Italy at the 2025 World Aquatics Championships

The following is the list of competitors in the Championships.^[1]

Men

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Athlete	Event	Preliminaries		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Filippo Pelati	Solo technical routine	—N/a		228.0800	6
	Solo free routine	—N/a		213.9850

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Women

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Athlete	Event	Preliminaries		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Enrica Piccoli	Solo technical routine	237.0000	8 Q	240.2850	7
	Solo free routine	225.7726	6 Q	232.6551	6
Enrica Piccoli Lucrezia Ruggiero	Duet technical routine	279.0533	7 Q	285.0441	6
	Duet free routine	266.9571	3 Q	278.7137

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Athlete	Event	Preliminaries		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Filippo Pelati Lucrezia Ruggiero	Duet technical routine	—N/a		228.0275
	Duet free routine	—N/a		315.9598	4
Valentina Bisi Beatrice Esegio Marta Iacoacci Alessia Macchi Sofia Mastroianni Susanna Pedotti Sophie Tabbiani Giulia Vernice	Team technical routine	278.0758	4 Q	282.3191	5
	Team free routine	304.5067	6 Q	313.4337	5
Beatrice Andina Marta Iacoacci Alessia Macchi Giorgia Lucia Macino Sofia Mastroianni Susanna Pedotti Sophie Tabbiani Giulia Vernice	Team acrobatic routine	215.7280	3	217.5667	4

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Women

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Athlete	Event	Preliminaries		Semi-finals		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Elena Bertocchi	1 m springboard	228.60	20	—N/a	Did not advance
Chiara Pellacani		251.10	8 Q	—N/a		270.80
Chiara Pellacani	3 m springboard	302.05	6 Q	310.80	4 Q	323.20
Elisa Pizzini		277.70	15 Q	283.80	9 Q	280.80	10
Chiara Pellacani Elisa Pizzini	3 m synchronized springboard	262.56	5 Q	—N/a		279.27	5
Sarah Jodoin di Maria	10 m platform	267.85	18 Q	292.30	11 Q	317.90	9

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Athlete	Event	Final
		Points	Rank
Chiara Pellacani Matteo Santoro	3 m synchronized springboard	308.13
Riccardo Giovannini Sarah Jodoin di Maria	10 m synchronized platform	280.14	7
Riccardo Giovannini Sarah Jodoin di Maria Chiara Pellacani Matteo Santoro	Team	386.85	6

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Italy entered 3 high divers.

Men

Gregorio Paltrinieri was expected to contend for a medal.^[2]

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Athlete	Event	Heats		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Matteo Diodato	Men's 3 km knockout sprints	17:00.9	1 Q	11:34.7	16	Did not advance
Andrea Filadelli	Men's 10 km	—N/a	2:00:43.7	7
Marcello Guidi	Men's 5 km	—N/a	57:32.3	4
Gregorio Paltrinieri	Men's 3 km knockout sprints	17:03.9	3 Q	11:30.4	5 Q	5:58.9	4
	Men's 5 km	—N/a	57:29.3
	Men's 10 km	—N/a	1:59:59.2

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Women

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Athlete	Event	Heats		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Antonietta Cesarano	Women's 3 km knockout sprints	18:36.0	6 Q	12:18.1	13	Did not advance
Giulia Gabbrielleschi	Women's 5 km	—N/a	1:03:40.0	10
Barbara Pozzobon	Women's 10 km	—N/a	2:09:30.3	10
Ginevra Taddeucci	Women's 3 km knockout sprints	18:09.7	1 Q	12:10.0	3 Q	6:21.9
	Women's 5 km	—N/a	1:02:02.3
	Women's 10 km	—N/a	2:07:55.7

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Mixed

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Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Barbara Pozzobon Ginevra Taddeucci Marcello Guidi Gregorio Paltrinieri	Team relay	1:09:15.4

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Italy entered 33 swimmers,^[3] including experienced swimmers such as Thomas Ceccon, Nicolò Martinenghi and Simona Quadarella and younger swimmers such as Carlos D’Ambrosio, Sara Curtis, and 17-year-old Bianca Nannucci.^[2]

