Lorenzo Mora

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Lorenzo Mora
Personal information
Full nameLorenzo Mora
National teamItaly Italy
Born (1998-09-30) 30 September 1998 (age 23)[1]
Carpi, Emilia-Romagna, Italy[2]
Height1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)[3]
Sport
SportSwimming
StrokesBackstroke
ClubGS Fiamme Oro[4]
Team Iron[5]
CoachFabrizio Bastelli[2]
Medal record
Men's swimming
Representing  Italy
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
World Championships (SC) 1 1 2
European Championships (SC) 1 1 0
Total 2 2 2
World Championships (SC)
Gold medal – first place 2021 Abu Dhabi 4×100 m medley
Silver medal – second place 2021 Abu Dhabi 50 m backstroke
Bronze medal – third place 2021 Abu Dhabi 4×50 m mixed medley
Bronze medal ��� third place 2021 Abu Dhabi 4×50 m medley
European Championships (SC)
Gold medal – first place 2021 Kazan 4×50 m medley
Silver medal – second place 2021 Kazan 200 m backstroke

Lorenzo Mora (born 30 September 1998) is a competitive Italian swimmer. He is an Italian record holder in the short course 200 metre backstroke and 4×100 metre medley relay. At the 2021 European Short Course Championships he won the silver medal in the 200 metre backstroke in Italian record time and won a gold medal as part of the 4x50 metre medley relay. He won a gold medal in the 4×100 metre medley relay, a silver medal in the 50 metre backstroke, and bronze medals in the 4×50 metre mixed medley relay and 4×50 metre medley relay at the 2021 World Short Course Championships. In the International Swimming League, he competes on Team Iron.

Early life[]

Mora was born on 30 September 1998 in Carpi, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.[1][2]

Career[]

2019[]

At the 2019 Nico Sapio Trophy in Genoa, Mora set his first Italian record, breaking the mark of 1:50.75 in the short course 200 metre backstroke set by Simone Sabbioni in 2015 with a time of 1:50.45 in the final.[6]

2021 European Short Course Championships[]

2021 European Championships
Gold medal – first place 4x50 m medley relay 1:30.14 (h)
Silver medal – second place 200 m backstroke 1:49.73 (NR)

At the 2021 European Short Course Championships, held in the Palace of Water Sports in Kazan, Russia, Mora placed sixth in the 50 metre backstroke final with a time of 23.19 seconds.[7] In the 100 metre backstroke, he swam a 50.19 and placed sixth in the final after swimming a time of 50.12 seconds in the semifinals.[8][9] For his third and final individual event, Mora swam a 1:52.73 in the prelims heats of the 200 metre backstroke, qualifying for the semifinals later the same day.[10] In the evening semifinals, Mora set a new Italian record in the event with his time of 1:50.17, which advanced him to the final ranked first.[11][12] The following day, the sixth and final day of competition, Mora lowered his own Italian record in the 200 metre backstroke with a time of 1:49.73 in the final that also won him the silver medal in the event.[13][14] For his relay event, the 4×50 metre medley relay, Mora swam the backstroke leg of the relay in a time of 23.21 in the prelims heats, helping advance the relay to the final ranked second with a time of 1:32.98.[15] The finals relay, which did not include Mora, went on to place first in the final and all Italy relay members in the prelims and final won a gold medal for their efforts.[16]

2021 International Swimming League[]

Playoffs season beginnings[]

As part of the swim club Team Iron in the 2021 International Swimming League, Mora helped his club advance to the playoffs, placing third in the 100 metre backstroke at the eleventh and final match of the regular season.[17] He won the 200 metre backstroke in the first match of the playoffs season with a time of 1:50.92, finishing over a second and a half before second and third place finishers Brodie Williams and Evgeny Rylov.[18][19] In the 50 metre backstroke later the same day, Mora placed sixth with his time of 23.46 seconds.[19][20] Up for diversifying his racing portfolio, Mora also swum the second leg of the 4x100 metre freestyle relay, splitting a time of 52.12 seconds, which was exactly two seconds slower than his personal best 100 metre time in backstroke, and helping the relay finish in seventh place with a time of 3:30.48.[21] The second day of the match, Mora placed fifth with a near-personal-best time of 50.41 seconds in the 100 metre backstroke.[22][23] He followed up his individual event swim by swimming the backstroke leg of the mixed 4x100 metre medley relay, where his relay placed eighth overall and he swam a time of 50.63 seconds for his 100 metre portion of the relay.[24]

