2026 Sette Colli Trophy: Day Two Finals Stay Recap

67th SETTE COLLI TROPHY 

We have some doubtlessly explosive finals on the agenda for this night, day two of the 2026 Sette Colli Trophy, happening in Rome, Italy.

This morning, American Gretchen Walsh claimed two prime seeds, hitting a time of 55.47 for a brand new meet document within the 100m fly, and posting 53.38 for a brand new season-best within the 100m free.

She’ll be challenged by the likes of Roos Vanotterdijk of Belgium and Angelina Köhler of Germany within the former, whereas on-fire Dutch Olympian Marrit Steenbergen and Hong Kong multi-Olympic medalist Siobhan Haughey of Hong Kong will probably be chasing Walsh within the latter dash.

Sara Curtis, final evening’s 50m again European Record-setting athlete, can even be placing her hat within the ring for attainable 100m free {hardware}.

Italian nationwide document holder Nicolo Martinenghi will search gold within the males’s 100m breaststroke after lacking the rostrum final evening within the 50m.

His counterpart Benedetta Pilato would be the one to beat within the ladies’s 50m breaststroke, though countrywoman Lisa Angiolini doesn’t sit very far behind.

Federico Burdisso, 2020 Olympic bronze medalist of the host nation, will probably be vying for gold within the 200m fly, whereas Greek Olympic medalist Apostolos Christou will probably be in search of the identical potential podium-topping efficiency within the 100m again.

Add within the males’s and ladies’s 400m IM closing and the quickest heats of their respective 800m free and tonight’s lineup is must-watch from begin to end.

WOMEN’S 100 FLY – FINAL

• World Record – 54.33, Gretchen Walsh (USA), 2026
• World Junior Record – 56.43, Clair Curzan (USA), 2021
• European Record – 55.48, Sarah Sjostrom (SWE), 2016
• European Junior Record – 56.46 Benchmark
• Italian Record – 57.04, Elenna Di Liddo, 2019
• Meet Record – 55.47, Gretchen Walsh, 2026

GOLD – Gretchen Walsh (USA), 54.82 *Meet Record
SILVER  – Roos Vanotterdijk (BEL), 57.24
BRONZE – Anna Ntountounaki (GRE), 57.79

Ladies and gents, we’ve got a brand new meet document to kick off tonight’s occasions, with 23-year-old World Record holder Gretchen Walsh throwing down a big-time swim of 54.82 to simply take the gold.

She already established a meet document out of the morning heats, courtesy of the 55.47, which overtook Sarah Sjostrom‘s former benchmark of 56.04 from 2015.

Tonight, Walsh opened in 25.26 and closed in 29.56 to get to the wall properly over two seconds forward of the pack.

Belgium’s versatile nationwide document holder Roos Vanotterdijk produced 57.24 because the silver medalist, adopted by Greece’s Anna Ntountounaki, who hit 57.79, adequate for bronze.

Vanotterdijk owns the Belgian customary on the PB of 55.84 logged on the 2025 World Championships for the silver medal. Ntountounaki’s Greek customary stands on the 57.25 notched on the 2020 Olympic Games.

Walsh is the present World Record holder within the 100m fly, together with her lifetime better of 54.33 only a springboard for the girl who says she needs to interrupt the 54-second barrier.

Tonight’s efficiency represents the Fifth-fastest time of Walsh’s already-incredible profession and the Fifth-fastest efficiency of all time. She stays the one girl to ever clear the 55-second barrier within the occasion.

American Gretchen Walsh‘s Top 5 Performances in LCM 100 Butterfly

1. 54.33, 2026 *WR*
2. 54.60, 2025
3. 54.73, 2025
4. 54.76, 2025
5. 54.82, 2026

MEN’S 200 FLY – FINAL

• World Record – 1:50.34, Kristof Milak (HUN), 2022
• World Junior Record – 1:53.79, Kristof Milak (HUN), 2017
• European Record – 1:50.34, Kristof Milak (HUN), 2022
• European Junior Record – 1:52.71, Kristof Milak (HUN), 2018
• Italian Record – 1:54.28, Federico Burdisso, 2021
• Meet Record – 1:53.18, Kristof Milak (HUN), 2021

GOLD – Federico Burdisso (ITA), 1:55.10
SILVER  – Richard Marton (HUN), 1:55.51 
BRONZE – Noe Ponti (SUI), 1:56.10

The host nation earned its first medal of the night, courtesy of 24-year-old Olympic bronze medalist Federico Burdisso within the males’s 200m fly.

