Federica Pellegrini

Federica Pellegrini
Federica Pellegrini (2013)
Personal information
Surname:	Federica Pellegrini
Nickname (s):	Fede
Nation:	Italy
Swimming style (s) :	Freestyle
Society:	CC Aniene
Birthday:	5th August 1988
Place of birth:	Mirano
Size:	1.77 m
Weight:	59 kg
Medal table

At the 2009 World Championships

Federica Pellegrini (born August 5, 1988 in Mirano ) is an Italian swimmer. She is the 2008 Olympic champion in the 200 meter freestyle and six times world champion in the 200 and 400 meter freestyle.

Career

At the 2003 World Championships in Barcelona , she competed in a major international event for the first time, but without any major success. But just a year later she won the silver medal in the 200 meters freestyle at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens .

The following year she secured both the gold medal in the 200-meter freestyle and the silver medal in the 400-meter distance at the 2005 European Short Course Championships in Trieste (Italy) .

At the 2007 World Championships in Melbourne , she set a new world record over 200 meters freestyle in the semi-finals . In 1: 56.47 seconds she undercut Franziska van Almsick's old record by almost two tenths of a second. Just one day later in the finals, she lost the record to the French Laure Manaudou . Also Annika Lurz was quicker in the same race, Pellegrini won the bronze medal.

At the European Championships in Eindhoven in 2008 on March 24, 2008, with 4: 01.53 minutes, she set a new world record in the 400 meter freestyle and thus secured the second gold medal in her career.

On August 13, 2008, she became the first Italian female swimmer at the Olympic Games in Beijing to become Olympic champion in the 200 meter freestyle, in a world record time of 1: 54.82 minutes. She finished fifth in the 400 meter freestyle.

At the Mediterranean Games in Pescara in June 2009 Pelligrini swam on the 400-meter freestyle course for 4: 00.41 minutes, improving the world record lost in March 2009 to the British Joanne Jackson by two tenths. On March 8, 2009, she had already improved her own world record in the 200 meter freestyle to 1: 54.47 minutes. At the 2009 World Championships in Rome , she won gold in the 200 and 400 meters freestyle in front of a home crowd, both in world record times. In her victory over 400 meters, she was also the first woman to stay below the 4-minute limit.

At the 2011 World Championships in Shanghai , Pellegrini was able to defend her title in the 200 and 400 meter freestyle. She was then voted Europe's Sportswoman of the Year by the Union of European Sports Journalists (UEPS) . She was also Europe's Swimmer of the Year in 2009, 2010 and 2011 .

At the 2012 Olympics , she missed a medal with two fifth places. At the 2013 World Championships , she won silver in the 200m freestyle. At the European Championships she was European champion over 200 and 4 × 200 meters freestyle.

As four years before, Pellegrini missed a medal at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , where she actually wanted to end her career, and finished fourth in the 200 meter freestyle behind Katie Ledecky , Sarah Sjöström and Emma McKeon . The missed grand finale moved Pellegrini to continue her career.

At the 2017 World Championships in Budapest , Pellegrini won gold in the 200 meter freestyle championship for the third time. In the last 15 meters of the route she prevailed against the favored Katie Ledecky, who had to be satisfied with silver for the first time after twelve individual gold medals at world championships. As the first swimmer, she managed to win a medal at a world championship seven times in a row in the same swimming discipline. Immediately after the win, she announced that this was likely her last 200m final and that she would like to focus on the 100m course in the future.

At the 2019 World Swimming Championships in Gwangju , Pellegrini won the 200 meter freestyle in 1: 54.22 minutes.

Life

Pellegrini was successively in a relationship with the Italian swimmers Luca Marin and Filippo Magnini .

Records

World records (2)
200 m freestyle	01: 52.98 min	July 29, 2009	Rome
200 m freestyle (short course)	01: 51.17 min	December 13, 2009	Istanbul
European records (1)
400 m freestyle	03: 59.15 min	July 26, 2009	Rome
(As of August 13, 2014)

Awards

• Italy's Sportswoman of the Year ( La Gazzetta dello Sport ): 2008, 2009, 2011, 2019 and World Sportswoman of the Year 2009, 2011, 2017

Web links

Commons : Federica Pellegrini  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Federica Pellegrini's website (English, Italian)
• Federica Pellegrini on Instagram
• Federica Pellegrini in the Swimrankings.net database (English)
• Federica Pellegrini in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Sabrina Knoll: Italy's swimming star - La Pellegrini . Spiegel Online, July 25, 2019

Individual evidence

1. ↑ World record for Pelligrini
2. ↑ Swimming World Cup - Hungarian teenager breaks ten-year-old Phelps record . Spiegel Online, July 24, 2019
3. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from August 6, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 252 kB)