{"id":468017,"date":"2021-04-02T05:52:36","date_gmt":"2021-04-02T12:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=468017"},"modified":"2021-04-02T05:53:33","modified_gmt":"2021-04-02T12:53:33","slug":"martinenghi-goes-fourth-in-history-over-50-breaststroke-in-26-47-during-prelims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/martinenghi-goes-fourth-in-history-over-50-breaststroke-in-26-47-during-prelims\/","title":{"rendered":"Martinenghi Goes Fourth In History Over 50 Breaststroke In 26.47 During Prelims"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nicolo Martinenghi<\/strong> became the fourth-fastest man in history over 50m breaststroke\u00a0 as he set an Italian record of\u00a026.47 in Saturday’s heats of the Italian Swimming Championships<\/strong> in Riccione.<\/p>\n

The 21-year-old has been on scorching form and on Friday went third all-time over 100br in 58.37<\/a>\u00a0 to announce himself as a medal contender over two lengths in Tokyo<\/strong> come July.<\/p>\n

Martinenghi then returned to the pool on Saturday morning for the prelims where he sliced 0.09 from his previous record of 26.56, set in December 2020 – also in Riccione.<\/p>\n

Only Adam Peaty<\/strong> and his world record of 25.95 plus Brazilian pair Felipe Lima<\/strong> (26.33) and Joao Gomes<\/strong> (26.42) have gone quicker.<\/p>\n

Martinenghi told the Italian Swimming Federation:<\/p>\n

“I am very happy with the record.<\/p>\n
“It is a performance that I wanted to do and I am happy to have succeeded.<\/p>\n
“I was very excited. I arrived at the pool without expectations, but I am very well and the performance came out.<\/p>\n
“In the afternoon I will try to improve further and then we aim for the European Championships in Budapest.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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