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Ben Proud swam the fourth fastest 50m freestyle of all time to claim a stunning win at the 2018 Sette Colli Trophy in Italy this weekend.

Proud’s winning time of 21.16 on the opening night was a double record-breaker, not only improving on his British best of 21.30 but also smashing Ashley Callus’ Commonwealth record from 2009.

The British swimmer’s pace was far too hot for Brazilian Bruno Fratus, who was second in 21.77. Italian Andrea Vergani was third in 22.21.

It took a new world record to deny Proud a Sette Colli double in the men’s 50m butterfly on day three. Ukranian Andriy Govorov, who came so close to breaking Rafael Munoz’s 2009 world record on 22.43 in the Mare Nostrum Series a fortnight ago, finally achieved it on Sunday night with a blistering time of 22.27.

Proud came home in second with a season-best time of 22.93, while Dutch swimmer Mathys Goosen was third in 23.55.

Adam Peaty continued his breaststroke domination over 50m and 100m, doing the double with another two impressive swims.

Peaty’s winning time of 26.41 in the 50m was the fastest time this year, bettering the 26.49 he swam at the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games in April. The time also broke his own meet record by two tenths of a second.

Over 100m, Peaty again set a meet record to win in 58.61, thanks in no small part to a ferocious 27.06 opening split that proved too tough for Arno Kamminga in second and Fabio Scozzoli in third. Peaty’s fellow Brit James Wilby was fourth in 1:00.01.

Holly Hibbott claimed another gold for Britain in the women’s 400m freestyle, posting a winning time of 4:09.78,

James Guy locked horns again with Chad le Clos in the men’s 100m butterfly, where the result went the same way as their Commonwealth Games battle in April. Le Clos set a meet record of 51.24 to edge out Guy by two tenths.

Guy also claimed a third place finish with 1:56.88 in the 200m butterfly, behind Altamir Luiz Melo (1:55.83) and Tamas Kenderesi (1:56.72), as well as a fourth in the 200m freestyle (1:47.98).

Elsewhere for the British squad, there were second places for Siobhan-Marie O’Connor in the 100m breaststroke (1:07.40), Aimee Willmott in the 400m IM (4:38.81), Imogen Clark in the 50m breaststroke (30.60), Jessica Fullalove in the 200m backstroke (2:11.16), Molly Renshaw in the 200m breaststroke (2:25.66) and Max Litchfield in the men’s 200m IM (1:59.68).

Katherine Greenslade joined Fullalove on the podium by finishing third in the 200m backstroke (2:12.23), while Chloe Tutton was just behind Renshaw to take third in the 200m breaststroke (2:25.97). Georgia Davies was third in the 50m backstroke (27.95), and Alys Thomas took bronze in the 200m butterfly (2:08.26).

Luke Greenbank swam a time of 1:59.05 to finish third in the men’s 200m backstroke, but just missed out on another podium when he had to settle for fourth in the 100m backstroke (54.93).

At the end of the three-day meet, the British team were tied with Hungary on 54.00 points, and were second only to Italy in the Mario Saini Trophy national team rankings.

Head coach Bill Furniss said it was mission accomplished at the meeting, in terms of putting the finishing touches on preparation for the 2018 European Championships next month.

Furniss said: “We’re pleased with the competitiveness of the team – we raced hard and fulfilled our objectives for the meet. We can now focus on Glasgow knowing we’re in a good place.”

Sette Colli 2018 Results – Day 1

Women’s 50m Backstroke: 1 Etiene Medeiros (Brazil) 27.87, 2 Mie Nielsen (Denmark) 27.92, 3 Georgia Davies (Britain) 27.95, 4 Silvia Scalia (Italy) 28.01, 5 Simona Baumrtova (Czech Republic) 28.02, 6 Lucy Hope (Britain) 28.19, 7 Kira Toussaint (Netherlands) 28.35, 8 Cassie Wild (Britain) 28.70.

Men’s 50m Backstroke: 1 Robert-Andrei Glinta (Romania) 24.78, 2 Gabriel Fantoni (Brazil) 24.95, 3 Matteo Milli (Italy) 25.15, 4 Simone Sabbioni (Italy) 25.36, 5 Conor Ferguson (Ireland) 25.46, 6 Thomas Ceccon (Italy) 25.56, 7 Richard Bohus (Hungary) 25.81, 8 Giulio Brugnoni (Italy) 25.88.

Women’s 400m Freestyle: 1 Holly Hibbott (Britain) 4:09.78, 2 Valentine Dumont (Belgium) 4:11.12, 3 Stefania Pirozzi (Italy) 4:11.36, 4 Linda Caponi (Italy) 4:11.85, 5 Erica Musso (Italy) 4:12.22, 6 Diletta Carli (Italy) 4:13.35, 7 Hannah Miley (Britain) 4:14.82, 8 Katherine Greenslade (Britain) 4:15.28.

