Emanuele Nicolini
Sammarinese swimmer
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Emanuele Nicolini (born April 20, 1984) is a Sammarinese swimmer, who specialized in freestyle events.[1] He holds numerous national records in the 200 and 400 m freestyle, and had represented his nation San Marino in two editions of the Olympic Games (2004 and 2008).
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Emanuele Nicolini |
| National team | San Marino |
| Born | 20 April 1984 Borgo Maggiore, San Marino |
| Height | 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in) |
| Weight | 70 kg (154 lb) |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Swimming |
| Strokes | Freestyle |
Nicolini made his first Sammarinese team at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, where he competed in the men's 400 m freestyle. Swimming in heat one, he came home strongly at the final stretch to post a third-place time and forty-second overall in 4:08.28, just seven seconds behind the winner Miguel Mendoza of the Philippines.[2][3]
At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Nicolini swam the first heat of the 200 m freestyle, against Georgia's Irakli Revishvili and Macedonia's Mihajlo Ristovski. He closed out a small field to last place with the slowest prelims time of 1:59.47, finishing two seconds behind the winner Ristovski. Nicolini, however, failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed fifty-seventh in the overall rankings.[4]
