Risking more than expected, Gregorio Paltrinieri he still reaches his goal for the day and qualifies for the 800m freestyle final at the 2024 World Swimming Championships, currently taking place at the Aspire Dome in Doha. The champion from Carpi, fresh from the world championship in open water, began his journey in the pool well, passing the heats with the seventh overall time in 7’47″38.
The blue, engaged in the penultimate heat, he had finished his heat in fourth position, putting himself in a rather dangerous situation waiting for the last athletes. In the end only three of them did better than him, who thus achieved the pass for tomorrow’s final act with a margin of around seven tenths over the first of the excluded.
The Rio 2016 Olympic champion in the 1500 freestyle spoke to Rai Sport’s microphones immediately after the heat: “Different sensations compared to the bottom. Always try not to waste too much. I hope to get in at this point, because I’m fourth so I’m a bit on the limit. Let’s see how much they do in the last heat. The sensations were fair for a heat, but it would be very important to get in so I’m waiting for the outcome of the last heat“.
Swimming, Luca De Tullio in the final with the best time in the 800 freestyle at the World Championships, even Paltrinieri sweating inside
On the transition from open water to pool racing: “Each race is very different from those that have come before. The transition from bottom to pool has been good these days. I thought about swimming a little less, because I didn’t want to overdo it and give 100%, but sometimes you lose out by playing with fire. Tomorrow will be a different story if I were to go in“.
2024-02-13 10:11:43
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