Burdisso punched a results of 1:55.10, tightening up on the finish, however nonetheless hanging on robust sufficient to maintain a charging Hungarian in Richard Marton at bay.

26-year-old Marton settled for silver lower than half a second again in 1:55.51, for the Sixth-swiftest time of his profession, with Swiss celebrity and Olympic medalist Noe Ponti rounding out the rostrum in 1:56.10.

Burdisso’s time checks in as a brand new season-best, rating him seventeenth on the planet in the meanwhile. It additionally represents the Tenth-swiftest efficiency of his profession sufficient to qualify him for the European Championships.

A one-time swimmer for Northwestern within the NCAA, Burdisso broke by with a bronze on this 200m fly occasion on the 2020 Olympic Games (1:54.45).

Since that point, nevertheless, the Italian has been principally quiet on the person occasion aspect, save for a males’s medley relay bronze on the 2024 World Championships. His instances this morning and this night beat his former season-best of 1:57.26 from the Lausanne Swim Cup, hopefully giving Burdisso followers some positivity that he’s trending in the fitting course with the European Championships on the horizon.

WOMEN’S 100 BACK – FINAL

• World Record – 57.13, Regan Smith (USA), 2024
• World Junior Record – 57.57, Regan Smith (USA), 2019
• European Record – 58.08, Kathleen Dawson (GBR), 2021
• European Junior Record – 59.08, Anastasia Shkurdai (BLR), 2020
• Italian Record – 58.92, Margherita Panziera, 2019
• Meet Record – 59.23, Kira Toussaint (NED), 2021

GOLD – Martina Biasioli (ITA), 1:00.77
SILVER  – Federica Toma (ITA), 1:00.84
BRONZE – Anita Gastaldi (ITA), 1:00.98

The ladies’s 100m again closing was on the subdued aspect, with no contender dipping beneath the 1:00 barrier in tonight’s closing.

Martina Biasioli led an Italian sweep of the rostrum, with the 22-year-old posting 1:00.77 to proceed her momentum from grabbing the highest seed out of the morning heats.

Teammate Federica Toma reached the wall subsequent, simply .07 behind in 1:00.84, with Anita Gastaldi additionally proper there within the combine with a bronze medal-worthy outing of 1:00.98.

The ladies had been chasing a range customary of 1:00.29 with a purpose to qualify for the Italian roster for this summer time’s European Championships, so the highest 3 all fell in need of that feat.

MEN’S 100 BACK – FINAL

• World Record – 51.60, Thomas Ceccon (ITA), 2022
• World Junior Record – 52.08, Miron Lifintsev (RUS), 2024
• European Record – 51.60, Thomas Ceccon (ITA), 2022
• European Junior Record – 52.08, Miron Lifintsev (RUS), 2024
• Italian Record – 51.60, Thomas Ceccon, 2022
• Meet Record – 52.43, Thomas Ceccon (ITA), 2024

GOLD – Apostolos Christou (GRE), 52.47
SILVER  – Adam Jaszo (HUN), 53.70
BRONZE – Francesco Lazzari (ITA), 53.91

29-year-old Olympic medalist Apostolos Christou of Greece put his expertise on show in an enormous manner within the mens’ 100m backstroke, crushing a swift effort of 52.47 to handily defeat his opponents this night.

Christou opened in 25.36 and closed in 27.11 to beat the pack by properly over a second, with Hungarian Adam Jaszo checking in because the next-closest swimmer in 53.70.

Italy bagged the bronze, courtesy of Francesco Lazzari‘s swim of 53.91.

