Alessandro Terrin

Alessandro Terrin

Personal information
Full name	Alessandro Terrin
Nationality	Italy
Born	(1985-07-11) 11 July 1985 Dolo, Italy
Height	193 cm (6 ft 4 in)
Weight	93 kg (205 lb; 14.6 st)
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Strokes	Breaststroke
Club	Aurelia Nuoto
Medal record World Championships (SC) 2006 Shanghai 50 m breaststroke European Championships (LC) 2006 Budapest 50 m breaststroke 2008 Eindhoven 50 m breaststroke European Championships (SC) 2008 Rijeka 4×50 m medley 2005 Trieste 50 m breaststroke 2006 Helsinki 50 m breaststroke 2009 Istanbul 50 m breaststroke 2006 Helsinki 4×50 m medley 2007 Debrecen 50 m breaststroke

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.

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 Budapest together with Oleg Lisogor; he also won a silver medal at the 2006 SC World Championships in Shanghai.

At the 2008 European SC Championships in Rijeka 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:

Event	Long course (year)	Short course (year)
50 m breaststroke	27.25 (2009)	26.55 (2008)
100 m breaststroke	1:01.35 (2005)	58.79 (2006)
4×50 m medley relay		1:32:91 (2008) WB ER
4 × 100 m medley relay	3:34.32 (2008) IR