Alessandro Miressi
Alessandro Miressi (born 2 October 1998) is an Italian swimmer. He is a world record holder in the short course 4×100 metre freestyle relay and an Italian record holder in the long course and short course 100 metre freestyle. In the long course 100 metre freestyle, he was 2018 European champion, 2020 European Championships silver medalist, and 2022 European Championships bronze medalist. In the short course 100 metre freestyle, he was 2021 World champion, 2019 and 2021 European Championships silver medalist, and 2022 World Championships bronze medalist.
Career
[edit]In 2018, Miressi competed in the men's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay event at the European Championships, winning the silver medal.[4] He then won a gold in the 100 metre freestyle,[5] followed by a bronze in the mixed 4 × 100 metre medley relay. He is the holder of the Italian record in the 100 m freestyle, with 47.45 (2021).[6][7] He competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics, in Men's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay, winning a silver medal, the Men's 4 × 100 metre medley relay, winning a bronze medal, and the 100 metre freestyle, where he placed sixth.[8]
2021 World Short Course Championships
[edit]Day one of the 2021 World Short Course Championships, contested in December in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Miressi led-off the 4×100 metre freestyle relay with a 46.12 in the final, contributing to a new Italian record time of 3:03.61 and a silver medal-win.[9] The second day, he helped achieve a fifth-place finish in the 4×50 metre mixed freestyle relay, splitting a 21.18 for the second leg of the relay to contribute to the final time of 1:30.02.[10] Anchoring the 4×50 metre freestyle relay in the final to a finish in 1:23.61 with a split time of 20.61, he helped finish 0.14 seconds ahead of the second-fastest relay team and win the gold medal in the event on day four.[11][12] On the sixth and final evening, he won his first gold medal of the session in the 100 metre freestyle, winning the event with an Italian record time of 45.57, which broke the Italian record of 45.58 seconds he set in the semifinals of the event the day before.[13][14] He won his second and final gold medal of the session in the 4×100 metre medley relay, anchoring the finals relay to a Championships record and Italian record time of 3:19.76 in 45.05 seconds.[15]
2022 World Championships
[edit]At the 2022 World Aquatics Championships, with swimming competition held in June at Danube Arena in Budapest, Hungary, Miressi won a bronze medal as part of the 4×100 metre freestyle relay in a time of 3:10.95.[16][17] Swimming a time of 47.48 seconds for the freestyle leg of the 4×100 metre medley relay in the final, he helped tie the European record and set a new Italian record with a finals relay time of 3:27.51 to win the gold medal.[18][19]
2022 European Championships
[edit]On the second day of the 2022 European Aquatics Championships, held in Rome in August, Miressi ranked second in the preliminaries of the 100 metre freestyle, advancing to the semifinals with a time of 47.60 seconds.[20][21][22] For the semifinals, he swam a 47.96 and qualified for the final ranking third behind David Popovici of Romania and Kristóf Milák of Hungary.[23][24] Finishing third in the final behind the same duo as in the semifinals, Miressi won the bronze medal with a time of 47.63 seconds.[25][26][27] The following day, day four, he led-off the 4×100 metre freestyle relay in the final with a 47.76, contributing to a gold medal-winning time of 3:10.50.[28][29][30][31][32] Day five, he split a 47.38 for the second leg of the 4×100 metre mixed freestyle relay in the final to help place fourth with a time of 3:23.62, which was 0.22 seconds behind the bronze medal-winning team from Sweden.[33]
In the preliminaries of the 50 metre freestyle on day six, Miressi was the third-fastest Italian with a time of 22.26 seconds, ranked eighteenth, and did not advance to the semifinals.[34][35] The following day, he swam the 100 metre freestyle portion of the 4×100 metre medley relay in 47.17 seconds in the final, helping win the gold medal with a new Championships record time of 3:28.46.[36][37][38]
2022 Swimming World Cup
[edit]At the stop of the 2022 FINA Swimming World Cup circuit held in Berlin, Germany, Miressi competed in the 50 metre freestyle, placing twenty-fourth with a time of 21.94 seconds, and the 100 metre freestyle, where he placed fifth in the final with a time of 47.00 seconds, which was 1.12 seconds slower than gold medalist Kyle Chalmers of Australia.[39]
2022 World Short Course Championships
[edit]Day one in Melbourne, Australia for the 2022 World Short Course Championships in December, Miressi led-off the 4×100 metre freestyle relay in the preliminaries with a time of 46.08 seconds to contribute to a first-ranked time of 3:04.46 heading into the final.[40] Later in the day, he helped set a new word record in the event with a 3:02.75 to win the gold medal, contributing a lead-off time of 46.15 seconds to the final mark.[41][42][43][44] In the morning of day three, he swam the first 50 metre portion of the 4×50 metre freestyle relay in 21.26 seconds, helping achieve a third-rank time of 1:24.13 and qualify for the final.[45] For the final of the 100 metre freestyle in the evening session, he won the bronze medal with a personal best time of 45.57 seconds that tied his Italian record in the event.[46][47][48] Later in the session, he swam the lead-off leg of the 4×50 metre freestyle relay in 21.22 to contribute to the silver medal-winning time of 1:23.48.[47][49][50]
