Alessandro Miressi

Alessandro Miressi
Personal information
National teamItaly
Born (1998-10-02) 2 October 1998 (age 25)
Turin, Italy
Height2.02 m (6 ft 8 in)
Weight99 kg (218 lb)
Sport
SportSwimming
StrokesFreestyle
ClubFiamme Oro
CoachAntonio Satta
Medal record
Men's swimming
Representing  Italy
Senior level
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
Olympic Games 0 1 1
World Championships (LC) 1 1 1
World Championships (SC) 5 2 3
European Championships (LC) 3 2 6
European Championships (SC) 0 6 1
European Games 0 2 0
Universiade 0 1 0
Mediterranean Games 0 1 0
Total 9 16 12
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 2020 Tokyo 4×100 m freestyle
Bronze medal – third place 2020 Tokyo 4×100 m medley
World Championships (LC)
Gold medal – first place 2022 Budapest 4×100 m medley
Silver medal – second place 2023 Fukuoka 4×100 m freestyle
Bronze medal – third place 2022 Budapest 4×100 m freestyle
World Championships (SC)
Gold medal – first place 2021 Abu Dhabi 100 m freestyle
Gold medal – first place 2021 Abu Dhabi 4×50 m freestyle
Gold medal – first place 2021 Abu Dhabi 4×100 m medley
Gold medal – first place 2022 Melbourne 4×100 m freestyle
Gold medal – first place 2022 Melbourne 4×50 m medley
Silver medal – second place 2021 Abu Dhabi 4×100 m freestyle
Silver medal – second place 2022 Melbourne 4×50 m freestyle
Bronze medal – third place 2018 Hangzhou 4×50 m freestyle
Bronze medal – third place 2022 Melbourne 100 metre freestyle
Bronze medal – third place 2022 Melbourne 4×100 m medley
European Championships (LC)
Gold medal – first place 2018 Glasgow 100 m freestyle
Gold medal – first place 2022 Rome 4×100 m freestyle
Gold medal – first place 2022 Rome 4×100 m medley
Silver medal – second place 2018 Glasgow 4×100 m freestyle
Silver medal – second place 2020 Budapest 100 m freestyle
Bronze medal – third place 2018 Glasgow 4×100 m mixed medley
Bronze medal – third place 2020 Budapest 4×100 m freestyle
Bronze medal – third place 2020 Budapest 4×100 m mixed medley
Bronze medal – third place 2020 Budapest 4×100 m mixed freestyle
Bronze medal – third place 2020 Budapest 4×100 m medley
Bronze medal – third place 2022 Rome 100 m freestyle
European Championships (SC)
Silver medal – second place 2017 Copenhagen 4×50 m freestyle
Silver medal – second place 2017 Copenhagen 4×50 m medley
Silver medal – second place 2019 Glasgow 100 m freestyle
Silver medal – second place 2021 Kazan 100 m freestyle
Silver medal – second place 2021 Kazan 4x50 m freestyle
Silver medal – second place 2021 Kazan 4x50 m mixed freestyle
Bronze medal – third place 2019 Glasgow 4×50 m freestyle
European Games
Silver medal – second place 2015 Baku 100 m freestyle
Silver medal – second place 2015 Baku 4×100 m freestyle
Universiade
Silver medal – second place 2017 Taipei 4×100 m freestyle
Mediterranean Games
Silver medal – second place 2018 Tarragona 100 m freestyle
Junior level
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
World Junior Championships 0 0 1
European Junior Championships 3 1 1
Total 3 1 2
World Junior Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2015 Singapore 4×100 m freestyle
European Junior Championships
Gold medal – first place 2016 Hódmezővásárhely 100 m freestyle
Gold medal – first place 2016 Hódmezővásárhely 4×100 m medley
Gold medal – first place 2016 Hódmezővásárhely 4×100 m mixed medley
Silver medal – second place 2016 Hódmezővásárhely 4×100 m freestyle
Bronze medal – third place 2016 Hódmezővásárhely 4×100 m mixed freestyle

Alessandro Miressi (born 2 October 1998) is an Italian swimmer. He is a world record holder in the short course 4×100 metre freestyle relay and an Italian record holder in the long course and short course 100 metre freestyle. In the long course 100 metre freestyle, he was 2018 European champion, 2020 European Championships silver medalist, and 2022 European Championships bronze medalist. In the short course 100 metre freestyle, he was 2021 World champion, 2019 and 2021 European Championships silver medalist, and 2022 World Championships bronze medalist.

