2023-07-28 08:03:43
She had held it since the World Championships in Rome in 2009. In one minute, 52 seconds and 85 hundredths on Wednesday, former Italian swimmer Federica Pellegrini saw her world record in the 200m freestyle slip away from her. Time for Australian Mollie O’Callaghan to win the Fukuoka World Championships (Japan) over the distance.
But the former glory of transalpine swimming especially took the opportunity to announce very good news, since she is expecting a little girl with her husband, Matteo Giunta, whom she married in August 2022. This is of the first child of the ex-swimmer, who will celebrate his 35th birthday in early August.
A record that she will “recover” with her baby
In a video uploaded to her Instagram account on Thursday, she appears in front of the camera briefly before lifting her blouse and revealing her somewhat rounded belly, which reads “We’ll take it back!” (We’ll get it back).
A humorous spade addressed to the 19-year-old Australian swimmer, while the little girl must be born “between December and January” in Verona, said future dad Matteo Giunta in an interview with the local Italian daily Adriatic Courier. The swimmer is “delighted”, according to her husband, who looks back on this record which escaped her at a favorable moment: “If her record had been beaten one or two years ago, she would not have appreciated it at all. From now on, life gives her so many other satisfactions: marriage, the baby… She is happy and very serene, ”he summed up.
Federica Pellegrini is one of the most successful swimmers in the world with an Olympic title, six world champions and seven European champions to her credit during her 17-year career, between 2004 and 2021. In France, she had mainly been presented as one of the rivals of Laure Manaudou, whom she faced many times in the 2000s.
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