli 800: "Campione a 16 anni, che emozione""
(in Italian). ''

''. Retrieved 20 July 2022. On 21 July, as part of the same Championships, he lowered his personal best time in the 200-metre freestyle to a 1:47.42."Campionato Italiano Assoluto Herbalife - V. 50m: Resultati 200 m Stile Libero - Uomini"
(in Italian). ''

''. 21 July 2022. Retrieved 21 July 2022.

2022 European Aquatics Championships

Galossi was the youngest swimmer named to the Italy team roster for the

, held in August in Rome, at 16 years of age."Italy announce strong swimming team for Roma 2022"
''roma2022.eu''. 26 July 2022. Retrieved 8 August 2022. On day one, he swam a 1:47.00 for the anchor leg of the 4×200-metre freestyle relay in the preliminaries, contributing to a time of 7:09.03 and first-rank final qualification.

(11 August 2022)
"European Aquatics Championships Roma 2022: Results 4x200m Freestyle Men Preliminary"
''Microplus''. Retrieved 11 August 2022. In the final, he split a 1:47.91 for the second leg of the relay to help win the silver medal in a time of 7:06.25.

(11 August 2022)
"European Aquatics Championships Roma 2022: Results 4x200m Freestyle Men Final"
''Microplus''. Retrieved 11 August 2022.
(in Spanish). '' ANSA Latina''. 11 August 2022. Retrieved 11 August 2022."Europei, impresa della 4x200 stile: è finalmente medaglia d'argento"
(in Italian). ''

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''. 11 August 2022. Retrieved 11 August 2022. The following day, he ranked fourth in the preliminaries of the 800-metre freestyle with a time of 7:49.08, qualifying for the final less than two-tenths of a second behind third-ranked fellow Italian

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(12 August 2022)
"European Aquatics Championships Roma 2022: Results 800m Freestyle Men Preliminary"
''Microplus''. Retrieved 12 August 2022.OA Sport (12 August 2022)
"Europei nuoto Roma 2022 - Risultati batterie day 2: l'Italia incanta nei 100 rana, bene Miressi e Paltrinieri"
(in Italian). ''

''. Retrieved 12 August 2022."Nuoto, agli Europei ok esordio Paltrinieri, domani finale 800 sl"
(in Italian). ''

''. 12 August 2022. Retrieved 12 August 2022. He won the bronze medal in the final with a personal best, world junior record, and European junior record time of 7:43.37 at of age.

(13 August 2022)
"European Aquatics Championships Roma 2022: Results 800m Freestyle Men Final"
''Microplus''. Retrieved 13 August 2022."Europei di nuoto Roma, risultati in diretta: sincro, Minisini e Ruggiero oro nel duo misto libero. Bronzo a Cerruti e Ferro"
(in Italian). ''

la Repubblica ''la Repubblica'' (; the Republic) is an Italian daily general-interest newspaper. It was founded in 1976 in Rome by Gruppo Editoriale L'Espresso (now known as GEDI Gruppo Editoriale) and led by Eugenio Scalfari, Carlo Caracciolo and Arnoldo ...

''. 13 August 2022. Retrieved 13 August 2022.Pérez, Marta (13 August 2022)
"Paltrinieri, Sjöström y Pilato no dan opción a las sorpresas"
(in Spanish). ''

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''. Retrieved 13 August 2022.Chiusano, Mattia (13 August 2022)
"Paltrinieri domina gli 800 agli Europei e trova il suo erede, Lorenzo Galossi"
(in Italian). ''

''. Retrieved 13 August 2022.Ravelli, Arianna (13 August 2022)
"Europei di nuoto, le medaglie del 13 agosto: Paltrinieri, Galossi, Pilato e Angiolini"
(in Italian). ''

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''. Retrieved 13 August 2022.Tiseo, Giandomenico (13 August 2022)
"Nuoto, chi è Lorenzo Galossi: 16 anni di puro talento, ha sempre bruciato le tappe. E nei 400 sl"
(in Italian). ''OA Sport''. 13 August 2022. Retrieved 13 August 2022. His new world junior record, broke the former mark set by

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at 7:45.67 in 2013 by over two full seconds."Europei di Roma. Pilato e SuperGreg oro, Angiolini argento, Miressi e Galossi bronzo"
(in Italian). ''

''. 13 August 2022. Retrieved 14 August 2022. Day seven of seven, he ranked fifth in the preliminaries of the 400 metre freestyle with a 3:48.15, just 0.17 seconds ahead of fellow Italian

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, who ranked sixth, and as Galossi and Detti were the two fastest Italians they both qualified for the evening final."Campeonatos Europeos: 400m estilo libre - masculino - series: Resultados"
(in Spanish). ''

''. 17 August 2022. Retrieved 17 August 2022. With a time of 3:46.94 in the final, he placed fifth, finishing 2.41 seconds behind bronze medalist

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(17 August 2022)
"European Aquatics Championships Roma 2022: Results 400m Freestyle Men Final"
''Microplus''. Retrieved 17 August 2022.Passanti, Alessandro (17 August 2022)
"Nuoto, Lorenzo Galossi: "Non avevo davvero più energie. Anno con soddisfazioni, ma anche delusioni""
(in Italian). ''OA Sport''. Retrieved 17 August 2022.

2023

For the January to April 2023 time frame, Galossi focused on recovery from illness (

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) and transitioning coaches and training methodologies with uncertainty expressed as to whether he would be well enough to compete at the 2023 Assoluti Championships and

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International championships (50 m)

Personal best times

Long course metres (50 m pool)

Legend: WJ – World junior record; EJ – European junior record; r – relay 1st leg

Records

European junior records

Long course metres (50 m pool)

Legend: WJ – World junior record

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Galossi, Lorenzo 2006 births Living people Italian male swimmers Italian male freestyle swimmers Swimmers from Rome European Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming 21st-century Italian people