Benedetta Pilato, tears of joy after the silver medal at the World Championships at the age of 14 (photo Ansa)
GWANGJU – Benedetta Pilato, at the age of 14, won the silver medal in the 50 breaststroke at the World Swimming Championships in South Korea and entered the history of the Italian national team. Benedetta Pilato, at 14 and 6 months, became the youngest Italian to make her debut at a World Cup, breaking Federica Pellegrini's record of earliness .
Sky Sport, on its website, traces the beginnings of the new phenomenon of Italian swimming. The blue-eyed frog specialist was born in Taranto on January 19, 2005 and at the age of 14 she won two Italian records in the 50 frogs and, above all, world silver. Benedetta trains in the Solaris pool of Pulsano, in the province of Taranto, and attends the scientific high school.
She swims from the age of two and her trainer Vito D'Onghia is perhaps the person who knows her best after her parents: she took her in her arms when she was 4 and followed her in all her competitive growth . In June at the Sette Colli Benedetta Trophy she set the absolute Italian record in the 50 frogs (30 "13) beaten by herself in this World Cup.
On 3 July, in his first appearance in the Kazan European Youth swimming championships 2019, Pilate won the gold medal in the 50 frogs , setting the championship record with 30 "16. Two days later he won the silver medal in the 4 × 100 mixed women's relay (4'05 ″ 66).
The race, Benedetta Pilato, surrendered only to Lilly King.
The 14-year-old blue Benedetta Pilato won silver in the 50 frogs at the Gwanju swimming world championships. In the 50-meter female frog at the World Swimming Championships in South Korea, the gold went to the US Lilly King in 29.84 which preceded Benedetta Pilato, silver in 30 seconds, and the Russian Yulya Efimova. Fifth the other blue Martina Carraro who swam in 30 "49.
The tears of joy of Pilate after the World Cup at 14.
"Help, I'm upset: I can't believe it." Benedetta Pilato at the age of 14 won the silver medal at the World Swimming Championships and tears her joy in tears: "I am very happy I want to live this moment I do not believe – said the swimmer from Taranto – Seeing me with the third time the idea he touched me, but I didn't think so. It's great to compete with more experienced people, from whom I only have to learn. I saw the light on the block and they were two dots, King told me 'it's all ok'. I was feeling sick, I'm upset. Help! ”(Sources Sky Sport and Ansa).
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