Fresh off a European record in the men’s 1500-meter free, Italy’s Gregorio Paltrinieri dominated the men’s 800-meter free at the 2016 European Championships.
Paltrinieri won the finale in a time of 7:42.33, smashing his own meet record of 7:44.98 from the 2014 edition of the meet. He far surpassed Mack Horton as the top-ranked swimmer in the world this year as Horton had a 7:46.07 from the Australian Nationals.
Paltrinieri’s time is among the top 15 all time, but short of his European record of 7:40.81 from the 2015 World Championships.
Italy’s Gabriele Detti finished second tonight in 7:43.52 to move to second in the world, while Ukraine’s Mykhaylo Romanchuk clinched third overall in 7:47.99.
Czech’s Jan Micka (7:50.38), Great Britain’s Timothy Shuttleworth (7:50.52), Norway’s Henrik Christiansen (7:51.84), Hungary’s Gergely Gyurta (7:54.32) and France’s Joris Bouchaut (7:58.54) closed out the rest of the championship heat.
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