For Christou’s half, his outing right here was inside placing distance of his best-ever and Greek nationwide document of 52.09 notched almost 4 years in the past on the 2022 World Championships. In truth, the Greek’s efficiency her represents the Seventh-quickest of his profession to rank 4th on the planet this season.

WOMEN’S 400 IM – FINAL

• World Record – 4:23.65, Summer McIntosh (CAN), 2025
• World Junior Record – 4:24.38, Summer McIntosh (CAN), 2024
• European Record – 4:26.36, Katinka Hosszu (HUN), 2016
• European Junior Record – 4:34.96, Vivien Jackl (HUN), 2024
• Italian Record – 4:34.34, Alessia Filippi, 2008
• Meet Record – 4:34.65, Ilaria Cusinato (ITA), 2018

GOLD – Alex Walsh (USA), 4:35.25
SILVER  – Ellen Walshe (IRL), 4:37.20
BRONZE – Anna Pirovano (ITA), 4:39.38

Alex Walsh of the United States placed on a strong present within the ladies’s 400m IM, notching a big-time swim of 4:35.25 to seize the gold.

She got here inside a second of the longstanding meet document of 4:34.65 that Italy’s Ilaria Cusinato established in 2018 and tonight’s effort represents Olympic medalist Walsh’s 2nd-fastest time ever.

Walsh’s private greatest stays on the 4:34.46 notched on the 2023 World Championships, so the University of Virginia expertise was lower than a second off that PB.

Ireland’s reigning nationwide document holder Ellen Walshe got here into the wall subsequent in 4:37.20, with Italy’s Anna Pirovano additionally touchdown on the rostrum in 4:39.38, adequate for bronze.

MEN’S 400 IM – FINAL

• World Record – 4:02.50, Leon Marchand (FRA), 2023
• World Junior Record – 4:08.84, Yumeki Kojima (JPN), 2026
• European Record – 4:02.50, Leon Marchand (FRA), 2023
• European Junior Record – 4:10.02, Ilya Borodin (RUS), 2021
• Italian Record – 4:09.29, Alberto razzetti, 2023
• Meet Record – 4:07.47, David Verraszto (HUN), 2017

GOLD – Alberto Razzetti (ITA), 4:13.37
SILVER  – Gabor Zombori (HUN), 4:14.55
BRONZE – Emanuele Potenza (ITA), 4:16.36

Nothing too loopy occurred within the males’s version of the 400m IM closing, with no competitor clearing the 4:10 barrier.

Domestic ace and nationwide document holder Alberto Razzetti grabbed the gold in 4:13.37, with Hungarian Gabor Zombori downgraded from being the highest seed to now silver medalist in 4:14.55.

Razzetti’s countryman Emanuele Potenza earned third place in 4:16.36.

WOMEN’S 100 FREE – FINAL

• World Record – 51.71, Sarah Sjostrom (SWE), 2017
• World Junior Record – 52.70, Penny Oleksiak (CAN), 2016
• European Record – 51.71, Sarah Sjostrom (SWE), 2017
• European Junior Record – 53.61, Freya Anderson (GBR), 2018
• Italian Record – 53.01, Sara Curtis, 2025
• Meet Record – 52.57, Sarah Sjostrom (SWE), 2024

GOLD – Marrit Steenbergen (NED), 51.68 *World Record*
SILVER  – Siobhan Haughey (HKG), 52.52 52.02
BRONZE – Sara Curtis (ITA), 52.69 *Italian Record*

This ladies’s 100m freestyle closing was one for the ages, as on-fire Dutch Olympian Marrit Steenbergen took down the historic World Record in an other-worldly time of 51.68.

Opening in 24.98 and bringing it house in 26.70, Steenbergen’s monster effort erased Swedish Olympic icon Sarah Sjostrom‘s longstanding WR of 51.71, which she placed on the books almost a decade in the past in 2017.

26-year-old World Championships gold medalist Steenbergen was already the #1 swimmer on the planet coming into this 1free closing, courtesy of the 51.86 nationwide document she put up in May on the Mare Nostrum Tour cease in Canet. That was adopted shortly by one other eye-popping time of 51.97 simply two days later on the Barcelona version to change into the first-ever girl to notch a couple of 51-second swim.