Men

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Athlete	Event	Heat		Semi-final		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Christian Bacico	50 m backstroke	24.89	15 Q	24.90	15	Did not advance
	100 m backstroke	52.72	5 Q	52.72	10	Did not advance
	200 m backstroke	1:56.79	11 Q	1:56.02	10	Did not advance
Francesco Burdisso	100 m butterfly	51.59	17	Did not advance
	200 m butterfly	1:56.08	13 Q	1:54.87	7 Q	1:55.27	8
Thomas Ceccon	50 m backstroke	Did not start		Did not advance
	100 m backstroke	53.65	13 Q	52.35	4 Q	51.90
	200 m backstroke	1:57.15	17	Did not advance
	50 m butterfly	23.06	8 Q	22.84	6 Q	22.67 NR
	100 m butterfly	51.36	11 Q	50.42 NR	5 Q	51.12	8
Simone Cerasuolo	50 m breaststroke	26.42	1 Q	26.64	2 Q	26.54
Carlos D'Ambrosio	100 m freestyle	48.67	26	Did not advance
	200 m freestyle	1:46.67	16 Q	1:45.23 NR	5 Q	1:45.27	6
Luca de Tullio	800 m freestyle	7:53.04	13	—N/a	Did not advance
Marco de Tullio	400 m freestyle	3:45.88	8 Q	—N/a	3:44.92	6
Leonardo Deplano	50 m freestyle	21.62	5 Q	21.59	5 Q	21.52	4
Manuel Frigo	100 m freestyle	48.08	12 Q	48.18	15	Did not advance
Christian Mantegazza	200 m breaststroke	2:11.10	13 Q	2:10.58	12	Did not advance
Nicolò Martinenghi	50 m breaststroke	26.90	9 Q	27.03	13	Did not advance
	100 m breaststroke	58.84	3 Q	58.62	2 Q	58.58
	200 m breaststroke	Did not start		Did not advance
Massimiliano Matteazzi	200 m individual medley	2:00.51	22	Did not advance
Filippo Megli	200 m freestyle	1:46.39	13 Q	1:46.49	14	Did not advance
Alberto Razzetti	200 m butterfly	1:54.54	4 Q	1:54.47	6 Q	1:54.85	6
	200 m individual medley	1:58.14	7 Q	1:57.53	10	Did not advance
	400 m individual medley	4:14.52	12	—N/a	Did not advance
Ludovico Viberti	100 m breaststroke	59.56	9 Q	58.89	3 Q	59.08	5
Lorenzo Zazzeri	50 m freestyle	21.87	14 Q	21.87	15	Did not advance
Carlos D'Ambrosio Thomas Ceccon Lorenzo Zazzeri Manuel Frigo Leonardo Deplano (heats)	4 × 100 m freestyle relay	3:12.02	3 Q	—N/a	3:09.58 NR
Carlos D’Ambrosio Filippo Megli Marco De Tullio Stefano Di Cola	4 × 200 m freestyle relay	7:05.17	4 Q	—N/a	7:05.54	7
Thomas Ceccon Nicolò Martinenghi Federico Burdisso Carlos D'Ambrosio Christian Bacico (heats) Ludovico Viberti (heats) Manuel Frigo (heats)	4 × 100 m medley relay	3:30.40	3 Q	—N/a	3:28.72	4