Men’s 400m Freestyle: 1 Mykhaylo Romanchuk (Ukraine) 3:48.04, 2 Marwan Elkamesh (Egypt) 3:49.40, 3 Domenico Aceranza (Italy) 3:48.75, 4 Poul Zellman (Germany) 3:49.94, 5 Matteo Ciampi (Italy) 3:51.16, 6 Jacob Heidtmann (Germany) 3:51.94, 7 Daniel Jervis (Britain) 3:52.01, 8 Stephen Milne (Britain) 3:56.26.

Women’s 100m Breaststroke: 1 Yuliya Efimova (Russia) 1:04.98, 2 Siobhan-Marie O’Connor (Britain) 1:07.40, 3 Arianna Castiglioni (Italy) 1:07.66, 4 Rikke Moeller Pedersen (Denmark) 1:07.94, 5 Marina Carraro (Italy) 1:08.26, 6 Fanny Lecluyse (Belgium) 1:08.33, 7 Molly Renshaw (Britain) 1:08.50), 8 Mona McSharry (Ireland) 1:08.73.

Men’s 100m Breaststroke: 1 Adam Peaty (Britain) 58.61, 2 Arno Kamminga (Netherlands) 59.14, 3 Fabio Scozzoli (Italy) 59.89, 4 James Wilby (Britain) 1:00.01, 5 Joao Gomes Junior (Brazil) 1:00.49, 6 Darragh Greene (Ireland) 1:00.80, 7 Alessandro Pinzuti (Italy) 1:00.92, 8 Ross Murdoch (Britain) 1:01.00.

Women’s 50m Butterfly: 1 Sarah Sjostrom (Sweden) 25.19, 2 Ranomi Kromowidjojo (Netherlands) 25.90, 3 Elena Di Liddo (Italy) 26.13, 4 Kimberly Buys (Belgium) 26.19, 5 Emilie Beckmann (Denmark) 26.31, =6 Ilaria Bianchi (Italy) 26.63, =6 Dainara De Paula (Brazil) 26.63, 8 Kim Busch (Netherlands) 26.68.

Men’s 100m Butterfly: 1 Chad le Clos (South Africa) 51.24, 2 James Guy (Britain) 51.44, 3 Federico Burdisso (Italy) 51.73, 4 Piero Codia (Italy) 52.15, 5 Bence Pulai (Hungary) 52.60, 6 Mathys Goosen (Netherlands) 52.62, 7 Vinicius Lanza (Brazil) 52.74, 8 Andriy Govorov (Ukraine) 52.98.

Women’s 50m Freestyle: 1 Pernille Blume (Denmark) 23.92, 2 Sarah Sjostrom (Sweden) 24.18, 3 Ranomi Kromowidjojo (Netherlands) 24.64, 4 Femke Heemskerk (Netherlands) 24.82, 5 Kim Busch (Netherlands) 25.18, 6 Julie Kepp Jensen (Denmark) 25.34, 7 Tamara Van Vliet (Netherlands) 25.39, 8 Lorrane Ferreira (Brazil) 25.41.

Men’s 50m Freestyle: 1 Ben Proud (Britain) 21.16, 2 Bruno Fratus (Brazil) 21.77, 3 Andrea Vergani (Italy) 22.21, 4 Jesse Puts (Netherlands) 22.24, 5 Luca Dotto (Italy) 22.26, 6 Shinri Shioura (Japan) 22.28, 7 Pedro Spajari (Brazil) 22.44, 8 Andreij Arbusov (Germany) 22.59.

Women’s 1500m Freestyle: 1 Simona Quadarella (Italy) 15:56.81, 2 Boglarka Kapas (Hungary) 16:07.48, 3 Alisia Tettamanzi (Italy) 16:31.40, 4 Silvia Ciccarella (Italy) 16:40.59, 5 Helena Rosendahl Bach (Denmark) 16:46.59, 6 Martina Elhenicka (Czech Republic) 16:52.23, 7 Caroline Jouisse (France) 17:19.09.

Sette Colli 2018 Results – Day 2

Women’s 100m Butterfly: 1 Sarah Sjoestroem (Sweden) 56.29, 2 Elena Di Liddo (Italy) 57.38, 3 Ilaria Bianchi (Italy) 57.84, 4 Alys Thomas (Britain) 58.52, 5 Liliana Szilagyi (Hungary) 58.91, 6 Kimberly Buys (Belgium) 59.08, 7 Dainara de Paula (Brazil) 59.35, 8 Emilie Beckmann (Denmark) 59.64.

