Thursday, August 14, 2008

Italy's Federica Pellegrini Wins Gold in Women's 200 Freestyle with Record Time

The ANNOTICO Report

 

Italy's Federica Pellegrini  won Italy's Fourth Gold, with Italy garnering the seventh highest number of Medals at 11.

 

Oh yes, there seems to be a lot of chatter at Beijing 2008 about a guy named Michael Phelps. Anybody heard????

 

Italy's Federica Pellegrini won the women's 200 freestyle with a world-best time of 1:54.82, edging Slovenia's Sara Isakovic by 0.15 second. China's Pang Jiaying took the bronze. The 20-year-old Pellegrini added to a silver in Athens 2004, when she became the youngest Italian to win an Olympic medal.

``What came into my mind was `finally, finally,'' Pellegrini said after securing Italy's fourth gold in Beijing. ``I have been expecting to win for the last four years.''

The 400m free gold medal has eluded the 20-year-old Pellegrini, who also set a new world record in the heats but finished a disappointing fourth in the 400m Finals to the lesser-known Briton Rebecca Adlington.

Italy has 11 TOTAL Medals, the Seventh Most, including 4 Golds,  as of Aug 13, 2008 US PST                                                                                       (1) USA-30  (2) China -29 (3) Australia- 15 (4) Korea -13 (4) France -13 (6) Russia -12 (7) Italy -11

Archery

Men's Team

 S

DI BUO' Ilario, GALIAZZO Marco, NESPOLI Mauro

Cycling - Road

Men's Road Race

 S

REBELLIN Davide

 

Women's Road Race

 B

GUDERZO Tatiana

Fencing

Men's Individual Foil

 B

SANZO Salvatore

 

Women's Individual Foil

 G

VEZZALI Maria Valentina

 

 

 B

GRANBASSI Margherita

 

Men's Individual Epee

 G

TAGLIARIOL Matteo

Judo

Women -57 kg

 G

QUINTAVALLE Giulia

Shooting

Men's Trap

 S

PELLIELO Giovanni

 

Men's Double Trap

 S

D ANIELLO Francesco

Swimming

Women's 200m Freestyle

 G

PELLEGRINI Federica

 

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