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FACTBOX-Olympics-Swimming-Gold medallist Federica Pellegrini

Tue Aug 12, 2008 11:06pm EDT
 
Aug 13 (Reuters) - Factbox on swimmer Federica Pellegrini of
Italy who won the Olympic gold medal in the women's 200m
freestyle on Wednesday.
 Age: 20 (date of birth: Aug 5, 1988)
 Place of birth: Mirano, Italy
 Career achievements:
 Silver medallist at 2005 World Championships (200m
freestyle)
 Bronze medallist at 2007 World Championships (200m
freestyle)
 Gold medallist at 2008 European Championships (400m
freestyle)
 Silver medallist at 2008 European Championships (4x100
freestyle relay)
 Bronze medallist at 2008 European Championships (4x200
freestyle relay)
 Previous Olympic result:
 Silver medallist at 2004 Olympics (200m freestyle)
 Pellegrini broke her own world record to win gold in
Beijing. At the 2004 Olympics in Athens she became the youngest
Italian athlete to win an individual medal when she took
silver.
 (Compiled by Nigel Hunt, Editing by Padraic Halpin)
 (For more stories visit our multimedia Beijing website here; and see our
blog at blogs.reuters.com/china)



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