Years active: 2003 - present (started around 14 years old; 21 years in the business)
About Federica Pellegrini
She is currently the women's 200 m freestyle (long course and short course) and 400 m (long course) freestyle world record holder. At the 2009 World Championships in Rome, Pellegrini became the first woman ever to breach the 4 minute barrier in 400 m freestyle with the time 3:59.15. Pellegrini is the first female Olympic champion in the history of Italian swimming; she is also the only Italian swimmer to have set world records in more than one event.
She won the Awards of World Swimmer of the Year in 2009 and the European Swimmer of the Year in 2009 and 2010.
Medal Record of Federica Pellegrini in the main events
Olympic Games
Gold 2008 Beijing 200 m freestyle
Silver 2004 Athens 200 m freestyle
World Championships (LC)
Gold 2009 Rome 400 m freestyle
Gold 2009 Rome 200 m freestyle
Gold 2011 Shanghai 200 m freestyle
Gold 2011 Shanghai 400 m freestyle
Silver 2005 Montreal[2] 200 m freestyle
Bronze 2007 Melbourne[3] 200 m freestyle
World Championships (SC)
Silver 2006 Shanghai 200 m freestyle
Bronze 2006 Shanghai 400 m freestyle
Bronze 2010 Dubai 400 m freestyle
European Championships (LC)
Gold 2008 Eindhoven 400 m freestyle
Gold 2010 Budapest 200 m freestyle
Silver 2008 Eindhoven 4×100 m freestyle
Bronze 2008 Eindhoven 4×200 m freestyle
Bronze 2010 Budapest 800 m freestyle
European Championships (SC)
Gold 2005 Trieste 200 m freestyle
Gold 2008 Rijeka 200 m freestyle
Gold 2009 Istanbul 200 m freestyle
Gold 2010 Eindhoven 800 m freestyle
Silver 2006 Helsinki 400 m freestyle
Silver 2007 Debrecen 400 m freestyle
Bronze 2005 Trieste 400 m freestyle
Bronze 2008 Rijeka 4x50 m medley
Bronze 2010 Eindhoven 4x50 m medley
Summer Universiade
Gold 2007 Bangkok 200 m freestyle
Gold 2007 Bangkok 400 m freestyle
Beyond Swimming
Federica Pellegrini is a fan of the Juventus football club and admires Valentino Rossi, an Italian professional motorcycle racer and a multiple MotoGP World Champion. Apart from her swimming, she loves puppets and teddies, and music is her favorite hobby. Federica Pellegrini has also featured in the covers of few magazines in Italy.
She likes watching Tv, but in small doses.She is not a person who is always present at every event. She prefers to choose carefully among the many requests she gets.She amusingly remembers her guest appearance on Miss Italia 2009 and the interviews given to the children on Bonolis' Tv show "Chi ha incastrato Peter Pan".Porta a Porta has dedicated an instalment to her and, again on Rai Uno, she was the only sportswoman invited to the special event "Affari Tuoi" on January 6 the 2010 dedicated to the Lotteria Italia tickets.
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