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Lorenzo Galossi
Personal information
National team Italy Italy
Born (2006-05-25) 25 May 2006 (age 18) [1]
Rome, Italy
Height190 cm (6 ft 3 in) [1]
Weight84 kg (185 lb) [1]
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Freestyle
Club CC Aniene
Medal record
Men's swimming
Representing   Italy
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
European Championships (LC) 0 1 1
European Junior Championships 3 1 2
Total 3 2 3
European Championships (LC)
Silver medal – second place 2022 Rome 4×200 m freestyle
Bronze medal – third place 2022 Rome 800 m freestyle
European Junior Championships
Gold medal – first place 2022 Otopeni 400 m freestyle
Gold medal – first place 2022 Otopeni 800 m freestyle
Gold medal – first place 2022 Otopeni 4×200 m freestyle
Silver medal – second place 2022 Otopeni 200 m freestyle
Bronze medal – third place 2021 Rome 4×200 m freestyle
Bronze medal – third place 2022 Otopeni 4×100 m freestyle

Lorenzo Galossi (born 25 May 2006) is an Italian competitive swimmer. He is the world junior record in the long course 800-metre freestyle and the European junior record holder in the long course 400-metre freestyle. At the 2022 European Aquatics Championships, he won the bronze medal in the 800-metre freestyle. At the 2022 European Junior Championships, he won medals in three individual events, the gold medal each in the 400-metre freestyle and the 800-metre freestyle and the silver medal in the 200-metre freestyle.

Background

Galossi was born 25 May 2006 in the Mentana area of Rome, Italy and competes for Circolo Canottieri Aniene, CC Aniene, in national and regional competitions. [1] [2] The end of 2022 to beginning of 2023, he transitioned coaching and training methodologies, one change of which included swimming in the evening instead of the early afternoon. [3]

Career

2021–2022

At the 2021 European Junior Swimming Championships, held in Rome in July, Galossi won a bronze medal as part of the 4×200-metre freestyle relay, splitting a 1:50.32 for the first leg of the relay, placed fifth in the 800-metre freestyle, 11th in the 400-metre freestyle, and 12th in the 200-metre freestyle. [4] The following year, as a 15-year-old at the 2022 Italian National Spring Championships in Riccione, he won the silver medal in the 400-metre freestyle with a European junior record time of 3:45.93, qualified for the 2022 World Aquatics Championships in the event, and placed fourth in the 800-metre freestyle with a personal best time of 7:49.76. [5] [6] [7] [8]

2022 World Aquatics Championships

For swimming competition at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships, held in June at Danube Arena in Budapest, Hungary, Galossi entered to compete in the 400-metre freestyle. [9] [10] He placed twelfth in the preliminaries of the event, not qualifying for the final with his time of 3:47.19, which was 0.72 seconds behind fellow Italian Marco De Tullio who advanced to the final ranking eighth. [11] [12] [13] [14]

2022 European Junior Championships

2022 European Junior Championships
Gold medal – first place 800 m freestyle 7:52.04
Gold medal – first place 4×200 m freestyle 7:17.45
Gold medal – first place 400 m freestyle 3:48.14
Silver medal – second place 200 m freestyle 1:47.71
Bronze medal – third place 4×100 m freestyle 3:19.42

Less than three weeks later, on 5 July, Galossi won a bronze medal in the 4×100-metre freestyle relay on the first day of the 2022 European Junior Swimming Championships, held in Otopeni, Romania, splitting a 50.08 for the lead-off leg of the relay in the final to help achieve a time of 3:19.42. [15] The following day, he won a silver medal in the 200-metre freestyle with a personal best time of 1:47.71 seconds to narrowly finish less than two-tenths of a second ahead of bronze medalist Jacob Whittle of Great Britain. [15] [16] [17] Three days later, he started the finals session winning a gold medal in the 800-metre freestyle with a time of 7:52.04. [18] [19] A little under 30 minutes after this first gold medal of the session, he followed his performance up with a second gold medal, this time helping achieve the first-place finish in the 4×200-metre freestyle relay in a time of 7:17.45 swimming the fourth-leg of the relay. [18] [20] On 10 July, the final day of competition, he won the gold medal in the 400-metre freestyle with a time of 3:48.14, finishing over two seconds ahead of the two swimmers who tied for the silver medal Vlad Stancu of Romania and Krzysztof Chmielewski of Poland. [21] [22]

