This is the sixth medal of the blue expedition
Dario Verani triumphing today in the waters of Lupa Lake in Budapest is the third Italian in history to have graduated world champion in the 25 kilometers of open water swimming. Previously, Valerio Cleri had succeeded in 2009 in Rome and Simone Ruffini in 2015 in Kazan.
Verani enters the legend of long distance swimming by winning the open water marathon. The twenty-seven year old from Cecina trained by Fabrizio Antonelli for the Army, who last year here won the European bronze in the 5 km won by his training partner Gregorio Paltrineiri, stands out as a champion. It is the sixth medal of the blue expedition (2 golds, 2 silvers and 2 bronzes) which beats as a number the historical loot of Fukuoka 2001 where there were, however, three golds (3 golds and 2 bronzes), and that of Budapest 2017 always with 5 medals without gold though. In the beginning of the 25km it was Sergio Chiarantini. The Roman born in 1968 won a silver in the first edition of the water marathon which took place in Perth in 1991.
Then Valerio Cleri who dominated the waves in front of the Ostia course in the 2009 world championships. Martina Grmaldi was the first woman to win at the Olympic port of Barcelona in 2013, while the last gold was that on the Kazanka river by Simone Ruffini, which preceded the teammate Matteo Furlan third in the race today. In Gwangju the last metal with Andrea Occhipini who conquered a bronze mixed of heroism and stoicism after a hurricane from torrential rains passed in Yeosu.
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