Playoffs match 4[]

In the fourth match of the playoffs, the second match Team Iron competed in, Mora started his competition on day one with a time of 1:51.21 in the 200 metre backstroke, which earned him fourth place and his team 5.0 points.[25][26] Mora swam a split of 47.74 seconds for the third leg of the 4x100 metre freestyle relay, helping the relay team place sixth in a time of 3:11.39.[26][27] In his third race of the day, Mora placed sixth in the 50 metre backstroke with a time of 23.56 seconds.[26][28] The second and final day of competition for the match, Mora earned another 2.0 points for his team, placing seventh in the 100 metre backstroke with a time of 50.75 seconds.[29][30] Swimming the backstroke leg of the mixed 4x100 metre medley relay, Mora helped the relay earn 10.0 points and finish fourth with a time of 3:37.05.[30][31]

Playoffs match 6[]

On day one of the sixth and final playoffs match of the year, Mora won the 200 metre backstroke in a time of 1:50.55 and scored 12.0 points for Team Iron, marking his second win in an individual event in the playoffs season.[32][33] In his second event of the day, the 4×100 metre freestyle relay, Mora split a time of 50.99 seconds for the second leg of the relay to help it place seventh.[33][34] For his final race of the day, Mora was the fastest backstroke leg out of all the relays in the 4×100 metre medley relay with a lead-off time of 50.16 seconds, which helped the relay place third in 3:24.94 and win 12.0 points.[33][35] On 28 November, the second and final day of the match, Mora placed second in the 100 metre backstroke with a near personal best time of 50.17 seconds, earning 7.0 points.[36] In the 4×100 meter mixed medley relay, Mora swum a 50.05 for the backstroke leg of the relay, which was faster than his personal best time of 50.12 seconds but did not count as a best time because it was swum in a mixed gender event, and out-split all other backstrokers in the event to help his relay earn 10.0 points and place fourth overall.[37] Mora's team, Team Iron, took second place over the Aqua Centurions by 1.5 points for the match, meaning had Mora not won the 200 metre backstroke, Team Iron would have finished in third place instead of second place.[32][38] By the end of the 2021 season, out of the 488 swimmers who had competed in the International Swimming League between 2019 and 2021 and earned positive most valuable player points, Mora ranked 195th.[39]

2021 Italian Short Course Championships[]

Two days after the end of racing in the International Swimming League for Mora for the year, he won the 100 metre backstroke with a time of 50.38 seconds, over half a second faster than the second place finisher, at the 2021 Italian Short Course National Championships in Riccione.[4] In the 50 metre backstroke the next day, Mora won the event with a time of 23.43 seconds.[40] He swam a 1:50.27 in the 200 metre backstroke, finishing over 3 seconds ahead of the next fastest competitor and winning his third event of the Championships.[41]

2021 World Short Course Championships[]

2021 World Championships
Gold medal – first place 4×100 m medley 3:19.76 (CR,NR)
Silver medal – second place 50 m backstroke 22.90
Bronze medal – third place 4×50 m mixed medley 1:37.29
Bronze medal – third place 4×50 m medley 1:30.78

Mora was named to the Italian roster in early December for the 2021 World Short Course Championships in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates starting two weeks after the roster announcement.[42] For his individual events, Mora entered to compete in all distances in backstroke, the 50 metre backstroke, the 100 metre backstroke, and the 200 metre backstroke.[3]

