Lisa Angiolini (born 29 June 1995) is an Italian

swimmer Swimming is an individual or team racing sport that requires the use of one's entire body to move through water. The sport takes place in pools or open water (e.g., in a sea or lake). Competitive swimming is one of the most popular Olympic ...

. She competed in the

women's 200 metre breaststroke A woman is an adult female human. Before adulthood, a female child or adolescent is referred to as a girl. Typically, women are of the female sex and inherit a pair of X chromosomes, one from each parent, and women with functional uteruses ...

event at the

2020 European Aquatics Championships The 2020 European Aquatics Championships (also known as the 2021 European Aquatics Championships; 35th) were scheduled to take place in Budapest, Hungary, from 11 to 24 May 2020. However, on 5 May it was announced that the event had been postpon ...

, in

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, Hungary. She was also part of the Italian team that won the bronze medal in the women's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay event. At the

2022 European Aquatics Championships The 2022 European Aquatics Championships took place in Rome, Italy, from 11 to 21 August 2022. The event exactly coincided with, but was not officially part of, the 2022 European Championships. This diverged from the joined format of the 2018 Eu ...

, held in

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, Angiolini won the silver medal in the 100 metre breaststroke with a time of 1:06.34, which was 0.37 seconds behind gold medalist and fellow Italian

Benedetta Pilato Benedetta Pilato (born 28 January 2005) is an Italian swimmer. She is the world record holder in the long course 50 metre breaststroke. She is the European champion in the 50 metre breaststroke in 2021 and the 100 metre breaststroke in 2022 a ...

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(13 August 2022)
"European Aquatics Championships Roma 2022: Results 100m Breaststroke Women Final"
''Microplus''. Retrieved 13 August 2022."Europei di nuoto Roma, risultati in diretta: sincro, Minisini e Ruggiero oro nel duo misto libero. Bronzo a Cerruti e Ferro"
(in Italian). ''

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''. 13 August 2022. Retrieved 13 August 2022.Bianchini, Chiara (13 August 2022)
"La favola di Lisa Angiolini, da Poggibonsi all'argento nei 100 rana agli Europei di Roma"
(in Italian). ''intoscana.it''. Retrieved 13 August 2022."Europei, oro per Minisini-Ruggiero. Pilato-Angiolini, doppietta nei 100 rana. Paltrinieri show negli 800 sl"
(in Italian). ''

Tuttosport ''Tuttosport'' is a daily sports newspaper based in the city of Turin, Italy. History and profile ''Tuttosport'' was first published on 30 July 1945. Renato Casalbore (who later died in the 1949 Superga air disaster alongside the Grande Torino ...

''. 13 August 2022. Retrieved 13 August 2022.

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* 1995 births Living people Italian female freestyle swimmers Italian female breaststroke swimmers Place of birth missing (living people) European Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming Mediterranean Games medalists in swimming Mediterranean Games gold medalists for Italy Swimmers at the 2022 Mediterranean Games 21st-century Italian sportswomen Swimmers at the 2024 Summer Olympics Olympic swimmers for Italy {{Italy-swimming-bio-stub