Men’s 200m Butterfly: 1 Altamir Luiz Melo (Brazil) 1:55.83, 2 Tamas Kenderesi (Hungary) 1:56.72, 3 James Guy (Britain) 1:56.88, 4 Filippo Berlincioni (Italy) 1:57.36, 5 Matteo Pelizzari (Italy) 1:57.76, 6 Giacomo Carini (Italy) 1:59.27, 7 Ramon Klenz (Germany) 1:59.82, 8 Giusweppe Perfetto (Italy) 1:59.96.

Women’s 100m Backstroke: 1 Mie Nielsen (Denmark) 59.57, 2 Margherita Panziera (Italy) 59.80, 3 Simona Baumrtova (Czech Republic) 1:00.08, 4 Costa de Saint Zofkova (Italy) 1:00.27, 5 Kira Toussaint (Netherlands) 1:00.39, 6 Georgia Davies (Britain) 1:00.51, 7 Silvia Scalia (Italy) 1:01.12, 8 Jessica Fullalove (Britain) 1:01.29.

Men’s 100m Backstroke: 1 Robert-Andrei Glinta (Romania) 53.96, 2 Gabriel Fantoni (Brazil) 54.49, 3 Matteo Milli (Italy) 54.54, 4 Luke Greenbank (Britain) 54.93, 5 Simone Sabbioni (Italy) 54.94, 6 Tomas Franta (Czech Republic) 54.95, 7 Christopher Ciccarese (Italy) 55.28, 8 Conor Ferguson (Ireland) 55.73.

Women’s 400m IM: 1 Ilaria Cusinato (Italy) 4:34.65, 2 Aimee Willmott (Britain) 4:38.81, 3 Boglarka Kapas (Hungary) 4:39.81, 4 Hannah Miley (Britain) 4:40.04, 5 Carlotta Toni (Italy) 4:41.99, 6 Abbie Wood (Britain) 4:42.98, 7 Alessia Polieri (Italy) 4:44.25, 8 Barbora Zavadova (Czech Republic) 4:48.41.

Men’s 400m IM: 1 David Verraszto (Hungary) 4:11.98, 2 Brandonn Almeida (Brazil) 4:15.51, 3 Federico Turrini (Italy) 4:16.51, 4 Max Litchfield (Britain) 4:16.61, 5 Pier Andrea Matterazzi (Italy) 4:19.61, 6 Jacob Heidtmann (Germany) 4:19.69, 7 Gergely Gyurta (Hungary) 4:21.05, 8 Mattia Bondavalli (Italy) 4.24.31.

Women’s 100m Freestyle: 1 Pernille Blume (Denmark) 52.72, 2 Sarah Sjoestroem (Sweden) 52.77, 3 Femke Heemskerk (Netherlands) 53.31, 4 Ranomi Kromowidjojo (Netherlands) 53.78, 5 Federica Pellegrini (Italy) 53.99, 6 Erika Ferraioli (Italy) 54.88, 7 Larissa Oliveira (Brazil) 54.93, 8 Maria Ugolkova (Switzerland) 54.95.

Men’s 100m Freestyle: 1 Alessandro Miressi (Italy) 48.25, 2 Bruno Fratus (Brazil) 48.58, 3 Pedro Spajari (Brazil) 48.72, 4 Pieter Timmers (Belgium) 49.09, 5 Shinri Shioura (Japan) 49.10, 6 Luca Dotto (Italy) 49.16, 7 Marcelo Chierighini (Brazil) 49.49, 8 Santo Condorelli (Italy) 50.07.

Women’s 50m Breaststroke: 1 Yuliya Efimova (Russia) 29.84, 2 Imogen Clark (Britain) 30.60, 3 Martina Carraro (Italy) 30.85, 4 Arianna Castiglioni (Italy) 31.05, 5 Siobhan-Marie O’Connor (Britain) 31.29, 6 Fanny Lecluyse (Belgium) 31.35, 7 Mona McSharry (Ireland) 31.60, 8 Rikke Moeller Pedersen (Denmark) 31.94.

Men’s 50m Breaststroke: 1 Adam Peaty (Britain) 26.41, 2 Joao Gomes Junior (Brazil) 27.00, 3 Fabio Scozzoli (Italy) 27.24, 4 Arno Kamminga (Netherlands) 27.26, 5 Darragh Greene (Ireland) 27.48, 6 Alessandro Pinzuti (Italy) 27.59, 7 James Wilby (Britain) 27.65, 8 Andrea Toniato (Italy) 27.98.

Sette Colli 2018 Results – Day 3

Men’s 200m Backstroke: 1 Adam Telegdy (Hungary) 1:58.17, 2 Christopher Ciccarese (Italy) 1:58.77, 3 Luke Greenbank (Britain) 1:59.05, 4 Christian Diener (Germany) 1:59.17, 5 Emanuel Turchi (Italy) 1:59.33, 6 Brodie Williams (Britain) 1:59.51, 7 Leonardo de Deus (Brazil) 1:59.89, 8 Matteo Milli (Italy) 2:02.54.

