It is impossible to forget the exploits of our Federica Pellegrini, the Italian swimmer who left her mark on her career.
Il I swim It is one of the sports where Italy generally excels at an international level. This was also seen during the last Olympic Games in Paris 2024where the Italian athletes took away two golds (thanks to the exploits of Martinenghi and Ceccon), one silver and two bronzes from the pool.
But this was the first Olympics in which Italy did not see among its absolute athletes the presence of Federica Pellegrini. Or rather the queen of Italian swimming, the Divina who has left all her supporters breathless for many years thanks to her prowess in the water, particularly in women’s freestyle.
In his career the Pellegrini he has won everything: world titles, European titles, in long and short course and in his favourite distances: 200 meters and 400 meters freestylecategories in which Federica excelled in an extraordinary way. Today she has chosen to do something else, leaving the world of swimming for a few years with her head held high and with a list of achievements that would be the envy of anyone.
Beijing 2008, the memory of Pellegrini’s victory
Right in these days the world of Italian sport and swimming in particular cannot fail to remember an anniversary that concerns the same Federica Pellegrini. In fact, on August 13th sixteen years ago, the Venetian champion managed to conquer the gold medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Gamesa review that will be remembered by everyone for Fede’s extraordinary exploit.
16 years ago Federica Pellegrini won gold in Beijing 2008 in the 200 meters (Lapresse) – Sportitalia.itThe Pellegrini She was the favorite in the women’s 400-meter freestyle race, but after dominating the first heats she was unable to express herself at her best in the pool, finishing only in fifth place in the final. But the beautiful and talented athlete made up for it in the 200 meters: after having qualified with merit, Federica literally pulverized every record in the final act.
A perfect race by Pellegrini, who managed to detach herself from her dangerous rival Sara Isakovic and win gold in the 200m, also obtaining a new world record for the distance: 1’54″82surpassing the measure she herself had achieved in the heats and leaving behind the previous record of Laure Manaudou.
The sprint of Federica Pellegrini in the Beijing pool she is still in everyone’s eyes, since 16 years ago she demonstrated her absolute power in the pool, establishing herself as one of the strongest swimmers in Italian history. It’s just a shame that in the subsequent Rio de Janeiro Olympics in 2016 she stopped at a disappointing fourth place.