Alessia Filippi

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Alessia Filippi

Filippi at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships.
Personal information
Full name Alessia Filippi
Nationality  Italy
Born 23 June 1987 (1987-06-23) (age 24)
Rome
Height 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Stroke(s) Freestyle , Backstroke and medley
Club Aurelia Nuoto

Alessia Filippi (born 23 June 1987 in Rome) is an Italian swimmer.

Filippi excels in backstroke and individual medley races, as well as in middle-distance freestyle (400 to 1500 m).

She won 400 m individual medley at the 2006 European Swimming Championships in Budapest.[2] She also won a bronze medal in the same championship, and a silver medal in the 2006 short-course World Championships. In December 2006 she confirmed her title at the 2006 short-course European Championships in Helsinki. In July 2008 she broke the European record in the 1500 m freestyle[3] (long course). After winning two gold medals in the 2008 European Aquatics Championships in Eindhoven earlier that year. She became champion in the 400 m individual medley and the 800 m freestyle.[4]

On 12 December 2008, at the European Short Course Swimming Championships 2008 held in Rijeka, she set the new world record in the 800 m freestyle (short course), with the time of 8:04.53.

Filippi won the gold medal in the 1500 m at the 2009 World Championships in Rome.

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She currently holds 1 World record (marked as WR), 3 European records (ER) and 12 Italian records (IR). Her personal bests (as of the 25 April 2009) are:

Event Long course (year) Short course (year)
200 m freestyle 1:58.42 (2008) 1:59.40 (2008)
400 m freestyle 4:07.15 (2009) 3:59.35 (2008) IR
800 m freestyle 8:17.21 (2009) IR 8:04.53 (2008) WR
1500 m freestyle 15:44.93 (2009) ER 16:14.3 (2006)
100 m backstroke 1:01.52 (2006) 1:01.25 (2006)
200 m backstroke 2:08.44 (2009) IR 2:04.55 (2009) IR
200 m individual medley 2:13.08 (2007) 2:11.69 (2008)
400 m individual medley 4:34.34 (2008) IR 4:26.06 (2008) IR
4×100 m freestyle relay 3:39.18 (2006) IR
4×200 m freestyle relay 7:49.76 (2008) ER 7:50.39 (2006) IR
4×100 m medley relay 4:04.90 (2008) IR

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Records
Preceded by
United States Kate Ziegler
Women's 800 metre freestyle
world record holder (short course)

12 December 2008 – present
Succeeded by
Incumbent


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