Women’s 200m Backstroke: 1 Margherita Panziera (Italy) 2:07.16, 2 Jessica Fullalove (Britain) 2:11.16, 3 Katherine Greenslade (Britain) 2:12.23, 4 Simona Baumrtova (Czech Republic) 2:12.26, 5 Jenny Mensing (Germany) 2:12.54, 6 Tessa Vermeulen (Netherlands) 2:13.61, 7 Giulia Ramatelli (Italy) 2:15.30, 8 Martina Cenci (Italy) 2:16.68.

Men’s 50m Butterfly: 1 Andriy Govorov (Ukraine) 22.27, 2 Ben Proud (Britain) 22.93, 3 Mathys Goosen (Netherlands) 23.55, 4 Daniele D’Angelo (Italy) 23.57, 5 Piero Codia (Italy) 23.78, 6 Jesse Puts (Netherlands) 23.85, 7 Damian Wierling (Germany) 23.87, 8 Vinicius Lanza (Brazil) 24.01.

Women’s 200m Butterfly: 1 Boglarka Kapas (Hungary) 2:07.54, 2 Liliana Szilagyi (Hungary) 2:08.01, 3 Alys Thomas (Britain) 2:08.26, 4 Alessia Polieri (Italy) 2:10.86, 5 Giorgia Romei (Italy) 2:11.44, 6 Francesca Annis (Italy) 2:11.54, 7 Charlotte Atkinson (Britain) 2:12.72, 8 Eszter Laban (Hungary) 2:13.54.

Men’s 200m Breaststroke: 1 Luca Pizzini (Italy) 2:09.34, 2 Marco Koch (Germany) 2:09.45, 3 Arno Kamminga (Netherlands) 2:09.86, 4 James Wilby (Britain) 2:11.44, 5 Flavio Bizzarri (Italy) 2:12.32, 6 Moises Daniel Loschi (Italy) 2:12.37, 7 Edoardo Giorgetti (Italy) 2:12.50, 8 Darragh Greene (Ireland) 2:14.59.

Women’s 200m Breaststroke: 1 Yuliya Efimova (Russia) 2:20.72, 2 Molly Renshaw (Britain) 2:25.66, 3 Chloe Tutton (Britain) 2:25.97, 4 Francesca Fangio (Italy) 2:26.40, 5 Rikke Moeller Pedersen (Denmark) 2:26.80, 6 Fanny Lecluyse (Belgium) 2:27.09, 7 Anna Pirvano (Italy) 2:27.52, 8 Anna Kroniger (Germany) 2:27.96.

Men’s 200m Freestyle: 1 Luiz Altamir Melo (Brazil) 1:46.84, 2 Fernando Scheffer (Brazil) 1:46.84, 3 Filippo Megli (Italy) 1:47.58, 4 James Guy (Britain) 1:47.98, 5 Stephen Milne (Britain) 1:48.72, 6 Alessio Colonna Proietti (Italy) 1:48.76, 7 Jacob Heidtmann (Germany) 1:48.87, 8 Duncan Scott (Britain) 1:49.61.

Women’s 200m Freestyle: 1 Femke Heemskerk (Netherlands) 1:56.39, 2 Manuella Lyrio (Brazil) 1:57.99, 3 Larissa Oliveira (Brazil) 1:58.55, 4 Valentine Dumont (Belgium) 1:58.66, 5 Marjolein Delno (Netherlands) 2:00.29, 6 Simona Quadarella (Italy) 2:00.30, 7 Robin Neumann (Netherlands) 2:00.34, 8 Katherine Greenslade (Britain) 2:02.13.

Men’s 200m IM: 1 David Verraszto (Hungary) 1:59.65, 2 Max Litchfield (Britain) 1:59.68, 3 Giovanni Sorriso (Italy) 2:00.82, 4 Massimiliano Matteazzi (Italy) 2:01.62, 5 Lorenzo Glessi (Italy) 2:01.80, 6 Leonardo Santos (Brazil) 2:02.79, 7 Duncan Scott (Britain) 2:03.58, 8 Federico Turrini (Italy) 2:04.87.

Women’s 200m IM: 1 Ilaria Cusinato (Italy) 2:10.92, 2 Yuliya Efimova (Russia) 2:11.89, 3 Maria Ugolkova (Switzerland) 2:12.19, 4 Abbie Wood (Britain) 2:14.29, 5 Evelyn Verraszto (Hungary) 2:15.67, 6 Hannah Miley (Britain) 2:16.27, 7 Kristyna Horska (Czech Republic) 2:16.45, 8 Sara Franceschi (Italy) 2:18.54.