Alessandro De Rose (born 2 July 1992) is an Italian high diver. De Rose was born in

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. He competed for Italy at the

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. On 23 July 2017 De Rose won the men's title at Italian stop of the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series which was held at

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in Puglia. In December 2021, at the Abu Dhabi Aquatics Festival, held in

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, De Rose placed sixth in the 27 metre high dive with a score of 398.45 points.

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, held in

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in August, De Rose won the bronze medal in the high dive event (27 metre), with a score of 416.45 points, which was 39.25 points behind the score of 455.70 points by gold medalist

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, 19.75 points behind silver medalist

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of Romania, and 14.90 points ahead of fourth-place finisher

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. LEN (20 August 2022)
"European Aquatics Championships Roma 2022: Results Men's High Diving Final"
''Microplus''. Retrieved 20 August 2022.Tiseo, Giandomenico (20 August 2022)
"LIVE Tuffi grandi altezze, Europei 2022 in DIRETTA: rimonta di bronzo per Alessandro De Rose! Trionfa Popovici"
(in Italian). ''OA Sport''. Retrieved 20 August 2022.OA Sport (20 August 2022)
"Tuffi grandi altezze, Europei 2022: Alessandro De Rose conquista el bronzo dai 27 metri, oro al rumeno Popovic"
(in Italian). ''

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''. Retrieved 20 August 2022."Europei nuoto: tuffi; bronzo De Rose grandi altezze"
(in Italian). ''

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Alessandro De Rose
at Federnuoto Sportspeople from Cosenza Living people Male high divers Italian male divers 1992 births World Aquatics Championships medalists in high diving 21st-century Italian sportsmen European Aquatics Championships medalists in diving {{Italy-acrobatics-diving-bio-stub