Sara Curtis, the versatile University of Virginia celebrity, adopted up her 50m again European Record from final evening with an enormous lifetime greatest and Italian nationwide document of 52.69 for the bronze. That marks her first-ever foray beneath the 53-second barrier to make historical past for her nation.

Not to be misplaced was 4-time Olympic medalist Siobhan Haughey of Hong Kong’s still-impressive time of 52.52 for silver. That was precisely a half-second off her personal nationwide document of 52.02. She already ranked 4th on the planet coming into this meet because of the 52.36 etched in Monaco.

Look for separate posts on Steenbergen’s and Curtis’ swims.

MEN’S 100 FREE – FINAL

• World Record – 46.40, Pan Zhanle (CHN), 2024
• World Junior Record – 46.86, David Popovici (ROU), 2022
• European Record – 46.51, David Popovici (ROU), 2025
• European Junior Record – 46.86, David Popovici (ROU), 2022
• Italian Record – 47.45, Alessandro Miressi, 2021
• Meet Record – 47.60, Egor Kornev (RUS), 2025

GOLD – David Popovici (ROU), 47.26 *Meet Record*
SILVER  – Gui Caribe (BRA), 47.88
BRONZE – Kristof Milak (HUN), 47.89

After the high-octane closing of the ladies’s 100m free, the boys bought their flip, with a brand new meet document biting the mud by the hands of Romanian David Popovici.

Stopping the clock at an excellent speedy results of 47.26, Popovici led a trio of sub-48-second swimmers.

Joining him beneath the barrier was Brazil’s Gui Caribe, who notched 47.88, with Hungarian World Record holder within the 200m fly Kristof Milak additionally in that zone with a mark of 47.89.

Croatian nationwide document holder Jere Hribar hit 48.11 for the third seed out of the heats however wound up lacking the rostrum, relegated to 4th place in 48.06. That, nevertheless, put his personal Croatian benchmark of 47.93 from the 2025 World Championships on discover.

Popovici was already 47.72 this morning, so we knew one thing particular was so as from the 21-year-old. His gold medal-winning swim crushed his former season-best of 47.52 put up at April’s Romanian Championships and he’s now the #2 swimmer on the planet proper now.

This males’s 100m free is getting extra cut-throat by the minute. Just final evening on the Spanish Championships, two swimmers cleared the 48-second barrier for the primary time ever. Luca Hoek notched 47.72 for a brand new nationwide document and Cesar Castro hit 47.98.

The prime 19 athletes on the planet in the meanwhile are all within the 47-second zone, making this one of many deepest fields of all males’s occasions around the globe.

As a aspect be aware, a fully-bearded Thomas Ceccon received the B-Final in 48.52.

WOMEN’S 50 BREAST – FINAL

• World Record – 29.16, Ruta Meilutyte (LTU), 2023
• World Junior Record – 29.30, Benedetta Pilato (ITA), 2021
• European Record – 29.16, Ruta Meilutyte (LTU), 2023
• European Junior Record – 29.30, Benedetta Pilato (ITA), 2021
• Italian Record – 29.30, Benedetta Pilato, 2021
• Meet Record – 29.69, Benedetta Pilato, 2021

GOLD – Benedetta Pilato (ITA), 30.00
SILVER  – Lisa Angiolini (ITA), 30.49
BRONZE – Mona McSharry (IRL), 30.66

21-year-old home nationwide document holder Benedetta Pilato stored her pace from capturing the highest seed on this morning’s heats, successful the 50m breaststroke closing in a fast results of 30.00.

That held off teammate Lisa Angiolini, who touched slightly below half a second later in 30.49, with Irish nationwide document holder and Olympic medalist Mona McSharry rounding out the rostrum in 30.66.

Pilato’s effort erased her earlier 30.13 season-best notched at April’s Italian Championships.

