There will be 35 Italian team swimmers in Rio 2016. The composition of the Italian team that will represent the swimming discipline in the XXXI Edition of the Summer Olympic Games has indeed been made official. The final choice, agreed between FIN and CONI, sees the participation of 18 men and 17 women.

Here is the full list of participants: Marco Belotti, Federico Bocchia, Piero Codia, Alex Di Giorgio, Gabriele Detti, Luca Dotto, Andrea Mitchell D’Arrigo, Luca Leonardi, Filippo Magnini, Luca Marin, Marco Orsi, Gregorio Paltrinieri, Luca Pizzini, Matteo Rivolta, Simone Sabbioni, Michele Santucci, Andrea Toniato, Federico Turrini, Ilaria Bianchi, Diletta Carli, Martina Carraro, Arianna Castiglioni, Martina De Memme, Silvia Di Pietro, Erika Ferraioli, Sara Franceschi, Chiara Masini Luccetti, Alice Mizzau, Margherita Panziera, Federica Pellegrini, Aglaia Pezzato, Stefania Pirozzi, Alessia Polieri, Luisa Trombetti and Carlotta Zofkova.

The Italian athletes who are certain to participate in Rio 2016 have gone up to 269 (141 men, 128 women) in 27 different disciplines, with 157 individual passes.

 

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