In the prelims heats of the 100 metre backstroke, Mora tied Shaine Casas of the United States in the same heat for third rank across all heats with a time of 50.40 seconds and qualified for the semifinals.[43][44] Later in the day, Mora swum a personal best time of 49.99 seconds in the semifinals of the 100 metre backstroke, marking the first time he had swum the event faster than 50 seconds, and advanced to the final ranking fifth.[45] The following day, Mora placed eighth with a personal best time of 49.93 seconds that was less than four-tenths of a second away from earning the bronze medal, which went to Robert Glință of Romania who swam a time of 49.60 seconds.[46] In the morning prelims heats of the 50 metre backstroke on day three, Mora advanced to the semifinals tied in ranking for eighth with his time of 23.49 seconds.[47] For the semifinals, Mora and Shaine Casas both achieved a time of 23.13 seconds and qualified for the final tied in rank for fourth overall.[48] Later in the same session, Mora won a bronze medal as part of the 4×50 metre mixed medley relay, splitting a 23.28 for the backstroke leg of the relay in the final to contribute to the relay's time of 1:37.29.[49]

In the evening of day four, Mora won a silver medal in the final of the 50 metre backstroke, tying Christian Diener of Germany with a time of 22.90 seconds and finishing less than four-tenths of a second behind gold medalist Kliment Kolesnikov of Russia.[50] Mora led-off the 4×50 metre medley relay in the prelims heats with a split of 23.65 on day five, contributing to a time of 1:33.60 and ranking of fifth heading into the final.[51] In the final Mora lowered his backstroke split to a 23.24, contributing to the final time of 1:30.78 and a bronze-medal-win.[52] On the sixth and final day of competition, Mora swam a 1:51.58 in the prelims heats of the 200 metre backstroke and qualified for the final ranking fifth.[53] In the final of the 200 metre backstroke later in the day, Mora set a new Italian record with his time of 1:49.27, which lowered his former record by almost half a second and placed him fourth in the event.[54] For his last event at the championships, Mora split a 50.34 for the backstroke leg of the 4×100 metre medley relay, helping win the gold medal in a Championships record and an Italian record time of 3:19.76.[55][56] Mora's medals contributed to Italy ranking second in the country medal table in terms of total number of medals won and third in terms of total number of gold medals won, as well as Europe ranking number one in the continent medal table both in terms of total number of gold medals won and in terms of total number of medals won.[57]

International championships[]

Meet 50 backstroke 100 backstroke 200 backstroke 4×50 medley 4×100 medley 4×50 mixed medley
EG 2015 15th 28th 17th N/A N/A
EC 2020 32nd 29th 14th N/A N/A
ESC 2021 6th 6th 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s)[a] N/A
SCW 2021 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 8th 4th 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s) 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
a Mora swam only in the prelims heats.

Personal best times[]

Short course metres (25 m pool)[]

Event Time Meet Location Date Notes Ref
50 m backstroke 22.90 2021 World Short Course Championships Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates 19 December 2021 [50]
100 m backstroke 49.93 2021 World Short Course Championships Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates 17 December 2021 [46]
200 m backstroke 1:49.27 2021 World Short Course Championships Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates 21 December 2021 NR [54]
Legend: NR – Italian record;
Records not set in finals: h – heat; sf – semifinal; r – relay 1st leg; rh – relay heat 1st leg; b – B final; † – en route to final mark; tt – time trial

National records[]

Short course metres[]

No. Event Time Meet Location Date Age Status Ref
1 200 m backstroke 1:50.45 2019 Nico Sapio Trophy Genoa 8 November 2019 21 Former [6]
2 200 m backstroke (2) 1:50.17 sf 2021 European Short Course Championships Kazan, Russia 6 November 2021 23 Former [11][12]
3 200 m backstroke (3) 1:49.73 2021 European Short Course Championships Kazan, Russia 7 November 2021 23 Former [13][14]
4 200 m backstroke (4) 1:49.27 2021 World Short Course Championships Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates 21 December 2021 23 Current [54]
5 4×100 m medley 3:19.76 2021 World Short Course Championships Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates 21 December 2021 23 Current [55][56]

Legend: sf – semifinal

See also[]

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