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Women

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Athlete	Event	Heat		Semi-final		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Lisa Angiolini	100 m breaststroke	1:06.59	9 Q	1:06.40	12	Did not advance
	200 m breaststroke	2:26.98	18	Did not advance
Anita Bottazzo	50 m breaststroke	30.42	7 Q	30.31	7 Q	30.21	4
	100 m breaststroke	1:06.83	10 Q	1:05.61	2 Q	1:06.06	6
Costanza Cocconcelli	100 m butterfly	58.31	16 Q	57.94	15	Did not advance
Sara Curtis	50 m freestyle	24.41 NR	3 Q	24.48	9	Did not advance
	100 m freestyle	53.53	2 Q	53.39	7 Q	53.41	8
Silvia di Pietro	50 m freestyle	Did not start		Did not advance
	50 m butterfly	25.49 NR	3 Q	25.58	6 Q	25.64	7
Francesca Fangio	200 m breaststroke	2:27.01	19	Did not advance
Sara Franceschi	200 m individual medley	2:12.91	21	Did not advance
	400 m individual medley	4:50.23	17	—N/a	Did not advance
Anita Gastaldi	100 m backstroke	1:01.20	21	Did not advance
	200 m individual medley	2:13.07	22	Did not advance
Emma Virginia Menicucci	100 m freestyle	54.45	18	Did not advance
Bianca Nannucci	200 m freestyle	1:59.24	25	Did not advance
Benedetta Pilato	50 m breaststroke	30.46	8 Q	30.20	3 Q	30.14
Simona Quadarella	800 m freestyle	8:20.47	5 Q	—N/a	8:12.81 ER	4
	1500 m freestyle	15:47.43	3 Q	—N/a	15:31.79 ER
Sara Curtis Chiara Tarantino Sofia Morini Emma Virginia Menicucci	4 × 100 m freestyle relay	3:36.67	7 Q	—N/a	3:35.18 NR	7
Anna Chiara Mascolo Bianca Nannucci Matilde Biagiotti Emma Virginia Menicucci Sofia Morini (heats)	4 × 200 m freestyle relay	7:57.02	7 Q	—N/a	7:54.16	7
Anita Gastaldi Lisa Angiolini Costanza Cocconcelli Emma Virginia Menicucci	4 × 100 m medley relay	4:00.12	10	—N/a	Did not advance

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Mixed

Summary

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Team	Event	Group stage				Playoff	Quarterfinal	Semi-final	Final / BM
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Italy	Men's tournament	Romania W 17–5	Serbia W 17–16 (PSO)	South Africa W 28–4	1 Q	Bye	Greece L 11–17	Montenegro L 8–12	United States W 9–8	7
Italy	Women's tournament	New Zealand W 14–9	Australia L 15–19	Singapore W 32–5	2 P/off	China W 13–11	Hungary L 9–12	Netherlands L 13–16	Japan W 20–15	7

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Men's tournament

Main article: Water polo at the 2025 World Aquatics Championships – Men's tournament

Team roster

The following is the Italian roster.^[4][5]

Head coach: Sandro Campagna

• 1 Gianmarco Nicosia GK
• 2 Francesco Di Fulvio FP
• 3 Luca Damonte FP
• 4 Giacomo Cannella FP
• 5 Filippo Ferrero FP
• 6 Tommaso Gianazza FP
• 7 Mario del Basso FP
• 8 Francesco Condemi FP
• 9 Nicholas Presciutti FP
• 10 Lorenzo Bruni FP
• 11 Edoardo Di Somma FP
• 12 Alessandro Velotto FP
• 13 Tommaso Baggi Necchi GK
• 14 Francesco Lorenzo Cassia FP
• 15 Matteo Iocchi Gratta FP

Group play

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Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	PSW	PSL	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Italy	3	2	1	0	0	58	22	+36	8	Quarterfinals
2	Serbia	3	2	0	1	0	59	25	+34	7	Playoffs
3	Romania	3	1	0	0	2	38	41	−3	3
4	South Africa	3	0	0	0	3	12	79	−67	0	13–16th place semifinals

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Source: Omegatiming
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head number of goals scored; 5) Goal difference.

12 July 2025 20:45	Report	Romania	5–17	Italy	OCBC Aquatic Centre, Singapore Referees: Zhang Liang (CHN), Georgios Stavridis (GRE)
		Score by quarters: 2–1, 0–5, 2–6, 1–5
		Neamtu 3	Goals	Condemi 4

14 July 2025 20:45	Report	Italy	17–16 (PSO)	Serbia	OCBC Aquatic Centre, Singapore Referees: Scott Voltz (USA), Boris Margeta (SLO)
		Score by quarters: 3–2, 3–3, 4–4, 3–4  PSO: 4–3
		Cannella 3	Goals	Mandić 5

16 July 2025 13:45	Report	Italy	28–4	South Africa	OCBC Aquatic Centre, Singapore Referees: Georgios Stavridis (GRE), Evan Andrews (CAN)
		Score by quarters: 6–1, 9–0, 8–1, 5–2
		Cassia, Ferrero 4	Goals	four players 1

Quarterfinals

20 July 2025 16:00	Report	Italy	11–17	Greece	OCBC Aquatic Centre, Singapore Referees: Andrej Franulović (CRO), Boris Margeta (SLO)
		Score by quarters: 1–6, 1–3, 4–4, 5–4
		Bruni 3	Goals	Argyropoulos 4

