Veterans Dominate Arena Grand Prix 1 in Florence

FLORENCE, Italy, November 14. FOREIGN swimmers won six of the 12 events contested today, the first of two days of competition at the Arena Grand Prix 1, held in a short course (25 meter) pool in Florence.

Strangely, foreign swimmers took five of the six women's events, while the Italian men were five-for-six in their events.

Veterans Claudia Poll (Costa Rica), Mette Jacobsen (Denmark), Iryna Amshennikova (Ukraine), Mirna Jukic (Austria) and Therese Alshammar (Sweden) all came away from their sojourn to Florence with victories.
Alessia Filippi, who won a decisive victory in the 400 IM, was the only Italian woman to record a victory.

On the men's side, Italy's Emiliano Brembilla, Cesare Pizzirani, Alessandro Terrin, Filippo Magnini and Luca Martin all earned gold. Ukraine's Denys Sylantyev, who took the 100 fly, was the only non-Italian man to win.

RESULTS

WOMEN.
400 FREE:
1. Claudia Poll CRC 4.07.23
2. Simona Ricciardi 4.12.53
3. Elisa Pasini 4.13.46

100 FLY:
1. Mette Jacobsen DEN 59.21
2. Caterina Giacchetti 59.63
3. Ambra Migliori 59.98

100 BACK:
1. Iryna Amshennikova UKR 1.01.39
2. Roberta De Iorio 1.02.89
3. Alessia Filippi 1.03.22

100 BREAST:
1. Mirna Jukic AUT 1.07.88
2. Svitlana Bondarenko UKR 1.08.74
3. Sara Perez ESP 1.09.48

100 FREE:
1. Therese Alshammar SWE 54.91
2. Delfina Pinto 55.96
3. Flavia Zoccari 56.95

400 IM:
1. Alessia Filippi 4.41.87
2. Silvia Lucarini 4.48.73
3. Alice Franco 4.50.74.

MEN

400 FREE:
1. Emiliano Brembilla 3.46.22
2. Massimiliano Rosolino 3.48.27
3. Alessio Boggiatto 3.49.29

100 FLY:
1. Denis Sylantyev UKR 53.91
2. Tero Valinaa FIN 53.95
3. Luca Gardonio 54.29

100 BACK:
1. Cesare Pizzirani 53.33
2. Pavlo Illichov UKR 54.84
3. Simone Manni 55.63

100 BREAST:
1. Alessandro Terrin 1.00.30
2. Paolo Bossini 1.01.13
2. Loris Facci 1.01.13

100 FREE:
1. Filippo Magnini 47.61
2. Christian Galenda 48.99
3. Klaus Lanzarini 49.38

400 IM:
1. Luca Marin 4.14.87
2. Alessio Boggiatto 4.15.83
3. Vanni Mangoni 4.19.08

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