The first swimming medal arrives! Martinenghi bronze in the 100 breaststroke

TOKYO 2020
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The first swimming medal at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games is bronze, and Nicolò Martinenghi signs it! At the Tokyo Aquatics Centre, the Italian (photo Ferraro - GMT Sport) placed third in the 100 breaststroke final with 58"33 behind the Olympic champion, the British Adam Peaty, gold in 57"37 and the Dutch Arno Kamminga (58"00).
Twenty-one years after Sydney 2000, when Domenico Fioravanti and Davide Rummolo took two-thirds of the podium (first and third), the Italian breaststroke team is back on the five-ring podium.