World Swimming Championships, gold medal for Paltrinieri and for the 4x100m freestyle
Greg dominates in front of Joly and Christiansen. The blue quartet Miressi-Bonin-Deplano-Ceccon wins and sets the world recordGregorio Paltrinieri never ceases to amaze, and also wins the gold medal in the 1500m freestyle race of the World Championships in short course in Melbourne, swimming in 14:16.88. Silver to the French Damien Joly (14:19.62), bronze to the Norwegian Henrik Christiansen (14:24.08).
Italy also shines in the 4x100m freestyle relay : the blue quartet ( Alessandro Miressi, Paolo Conte Bonin, Leonardo Deplano and Thomas Ceccon ) won gold with a time of 3:02.75, a new world record . Silver for Australia and bronze for the USA.
(Unioneonline/lf)