FLASH! Italy Sets World Record Of 3:02.75 In Men’s 4×100 Freestyle Relay

Paolo Conte Bonin, Leonardo Deplano, Alessandro Miressi and Thomas Ceccon of Italy bite the gold medals after winning the gold medal in the 4x100m Freestyle Relay Men Final, with a new world record, during the FINA Swimming Short Course World Championships at the Melbourne Sports and Aquatic Centre in Melbourne, Australia, December 13th, 2022. Photo Giorgio Scala / Deepbluemedia / Insidefoto

Paolo Conte Bonin, Leonardo Deplano, Alessandro Miressi & Thomas Ceccon; Photo Courtesy: Giorgio Scala / Deepbluemedia / Insidefoto

A Special Thanks to Deep Blue Media for providing the images from this meet

FLASH! Italy Sets World Record Of 3:02.75 In Men’s 4×100 Freestyle Relay at World Championships

Italy set a world record of 3:02.75 in the men’s 4x100m freestyle relay final at the World Short-Course Championships in Melbourne.

The quartet of Alessandro Miressi, Paolo Conte Bonin, Leonardo Deplano and Thomas Ceccon led throughout and stopped the clock 0.28secs inside the previous WR of 3:03.03 set by the United States in Hangzhou in 2018.

It also sliced 0.36 off the European mark of 3:03.11 set by Russia four years ago in Hangzhou.

Splits:

Miressi: 10.45/22.06/34.04/46.15

Conte Bonin: 10.17/21.90/33.90/45.93

Deplano: 9.84/21.33/33.51/45.54

Ceccon: 9.78/21.33/33.13/45.13

Kyle Chalmers swam the only sub-45 split of the field in 44.98, to propel Australia past the United States into silver in an Oceania record of 3.04.63.

The USA were third in 3:05.09.

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