Alessandro Terrin (born 11 July 1985) is a male Italian swimmer. He represented Italy at the 2008 Olympic Games in the 100m breaststroke and the 4×100m; medley relay swimming events.Alessandro Terrin at Sports Reference
at Sports Reference His favourite event is the 50m breaststroke: he won several medals in this event and became European champion at the 2006 European LC Championships in

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he won a gold medal in the 4×50 m medley relay event, where the Italian team set the current European record and world's best performance.

Personal bests

He currently holds 1 world's best performance (WB), 1 European record (ER) and 1 Italian records (IR). His personal bests (as of the 27 May 2009) are:

References

1985 births Living people Italian male breaststroke swimmers Olympic swimmers of Italy Swimmers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Medalists at the FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) European Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming Mediterranean Games gold medalists for Italy Mediterranean Games bronze medalists for Italy Mediterranean Games medalists in swimming Swimmers at the 2005 Mediterranean Games Sportspeople from the Metropolitan City of Venice People from Dolo 20th-century Italian people 21st-century Italian people {{Italy-swimming-bio-stub