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BULLETINS & LEN PRESS RELEASES
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After the huge success of the first edition, LEN – the European League of
Swimming, has chosen to go back to Torino for the Arena European Diving
Championships of 2011. For the second time, the event will be held separately
from the swimming euro championships, as it was already in 2009, and will take
place from the 8th to the 11th of March.
The Monumentale Diving Stadium is ready to host the competition that will
feature all the best European athletes, including Giorgio Cagnotto’s Team Italy
led by Tania Cagnotto, 3mt sync silver medalist and 3 mt bronze medalist at the
world champs of Rome 2009, and defending her 2009 European 1mt and 3mt sync
titles. Also on the Azzurri's team are Francesca Dallapé 3mt sync Euro gold
medalist, Noemi Batki platform silver medalist in Budapest 2010, Michele
Benedetti, Maria, Nicola and
Tommaso Marconi, Valentina Marocchi, Cristopher Sacchin, Brenda Spaziani and
Maicol Verzotto.
Team Italy will try to go back-to-back on their record 3 gold (Tania Cagnotto
1mt, 3mt and sync with Francesca Dallapé) 2 silver (Cristopher Sacchin and Maria
Marconi, 1mt) and 2 bronze (Michele Benedetti 3mt, and Nicola and Tommaso
Marconi, sync) medals won in the 2009 edition when Italy finished in second
place after Russia.
Great expectations also for defending European champions Illya Kvasha (1 mt and
3 mt sync) and Oleksiy Prygorov (3 mt sync) from Ukraine, German Sasha Klein
(platform), Patrick Hausding (3 mt), Christin Steuer (individual and synchro,
platform) and Nora Subschinski (sync, platform) and Russian Nadesda Bazhina (3
mt.)
Big news in this upcoming 2011 edition is the introduction of a Team Event, a
test performance scheduled on the opening day, March 8. The Team Event is not
competitive and will feature synchro dives with a male and a female diver from
3mt and 10mt. Being a test event, the Team Event will not be part of the
European Championships but it is being considered for introduction at the
Olympic games.
The Italian Swimming Federation of Piemonte and Valle d’Aosta is thankful to LEN
and very excited to have been awarded the Euro Champs for the second time.
Torino was the first capital of united Italy in 1861 and the Arena European
Diving Championships have been included in a series of events that will take
place from March through November to celebrate the 150th birthday of Italy.
As it was in 2009, admission to all competitions will be free upon registration
and booking (more details to be published on this website.)
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13/03/2011 - Results Book