For the preliminaries of the 50 metre freestyle on the fourth morning, Miressi achieved a personal best time of 21.17 seconds, qualifying for the semifinals tied in rank for twelfth overall.[51] In the evening semifinals, he lowered his personal best time to a 21.13, ranked thirteenth, and did not qualify for the final.[52][53] The following day, in the morning preliminaries, he contributed 20.84 seconds to the time of 1:32.31 for the 4×50 metre medley relay on the freestyle leg of the relay, helping advance the relay to the final ranked first.[54] In the evening, he was substituted out and Leonardo Deplano substituted in on the finals relay, and when the finals relay placed first in a time of 1:29.72 he and the other prelims and finals relay members won the gold medal for their efforts.[55] On the final day, he anchored the 4×100 metre medley relay in the final with a time of 45.56 seconds to help set a new European record with a time of 3:19.06.[56][57]
2023
[edit]At the 2023 Italian National Spring Championships in April in Riccione, Miressi won the silver medal in the 50 metre freestyle on day one with a time of 22.12 seconds.[58][59] In the final of the 100 metre freestyle on the third evening, he won the gold medal with a time of 48.61 seconds.[60] Later in the evening, he won a gold medal in the 4×100 metre medley relay, splitting a 48.37 for the freestyle leg to help win in a final time of 3:34.68 with GS Fiamme Oro relay teammate Simone Stefani (backstroke), Simone Cerasuolo (breaststroke), and Thomas Ceccon (butterfly).[61] On the fifth and final day, his lead-off leg of the 4×100 metre freestyle relay, a time of 48.37 seconds, contributed to a gold medal-win in an Italian club record time of 3:14.60 with GS Fiamme Oro relay teammates Manuel Frigo, Marco Orsi, and Thomas Ceccon.[62]
International championships (50 m)
[edit]Meet | 50 freestyle | 100 freestyle | 200 freestyle | 4×100 freestyle | 4×200 freestyle | 4×100 medley | 4×100 mixed freestyle | 4×100 mixed medley |
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Junior level | ||||||||
EG 2015 | 41st | 5th | 4th | 4th | 4th | |||
WJC 2015 | 5th | 20th | 10th | 6th | ||||
EJC 2016 | 15th | 44th | 6th | |||||
Senior level | ||||||||
WC 2017 | DSQ | 11th | 5th | |||||
WUG 2017 | 11th | 4th | ||||||
MG 2018 | 7th | 7th | ||||||
EC 2018 | 12th | 4th | ||||||
WC 2019 | 9th | 4th | 8th | |||||
EC 2020 | 8th | |||||||
OG 2020 | 6th | — | ||||||
WC 2022 | 8th | 7th | ||||||
EC 2022 | 18th | 4th | ||||||
WC 2023 | 13th | 5th | ||||||
WC 2024 | 5th |
International championships (25 m)
[edit]Meet | 50 freestyle | 100 freestyle | 200 freestyle | 4×50 freestyle | 4×100 freestyle | 4×50 medley | 4×100 medley | 4×50 mixed freestyle |
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EC 2017 | 10th (h) | 9th | — | 5th[a] | — | |||
WC 2018 | 10th | 4th | 9th | |||||
EC 2019 | 6th | — | 4th | — | 5th | |||
EC 2021 | 14th (h) | — | — | |||||
WC 2021 | 5th | |||||||
WC 2022 | 13th | [a] | ||||||
EC 2023 | 4th | — | — |
- a Miressi swam only in the preliminaries.
Personal best times
[edit]Long course metres (50 m pool)
[edit]Event | Time | Meet | Location | Date | Notes | Ref | |
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50 m freestyle | 21.86 | sf | 2020 European Aquatics Championships | Budapest, Hungary | 22 May 2021 | [7] | |
100 m freestyle | 47.45 | 2020 European Aquatics Championships | Budapest, Hungary | 19 May 2021 | NR | [7] |
Records not set in finals: h – heat;
Short course metres (25 m pool)
[edit]Event | Time | Meet | Location | Date | Notes | Ref | |
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50 m freestyle | 20.87 | sf | European Short Course Championships 2023 | Otopeni, Romania | 9 December 2023 | [52] | |
100 m freestyle | 45.51 | European Short Course Championships 2023 | Otopeni, Romania | 10 December 2023 | NR | [7] |
Records not set in finals: h – heat;
World records
[edit]Short course metres (25 m pool)
[edit]No. | Event | Time | Meet | Location | Date | Status | Ref |
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1 | 4×100 m freestyle | 3:02.75 | 2022 World Short Course Championships | Melbourne, Australia | 13 December 2022 | Current | [41][42][43][44] |
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External links
[edit]- Alessandro Miressi at World Aquatics
- Alessandro Miressi at SwimRankings.net
- Alessandro Miressi at the International Swimming League
- Alessandro Miressi at Olympics.com
- Alessandro Miressi at Olympedia
- Alessandro Miressi at the Italian National Olympic Committee (in Italian)
- 1998 births
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- Italian male freestyle swimmers
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- European Games medalists in swimming
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- Medalists at the 2017 Summer Universiade
- Mediterranean Games silver medalists for Italy
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- Swimmers at the 2018 Mediterranean Games
- FISU World University Games silver medalists for Italy
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