Alessia Filippi
Alessia Filippi ( born June 23, 1987 in Rome ) is an Italian swimmer.
Career
Your strengths are the long layers and back routes. She lives and trains in Rome. In 2005 she was at the swimming world championships in five of the 200 m backstroke distance. In the European Swimming Championships 2004 in Madrid, Filippi had to settle for third on the 400 m medley with the seventh place, before his international breakthrough at the European Swimming Championships in 2006 and 2008 and over this distance each won the title. 2008 in Eindhoven, they could additionally secure the European title on the 800 m freestyle.
In the Italian Championships 2008, on 16 July 2008, she set a new European record over the 1500m freestyle and improved the Flavia Rigamonti floated, a year -old record by not less than 2.54 seconds. 16 August 2008 Filippi won the silver medal in the 800 m freestyle at the Olympic Games in Beijing.
With the World Swimming Championships 2009 in Rome, she then won on home soil their first world title over 1,500 m freestyle, on the 800 m freestyle she finished third.