Career

In 2018, Miressi competed in the men's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay event at the European Championships, winning the silver medal. He then won a gold in the 100 metre freestyle, followed by a bronze in the mixed 4 × 100 metre medley relay. He is the holder of the Italian record in the 100 m freestyle, with 47.45 (2021). He competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics, in Men's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay, winning a silver medal, the Men's 4 × 100 metre medley relay, winning a bronze medal, and the 100 metre freestyle, where he place sixth.

2021 World Short Course Championships

Day one of the 2021 World Short Course Championships, contested in December in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Miressi led-off the 4×100 metre freestyle relay with a 46.12 in the final, contributing to a new Italian record time of 3:03.61 and a silver medal-win. The second day, he helped achieve a fifth-place finish in the 4×50 metre mixed freestyle relay, splitting a 21.18 for the second leg of the relay to contribute to the final time of 1:30.02. Anchoring the 4×50 metre freestyle relay in the final to a finish in 1:23.61 with a split time of 20.61, he helped finish 0.14 seconds ahead of the second-fastest relay team and win the gold medal in the event on day four. On the sixth and final evening, he won his first gold medal of the session in the 100 metre freestyle, winning the event with an Italian record time of 45.57, which broke the Italian record of 45.58 seconds he set in the semifinals of the event the day before. He won his second and final gold medal of the session in the 4×100 metre medley relay, anchoring the finals relay to a Championships record and Italian record time of 3:19.76 in 45.05 seconds.

2022 World Championships

At the 2022 World Aquatics Championships, with swimming competition held in June at Danube Arena in Budapest, Hungary, Miressi won a bronze medal as part of the 4×100 metre freestyle relay in a time of 3:10.95. Swimming a time of 47.48 seconds for the freestyle leg of the 4×100 metre medley relay in the final, he helped tie the European record and set a new Italian record with a finals relay time of 3:27.51 to win the gold medal.

2022 European Championships

On the second day of the 2022 European Aquatics Championships, held in Rome in August, Miressi ranked second in the preliminaries of the 100 metre freestyle, advancing to the semifinals with a time of 47.60 seconds. For the semifinals, he swam a 47.96 and qualified for the final ranking third behind David Popovici of Romania and Kristóf Milák of Hungary. Finishing third in the final behind the same duo as in the semifinals, Miressi won the bronze medal with a time of 47.63 seconds. The following day, day four, he led-off the 4×100 metre freestyle relay in the final with a 47.76, contributing to a gold medal-winning time of 3:10.50. Day five, he split a 47.38 for the second leg of the 4×100 metre mixed freestyle relay in the final to help place fourth with a time of 3:23.62, which was 0.22 seconds behind the bronze medal-winning team from Sweden.

In the preliminaries of the 50 metre freestyle on day six, Miressi was the third-fastest Italian with a time of 22.26 seconds, ranked eighteenth, and did not advance to the semifinals. The following day, he swam the 100 metre freestyle portion of the 4×100 metre medley relay in 47.17 seconds in the final, helping win the gold medal with a new Championships record time of 3:28.46.

2022 Swimming World Cup

At the stop of the 2022 FINA Swimming World Cup circuit held in Berlin, Germany, Miressi competed in the 50 metre freestyle, placing twenty-fourth with a time of 21.94 seconds, and the 100 metre freestyle, where he placed fifth in the final with a time of 47.00 seconds, which was 1.12 seconds slower than gold medalist Kyle Chalmers of Australia.

2022 World Short Course Championships

Day one in Melbourne, Australia for the 2022 World Short Course Championships in December, Miressi led-off the 4×100 metre freestyle relay in the preliminaries with a time of 46.08 seconds to contribute to a first-ranked time of 3:04.46 heading into the final. Later in the day, he helped set a new word record in the event with a 3:02.75 to win the gold medal, contributing a lead-off time of 46.15 seconds to the final mark. In the morning of day three, he swam the first 50 metre portion of the 4×50 metre freestyle relay in 21.26 seconds, helping achieve a third-rank time of 1:24.13 and qualify for the final. For the final of the 100 metre freestyle in the evening session, he won the bronze medal with a personal best time of 45.57 seconds that tied his Italian record in the event. Later in the session, he swam the lead-off leg of the 4×50 metre freestyle relay in 21.22 to contribute to the silver medal-winning time of 1:23.48.

