Alessia Filippi

Alessia Filippi is a retired Italian swimmer, born in Rome on 23 June 1987, who excelled in backstroke, individual medley and middle distance freestyle races from 400 to 1500 metres. She won the 400 metre individual medley at the 2006 European Swimming Championships in Budapest, took bronze in the same championship and silver at the 2006 short course World Championships, and confirmed her European short course title in Helsinki that December. In 2008 she won the 400 metre individual medley and the 800 metre freestyle at the European Aquatics Championships in Eindhoven, set a European record in the long course 1500 metre freestyle, and on 12 December 2008 set a short course world record of 8:04.53 in the 800 metre freestyle. She won the 1500 metre freestyle at the 2009 World Championships in Rome and announced her retirement from competition on 12 October 2012.