Overview

• Italy closed the championships with bronzes for Filippo Pelati in the men’s solo free and the Pelati–Ruggiero mixed technical duet, plus silver for Lucrezia Ruggiero and Enrica Piccoli in the women’s duet free.
• Pelati and Ruggiero achieved the highest difficulty coefficient (35.1500) in the mixed technical routine, underlining the team’s drive to elevate routine complexity.
• On the final day, Italy’s mixed duet free and national acrobatic teams each finished fourth, missing bronze by narrow margins in Friday’s finals.
• Newly formed partnerships have quickly matured from European competition to world-stage success, reflecting growing depth across Italy’s squad.
• Having built on its first world medals since 2009, Italy will now focus on boosting execution consistency and further raising routine difficulty to vie for gold.