Alessia Filippi (born 23 June 1987 in
Rome
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)
is a retired
Italian
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swimmer
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.
Filippi won the gold medal in the 1500 m at the 2009 World Championships in Rome.
Biography
Filippi excels in
backstroke
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and individual medley races, as well as in middle-distance freestyle (400 to 1500 m).
She won 400 m individual medley at the
2006 European Swimming Championships in
Budapest
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. She also won a bronze medal in the same championship, and a silver medal in the 2006 short-course World Championships. In December 2006 she confirmed her title at the 2006 short-course European Championships in
Helsinki
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. In July 2008 she broke the European record in the 1500 m freestyle (
long course
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). After winning two gold medals in the
2008 European Aquatics Championships
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in
Eindhoven
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The European Short Course Swimming Championships 2008 took place in Rijeka, Croatia from Thursday 11 to Sunday 14 December 2008.
Medal table
Medal summary
Legend:
* WR = World record
* ER = European record
* CR = Championships record
Men's e ...]
held in
Rijeka
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, she set the new world record in the 800 m freestyle (short course), with the time of 8:04.53.
Retirement
On 12 October 2012, at the age of 25 years, she announced her
retirement
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from competitions.
Personal bests
She currently holds 1
World record
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(marked as WR), 3
European records
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(ER) and 12
Italian records (IR). Her personal bests (as of the 25 April 2009) are:
See also
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Italian swimmers multiple medalists at the international competitions
*
World record progression 800 metres freestyle
The first world record in the women's 800 metres freestyle in long course (50 metres) swimming was recognised by the International Swimming Federation (FINA) in 1931. The women's 880 yard freestyle had been a FINA-recognised world record ev ...
References
External links
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1987 births
Living people
Swimmers from Rome
Italian female medley swimmers
Italian female freestyle swimmers
Swimmers at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Swimmers at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Swimmers at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Olympic swimmers of Italy
Olympic silver medalists for Italy
World record setters in swimming
Italian female backstroke swimmers
World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming
Medalists at the FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
European Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming
Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Olympic silver medalists in swimming
Mediterranean Games gold medalists for Italy
Swimmers at the 2005 Mediterranean Games
Swimmers at the 2009 Mediterranean Games
Mediterranean Games medalists in swimming
20th-century Italian women
21st-century Italian women