The results of the World Swimming Championships in Budapest only confirm that Gregorio Paltrinieri must be counted among the best athletes ever in the history of Italian sport. Not that the results were missing from the blue swimmer’s bulletin board, but these world championships and the Olympics faced after mononucleosis are the confirmation that he is more and more Super Greg. To tell the pool cross-country runner, let’s start with his successes that are not over yet: the appointment is at the European Championships in Rome in August and then at the Paris 2024 Olympics.
The medal table
The latest arrivals are four and to think that this world championship started with a fourth place in the 800 style. In the 10 km cross-country Gregorio Paltrinieri won gold as he did in the 1500 meters in the pool. For him also the silver in the 5 km and the bronze in the mixed 4×1500 relay. At the Olympics he won a gold, a silver and a bronze, the only Italian swimmer together with Massimiliano Rosolino. In total she has 12 world medals (better than Federica Pellegrini) of which 5 gold and 13 European without counting those in short course.
The versatility
Greg’s career, born on September 5, 1994, started in the pool, but for years he has decided to combine competitions in the pool with those in open water. He always swims high, as if he were above the wave. Stylistically not perfect, but certainly incisive. As a child he was a runner, when he lost that coordination he successfully turned to middle distance.
Friends
Gregorio Paltrinieri always seems to swim with friends who are in his team or among opponents. That in the 10 kilometers in Budapest is Italy’s first brace in the fund at the World Cup, behind him he placed his friend and training partner Domenico Acerenza. «There could not have been anything better: two on the podium. I felt that Mimmo was behind me, I recognized him from the way he touched my feet and I felt at home ». For years he has been training with Gabriele Detti. He has a great friendship with the Australian Mack Hortonamong the first contacted the Ukrainian Mychajlo Romančuk after the Russian invasion, he has excellent relations with the German Wellbrock.
Girlfriend
Since last year, his partner has been the Italian swordsman Rossella Fiamingo. “I’m having a very good story. For me, it’s love. We met years ago and met again, at a sponsor’s event, before the Olympics in Japan. In Tokyo we got very close, hours and hours talking, a very strange thing for me, that before the races I withdraw into my space and say very few words “he told the Corriere della Sera. Sport often separates them, but on social media she is his first supporter with stories at every race.
The interests
Greg loves design and architecture. “At school I was good at technical drawing.” The study has been sidelined even though he is enrolled in Political Science and International Relations in Rome. Since last summer he has had a great interest in the photography. “I have cameras with me wherever I go. I also started shooting with film ».
The cheering
Gregorio Paltrinieri from Carpi supports Juventus. His favorite sport to practice after swimming, however, is basketball, a passion he shares with his friend Gianmarco Tamberi. Cheer New York Knicks.
I commit
Last year it fought for the reopening of the swimming pools after the close due to the pandemic. He dedicated a medal to “children who cannot cultivate their dreams, as I managed to do, when as a child I went to the pool and dreamed of becoming a champion, I’m sorry that they have been precluded for two years now this opportunity”.
The sea
The Olympic champion brought together all his passions: swimming, sea and environment and gave life to the project Dominate The Water. With one main goal: to protect the environment.
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Lucidity
Pay attention Gregorio Paltrinieri always says something interesting. He always knows how to analyze the race and tell it in an original way. Words are enough after the medal in the 800 freestyle in Tokyo 2020: «A great friend of mine wrote to me on the eve that these finals are won with the heart. I thought about it and he was right. I have always planned everything in life and I had put too much head into it, too many confused ideas. Today I did my best, and the others could do any strategy but the heart is what counts ».
Checco Zalone
If there is a character that Greg likes it is Checco Zalone: «For me it is the perfect photograph of the average Italian, it tells our defects well and makes you laugh. If snobs don’t like patience, ”he told al Corriere della Sera.
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Source: Vanity Fair
