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Sara Curtis oro e nuovo record nei 50 dorso è già patrimonio dello sport italiano

13 Aug

Sara Curtis's gold medal and new record in the 50m backstroke are already part of Italian sport's heritage

Army Sports Center, CS Roero, Paul Barelli, Sara Curtis, Thomas Maggiora, Todd DeSorbo, Virginia University

PARIS - Sara Curtis is the current phenomenon in Italian swimming. She won the gold medal in the 50-meter backstroke and set the world record she set in the semifinals at 26.56, seven hundredths of a second faster than her time on Wednesday at the European Championships in Paris. Sara emerged from the water smiling, happy, radiant, and to yet another well-deserved standing ovation from the crowd at the Olympic Aquatic Centre, home of the 38th European Swimming Championships. "I'm truly delighted," she said after her second feat in 24 hours. "It was hard to handle the record-breaking emotions of Wednesday. During the race…

Sara Curtis breaks new world record at European 50m backstroke final

Army Sports Center, CS Roero, Paul Barelli, Sara Curtis

Sara Curtis qualifies for the 50m backstroke final at the European Championships in Paris, clocking an extraordinary world record of 26.63, just twenty-three hundredths of a second shy of Australian Kaylee McKeown's 26.86 in Budapest in 2023. The crowd gave the Italian swimmer a standing ovation, also erasing her European record of 27.07, set in the final at the 62nd Settecolli IP. "It's every swimmer's lifelong dream," Curtis said. "I told myself to do a great underwater phase, to push until the end because I knew my legs would hold up. I can't believe it; it seems truly crazy."

Sara Curtis, third in the 100m freestyle, writes a page in the history of Italian swimming

Army Sports Center, CS Roero, Marrit Steenbergen, Sara Curtis, Thomas Maggiora, Todd DeSorbo

PARIS – Sara Curtis won a historic bronze medal in the 100m freestyle in 52.72 at the European Long Course Championships at the Olympic Aquatic Centre in Paris. This was the first international long course podium for the 20-year-old from Savigliano—registered with the Italian Army and CS Roero, coached at Virginia University by Todd De Sorbo, and coached in Italy by Thomas Maggiora—who passed in 25.24, returned in 27.48, and swam just three hundredths of a second off her Italian record of 52.69, set in the final of the last Settecolli IP when Marrit Steenbergen set a world record of 51.68; the twenty-six-year-old…