Russia’s Olympic medalist Yuliya Efimova settled for 4th place in 30.79, with Haughey, contemporary off her 100m free silver medal, delivering a strong efficiency of 30.81 for Fifth place within the race.

Notable was the truth that Russian Nika Godun received the B-Final in a time of 30.79, which might have tied Efimova for 4th within the A-Final contest.

MEN’S 100 BREAST – FINAL

• World Record – 56.88, Adam Peaty (GBR), 2019
• World Junior Record – 58.67, Shin Ohashi (JPN), 2026
• European Record – 56.88, Adam Peaty (GBR), 2019
• European Junior Record – 59.01, Nicolo Martinenghi (ITA), 2017
• Italian Record – 58.26, Nicolo Martinenghi, 2022
• Meet Record – 58.29, Nicolo Martinenghi, 2021

GOLD – Ivan Kozhakin (RUS), 59.49
SILVER  – Melvin Imoudu (GER), 59.78
BRONZE – Nicolo Martinenghi (ITA), 59.79

Ivan Kozhakin of Russia, competing as a impartial athlete at this competitors, held on to his prime seed to see by this 100m breaststroke occasion to gold.

28-year-old Kozhakin stopped the clock at 59.49, dropping vital day off his morning mark of 59.75.

German Melvin Imoudu upgraded himself from the 4th seed to a silver medal, clocking 59.78, simply .01 forward of Italian nationwide document holder and reignig Olympic champion Nicolo Martinenghi, who hit 59.79 for bronze.

As for Kozhakin, the Russian is experiencing a profession resurgence of types, delivering his quickest instances now as a 28-year-old.

The veteran produced his first-ever 100m breast beneath the 59-second barrier simply this previous April (58.91) and did it once more in June (58.93). Kozhakin claimed the highest seed within the 50m breast yesterday morning, however settled for bronze within the closing.

WOMEN’S 800 FREE – FASTEST HEAT

• World Record – 8:04.12, Katie Ledecky (USA), 2025
• World Junior Record – 8:11.00, Katie Ledecky (USA), 2014
• European Record – 8:12.81, Simona Quadarella (ITA), 2025
• European Junior Record – 8:21.91, Merve Tuncel (TUR), 2021
• Italian Record – 8:12.81, Simona Quadarella, 2025
• Meet Record – 8:18.95, Simona Quadarella (ITA), 2024

GOLD – Simona Quadarella (ITA), 8:21.03
SILVER  – Sarah Dumont (BEL), 8:30.44
BRONZE – Antonietta Cesarano (ITA), 8:33.02

Italian nationwide document holder Simona Quadarella was the definitive victor of the ladies’s 800m free, posting a successful results of 8:21.03 this night.

That was simply exterior her season-best of 8:20.54, put up on the Mare Nostrum Tour to at present rank Sixth on the planet with the European Championships on the horizon.

It was Belgium’s Sarah Dumont who secured the silver medal place in 8:30.44, adopted by Quadarella’s countrywoman Antonietta Cesarano, who clinched bronze in 8:33.02.

MEN’S 800 FREE – FASTEST HEAT

• World Record – 7:32.12, Zhang Lin (CHN), 2009
• World Junior Record – 7:43.37, Lorenzo Galossi (ITA), 2022
• European Record – 7:37.94, Johannes Liebmann (GER), 2026
• European Junior Record – 7:43.37, Lorenzo Galossi (ITA), 2022
• Italian Record – 7:39.27, Gregorio Paltrinieri, 2019
• Meet Record – 7:40.22, Gregorio Paltrinieri, 2020

GOLD – Vasileios Kakoulakis (GRE), 7:52.56
SILVER  – Guilherme Costa (BRA), 7:53.20
BRONZE – Daniel Wiffen (IRL), 7:53.76

The closing occasion of the night noticed Greek standout Vasileios Kakoulakis nab the gold, producing a mark of seven:52.56 because the quickest males’s 800m freestyler.

That held off Brazilian Guilherme Costa , who settled for silver in 7:53.30, as Irish Olympic champion Daniel Wiffen additionally landed on the rostrum in 7:53.76, adequate for bronze.