Kazan – Federica Pellegrini and Gregorio Paltrinieri shine a silver light on the Kazan Arena for the fourth day of the World Swimming Championship. On her 27th birthday of the Olympic gold medal winner, Pellegrini celebrates her four world titles, eleven world records (including the current 200 freestyle with 1’52 “98), her most recent silver medal at the 200m freestyle with a time of 1’55″32 beaten only by the global swimming phenomenon that is the 18-year-old American Katie Ledecky, who has two world records and two titles already under her belt in the 400m freestyle and 1500m freestyle in Kazan, which she won in 1’55″16. Gregorio Paltrinieri arrived second in the 800m freestyle in 7’40 “81 with a new European record under his belt, ‘taken’ from his training partner in Ostia’s Federal Center, Gabriel Detti. The Chinese Olympic champion Sun Yang won the first long distance challenge, after bringing home the gold medal for the 400m freestyle in 7’39 “96. (9Colonne)
