As the countdown begins for the World Short Course Swimming Championships in Hangzhou, China, from 11th to 16th December, arena has recruited two rising stars of Italian swimming to its team of champions: Alessandro Miressi, European 100m freestyle champion and Italian record holder (47.92), and Margherita Panziera, European 200m backstroke champion and Italian record holder (2:06.18). The athletes have signed three-year technical sponsorship contracts, which afford them arena’s best-in-class technical equipment and trademark brand support in their training and competition preparations.
Alessandro Miressi (GS Fiamme Oro [State Police Sports Group] / CN Turin), born in 1998 in Turin, is one of the new faces of Italian swimming.
After his first call-up as a 16-year-old to the national youth team for the Comen Cup in Netanya 2014, he went on the following year to win two silver medals at the European Games in Baku (100m freestyle, 4x100m freestyle relay). Later that year at Singapore’s World Junior Championships he picked up a 4x100m freestyle relay bronze along with fifth place in the individual 100m freestyle, despite being a year younger than most of his opponents. At the 2016 European Junior Championships in Hodmezovasarhely (Hungary), he won…
