PANZIERA Margherita

Date of Birth: 12 Aug 1995

Age: 25

Gender: Female

Place of birth: MONTEBELLUNA

Birth Country:

Italy

Place of residence : ROME

Residence Country:

Italy

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Swimming	Women's 100m Backstroke
	Women's 200m Backstroke
	Women's 4 x 100m Medley Relay ITA Italy	6

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Women's 100m Backstroke - Heat 4	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Women's 100m Backstroke Semifinal 1	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Women's 200m Backstroke - Heat 3	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Women's 200m Backstroke Semifinal 1	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Women's 4 x 100m Medley Relay - Heat 1	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Women's 4 x 100m Medley Relay Final	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

Olympic Games

Year	Location	200Back
2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	H (2:10.92)

World Championships

Year	Location	100Back	200Back	4x100Medley W	4x100Medley X
2019	Gwangju, KOR	SF (59.83)	4th (2:06.67)	4th (3:56.50)	6th
2017	Budapest, HUN	H (1:01.03)	SF (2:10.95)	8th (3:59.98)	8th
2015	Kazan, RUS	H (1:02.17)	SF (2:09.54)	-	-

European Championships

Year	Location	50Back	100Back	200Back	4x100Free W	4x200Free	4x100Medley W	4x100Medley X
2020	Budapest, HUN	SF (28.04)	2nd (59.01)	1st (2:06.08)	6th (3:39.08)	2nd (7:29.35)	3rd (3:56.30)	3rd (3:42.30)
2018	Glasgow, GBR	-	5th (59.71)	1st (2:06.18)	-	5th (7:32.37)	-	3rd (3:44.85)

Champions Swim Series overview - Three best ranks per season and event since 2019

Year	100Back	200Back
2019	1 x 2nd	2 x 1st

Champions Swim Series - Ten best performances since 2019

Rank	Year	Event	Location	Result
1	2019	200m Backstroke	Indianapolis, IN, USA	2:06.64
1	2019	200m Backstroke	Budapest, HUN	2:06.41
2	2019	100m Backstroke	Indianapolis, IN, USA	59.45

World Championships Short Course

Year	Location	100Back	200Back	4x50Medley W	4x200Free	4x100Medley
2018	Hangzhou, CHN	SF (58.31)	5th (2:02.50)	8th (1:46.44)	6th (7:43.18)	3rd (3:51.38)

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

Singing, watching films. (video.repubblica.it, 15 Mar 2019)

Occupation:

Police Athlete, Student

Business Administration

Partner Alessandro Baffi

Languages spoken:

English, Italian

CC Aniene [ITA] / GS Fiamme Oro [ITA]

Gianluca Belfiore [CC Aniene], ITA

Sporting relatives:

Her partner Alessandro Baffi has competed in swimming at national club level in Italy. (Alessandro Baffi Instagram profile, 08 May 2021; swimcloud.com, 03 Apr 2021)

2015 for Italy (tribunatreviso.gelocal.it, 22 Apr 2016)

She began swimming at age four. (lastampa.it, 26 Nov 2018)

She was encouraged to take up swimming by her mother, who was advised by a doctor that it would help with her daughter's recurring back problems. "At the age of 14 I preferred volleyball. All my friends did it and it was less demanding. But I was doing well in swimming, and my parents encouraged me to continue with the sport." (luissedintorni.it, 13 May 2019; corriere.it, 10 Dec 2018)

To win a medal at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (corriere.it, 16 Mar 2020)

She swims 13 kilometres a day, four times a week, and also does three gym sessions a week. (lachirico.it, 03 Oct 2020)

Setting a national record in the 200m backstroke at the 2018 Sette Colli Trophy in Rome, Italy. (swimswam.com, 03 Apr 2020)

Italian swimmers Federica Pellegrini and Alessia Filippi. (swimswam.com, 03 Apr 2020; corriere.it, 10 Dec 2018)

Philosophy:

"I never skip a day. Even if I'm sick I always try to go to the pool. I prefer to train below expectations but still give 100%, rather than stay in my room and relax. My daily commitment is to go beyond myself. I like the idea of having to sweat more than my opponents to be able to keep ahead of them." (rivistaundici.com, 12 Apr 2021)

General Interest

General
DEALING WITH ANXIETY
She admits that she has suffered from anxiety during her swimming career and that she also developed an eating disorder after the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. "I would get anxious. I would hyperventilate. Then, after Rio, I also began to suffer from eating disorders. I worked with a psychologist for a year, focusing on reducing anxiety. But the click came from within me. After that, good times arrived naturally." (corriere.it, 10 Dec 2018; ilmessaggero.it, 06 Dec 2018)

ILLNESS
She missed the 2020 national championships in Italy while recovering from COVID-19. From June to September in 2019, she also suffered from a virus which caused fatigue and affected her performance at the 2019 World Championships in Gwangju, Republic of Korea. (oasport.it, 28 Dec 2020; swimmingworldmagazine.com, 07 Jan 2020; ilmessaggero.it, 06 Dec 2018)

FURTHER STUDIES
She has studied sports economics and marketing at LUISS University in Rome, Italy. During her earlier degree in business administration, she wrote a thesis on the impact of the Olympic Games on the host city with references to Rome's bid for the 2024 Olympic Games. (ilmessaggero.it, 06 Dec 2018)

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Legend

:: Gold Medal Event
:: Silver Medal Event
:: Bronze Medal Event

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