PILATO Benedetta

World Championships

Year	Location	50Breast
2019	Gwangju, KOR	2nd (30.00)

European Championships

Year	Location	50Breast	100Breast
2020	Budapest, HUN	1st (29.35)	H (1:06.34)

World Junior Championships

Year	Location	50Breast	100Breast	4x100Medley W
2019	Budapest, HUN	1st (30.60)	6th (1:08.21)	4th (4:05.29)

Legend
Free - Freestyle, Back - Backstroke, Breast - Breaststroke, Fly - Butterfly, IndMed - Individual Medley, SF - Semifinal, H - Heats, DNS - Did Not Start, M - Men, W - Women, X - Mixed, DSQ - Disqualified, [Relay athlete without time] - Did not swim in final

Benny the Rocket, Benny. (Instagram profile 24 Feb 2021; swimswam.com, 24 Aug 2020)

Student

English, Italian

Vito D'Onghia [personal]

She began swimming at age two and competing at age four. "After the first race, and then the second and third, I got a taste for competing." (vanityfair.it, 18 Dec 2020)

Coach Vito D'Onghia persuaded her parents to let her become a competitive swimmer at age four. "My dad had swam at a competitive level and absolutely didn't want me to follow this path. He wanted me to play tennis but Vito came to my home one afternoon on his moped to talk to my parents so I could compete in meetings. In the end he managed to convince them." (lagazzettadelmezzogiorno.it, 17 Aug 2020)

To compete in the final of the women's 100m breaststroke at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (soasport.it, 26 Dec 2020)

She trains every day and goes to the gym three days a week. (iodonna.it, 14 Jan 2020)

Qualifying for the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo by winning the 100m breaststroke at the Italian national championships in December 2020. (swimmingpoolsdaily.com, 08 Feb 2021)

Coach Vito D'Onghia. (laringhiera.net, 26 Aug 2019)

"Age doesn't matter unless you're a cheese." (Instagram profile, 18 Jan 2021)