Ten days later, at the 2022 Italian National Summer Championships in Ostia during the 2022 European heat waves with temperatures around 40 °C (104 °F), Galossi lowered his personal best time in the 800-metre freestyle to a 7:46.28, which marked a drop of over three seconds. [2] On 21 July, as part of the same Championships, he lowered his personal best time in the 200-metre freestyle to a 1:47.42. [23]

2022 European Aquatics Championships

2022 European Championships (LC)
Silver medal – second place 4×200 m freestyle 7:06.25
Bronze medal – third place 800 m freestyle 7:43.37 (WJ)

Galossi was the youngest swimmer named to the Italy team roster for the 2022 European Aquatics Championships, held in August in Rome, at 16 years of age. [24] On day one, he swam a 1:47.00 for the anchor leg of the 4×200-metre freestyle relay in the preliminaries, contributing to a time of 7:09.03 and first-rank final qualification. [25] In the final, he split a 1:47.91 for the second leg of the relay to help win the silver medal in a time of 7:06.25. [26] [27] [28] The following day, he ranked fourth in the preliminaries of the 800-metre freestyle with a time of 7:49.08, qualifying for the final less than two-tenths of a second behind third-ranked fellow Italian Gregorio Paltrinieri. [29] [30] [31] He won the bronze medal in the final with a personal best, world junior record, and European junior record time of 7:43.37 at 16 years, 80 days of age. [32] [33] [34] [35] [36] [37] His new world junior record, broke the former mark set by Mack Horton of Australia at 7:45.67 in 2013 by over two full seconds. [38] Day seven of seven, he ranked fifth in the preliminaries of the 400 metre freestyle with a 3:48.15, just 0.17 seconds ahead of fellow Italian Gabriele Detti, who ranked sixth, and as Galossi and Detti were the two fastest Italians they both qualified for the evening final. [39] With a time of 3:46.94 in the final, he placed fifth, finishing 2.41 seconds behind bronze medalist Henning Mühlleitner of Germany. [40] [41]

2023

For the January to April 2023 time frame, Galossi focused on recovery from illness ( mononucleosis) and transitioning coaches and training methodologies with uncertainty expressed as to whether he would be well enough to compete at the 2023 Assoluti Championships and 2023 World Aquatics Championships. [3]

International championships (50 m)

Meet 200 freestyle 400 freestyle 800 freestyle 4×100 freestyle relay 4×200 freestyle relay
Junior level
EJC 2021
(age: 15)		 12th
(1:51.32)		 11th
(3:55.20)		 5th
(8:01.94)		 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
(split 1:50.32, 1st leg)
EJC 2022
(age: 16)		 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
(1:47.71)		 1st place, gold medalist(s)
(3:48.14)		 1st place, gold medalist(s)
(7:52.04)		 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
(split 50.08, 1st leg)		 1st place, gold medalist(s)
(split 1:48.76, 4th leg)
Senior level
WC 2022
(age: 16)		 12th
(3:47.19)
EC 2022
(age: 16)		 DNS
(NT)		 5th
(3:46.94)		 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
(7:43.37 WJ)		 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
(split 1:47.91, 2nd leg)

Personal best times

Long course metres (50 m pool)

Event Time Meet Location Date Notes Ref
100 m freestyle 50.08 r 2022 European Junior Swimming Championships Otopeni, Romania 5 July 2022 [15]
200 m freestyle 1:47.42 2022 Italian National Summer Championships Ostia 21 July 2022 [23]
400 m freestyle 3:45.93 2022 Italian National Spring Championships Riccione 9 April 2022 EJ [5] [6] [7] [8]
800 m freestyle 7:43.37 2022 European Aquatics Championships Rome 13 August 2022 WJ, EJ [32] [34]

Legend: WJ – World junior record; EJ – European junior record; r – relay 1st leg

Records

European junior records

Long course metres (50 m pool)

No. Event Time Meet Location Date Age Notes Ref
1 400 m freestyle 3:45.93 2022 Italian National Spring Championships Riccione 9 April 2022 15 years, 319 days [5] [6] [7] [8]
2 800 m freestyle 7:43.37 2022 European Aquatics Championships Rome 13 August 2022 16 years, 80 days WJ [32] [34] [35] [36] [37] [38]

Legend: WJ – World junior record

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