For the preliminaries of the 50 metre freestyle on the fourth morning, Miressi achieved a personal best time of 21.17 seconds, qualifying for the semifinals tied in rank for twelfth overall. In the evening semifinals, he lowered his personal best time to a 21.13, ranked thirteenth, and did not qualify for the final. The following day, in the morning preliminaries, he contributed 20.84 seconds to the time of 1:32.31 for the 4×50 metre medley relay on the freestyle leg of the relay, helping advance the relay to the final ranked first. In the evening, he was substituted out and Leonardo Deplano substituted in on the finals relay, and when the finals relay placed first in a time of 1:29.72 he and the other prelims and finals relay members won the gold medal for their efforts. On the final day, he anchored the 4×100 metre medley relay in the final with a time of 45.56 seconds to help set a new European record with a time of 3:19.06.

2023

At the 2023 Italian National Spring Championships in April in Riccione, Miressi won the silver medal in the 50 metre freestyle on day one with a time of 22.12 seconds. In the final of the 100 metre freestyle on the third evening, he won the gold medal with a time of 48.61 seconds. Later in the evening, he won a gold medal in the 4×100 metre medley relay, splitting a 48.37 for the freestyle leg to help win in a final time of 3:34.68 with GS Fiamme Oro relay teammate Simone Stefani (backstroke), Simone Cerasuolo (breaststroke), and Thomas Ceccon (butterfly). On the fifth and final day, his lead-off leg of the 4×100 metre freestyle relay, a time of 48.37 seconds, contributed to a gold medal-win in an Italian club record time of 3:14.60 with GS Fiamme Oro relay teammates Manuel Frigo, Marco Orsi, and Thomas Ceccon.

International championships (50 m)

Meet 50 freestyle 100 freestyle 200 freestyle 4×100 freestyle 4×200 freestyle 4×100 medley 4×100 mixed freestyle 4×100 mixed medley
Junior level
EG 2015 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 41st 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 5th 4th 4th 4th
WJC 2015 5th 20th 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 10th 6th
EJC 2016 15th 1st place, gold medalist(s) 44th 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 6th 1st place, gold medalist(s) 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s)
Senior level
WC 2017 DSQ 11th 5th
WUG 2017 11th 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 4th
MG 2018 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 7th 7th
EC 2018 12th 1st place, gold medalist(s) 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 4th 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
WC 2019 9th 4th 8th
EC 2020 8th 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
OG 2020 6th 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
WC 2022 8th 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s) 7th
EC 2022 18th 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s) 4th

International championships (25 m)

Meet 50 freestyle 100 freestyle 200 freestyle 4×50 freestyle 4×100 freestyle 4×50 medley 4×100 medley 4×50 mixed freestyle
EC 2017 10th (h) 9th 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 5th
WC 2018 10th 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 4th 9th
EC 2019 6th 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 4th 5th
EC 2021 14th (h) 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
WC 2021 1st place, gold medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s) 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s) 5th
WC 2022 13th 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s) 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
a Miressi swam only in the preliminaries.

Personal best times

Long course metres (50 m pool)

Event Time Meet Location Date Notes Ref
50 m freestyle 21.86 sf 2020 European Aquatics Championships Budapest, Hungary 22 May 2021
100 m freestyle 47.45 2020 European Aquatics Championships Budapest, Hungary 19 May 2021 NR
Legend: NRItalian record;
Records not set in finals: h – heat; sf – semifinal; r – relay 1st leg; rh – relay heat 1st leg; b – B final; – en route to final mark; tt – time trial

Short course metres (25 m pool)

Event Time Meet Location Date Notes Ref
50 m freestyle 21.13 sf 2022 World Short Course Championships Melbourne, Australia 16 December 2022
100 m freestyle 45.57 2021 World Short Course Championships
2022 World Short Course Championships
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Melbourne, Australia
21 December 2021
15 December 2022
NR
= NR

Legend: NRItalian record;
Records not set in finals: h – heat; sf – semifinal; r – relay 1st leg; rh – relay heat 1st leg; b – B final; – en route to final mark; tt – time trial

World records

Short course metres (25 m pool)

No. Event Time Meet Location Date Status Ref
1 4×100 m freestyle 3:02.75 2022 World Short Course Championships Melbourne, Australia 13 December 2022 Current

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