5th–8th place semifinals

22 July 2025 16:00	Report	Italy	8–12	Montenegro	OCBC Aquatic Centre, Singapore Referees: Germán Moller (ARG), Georgios Stavridis (GRE)
		Score by quarters: 0–3, 3–4, 1–2, 4–3
		Di Fulvio, Di Somma 2	Goals	Vukotić 4

Seventh place game

24 July 2025 16:00	Report	Italy	9–8	United States	OCBC Aquatic Centre, Singapore Referees: Zhang Liang (CHN), Germán Moller (ARG)
		Score by quarters: 3–3, 2–1, 2–2, 2–2
		Di Somma, Ferrero 2	Goals	R. Dodd 3

Women's tournament

Main article: Water polo at the 2025 World Aquatics Championships – Women's tournament

Team roster

The following is the Italian roster.^[6][7]

Head coach: Carlo Silipo

• 1 Aurora Condorelli GK
• 2 Morena Leone FP
• 3 Paola di Maria FP
• 4 Sara Cordovani FP
• 5 Veronica Gant FP
• 6 Lucrezia Cergol FP
• 7 Sofia Giustini FP
• 8 Roberta Bianconi FP
• 9 Dafne Bettini FP
• 10 Chiara Ranalli FP
• 11 Agnese Cocchiere FP
• 12 Gaia Gagliardi FP
• 13 Helga Maria Santapaola GK
• 14 Alessia Millo FP
• 15 Carlotta Meggiato FP

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Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	PSW	PSL	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Australia	3	3	0	0	0	68	23	+45	9	Quarterfinals
2	Italy	3	2	0	0	1	61	33	+28	6	Playoffs
3	New Zealand	3	1	0	0	2	37	36	+1	3
4	Singapore (H)	3	0	0	0	3	14	88	−74	0	13–16th place semifinals

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Source: Omegatiming
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head number of goals scored; 5) Goal difference.
(H) Host

11 July 2025 17:35	Report	Italy	14–9	New Zealand	OCBC Aquatic Centre, Singapore Referees: Aurély Blanchard (FRA), Tamás Kovács-Csatlós (HUN)
		Score by quarters: 1–2, 3–4, 5–2, 5–1
		three players 3	Goals	Weston 2

13 July 2025 17:35	Report	Australia	19–15	Italy	OCBC Aquatic Centre, Singapore Referees: David Gómez (ESP), Frank Ohme (GER)
		Score by quarters: 4–3, 4–2, 6–4, 5–6
		A. Andrews 5	Goals	Ranalli 6

15 July 2025 19:10	Report	Italy	32–5	Singapore	OCBC Aquatic Centre, Singapore Referees: Chisato Kurosaki (JPN), Maxim Gerasimov (GBR)
		Score by quarters: 8–0, 8–1, 6–1, 10–3
		Cocchiere 6	Goals	Lee 2

Playoffs

17 July 2025 16:00	Report	Italy	13–11	China	OCBC Aquatic Centre, Singapore Referees: Jennifer McCall (USA), Marta Cabanas (ESP)
		Score by quarters: 2–0, 4–5, 5–4, 2–2
		Bettini, Bianconi 3	Goals	Wang S., Yan S. 2

Quarterfinals

19 July 2025 19:10	Report	Hungary	12–9	Italy	OCBC Aquatic Centre, Singapore Referees: Jennifer McCall (USA), Boris Margeta (SLO)
		Score by quarters: 3–3, 3–2, 4–2, 2–2
		Keszthelyi 4	Goals	Ranalli 4

Semifinals

21 July 2025 20:00	Report	Italy	13–16	Netherlands	OCBC Aquatic Centre, Singapore Referees: Tamás Kovács-Csatlós (HUN), Marta Cabanas (ESP)
		Score by quarters: 2–6, 4–2, 3–5, 4–3
		Cocchiere 3	Goals	Keuning, L. Rogge 3

Final

23 July 2025 16:00	Report	Japan	15–20	Italy	OCBC Aquatic Centre, Singapore Referees: Aurély Blanchard (FRA), Nicholas Hodgers (AUS)
		Score by quarters: 5–5, 2–5, 2–6, 6–4
		Fukuda 3	Goals	Cergol, Gagliardi 5