RESTIVO Matteo

World Championships

Year	Location	200Back
2019	Gwangju, KOR	SF (1:58.12)
2017	Budapest, HUN	H (1:58.37)

European Championships

Year	Location	100Back	200Back	4x100Medley X
2020	Budapest, HUN	H (55.69)	H (1:59.45)	-
2018	Glasgow, GBR	-	3rd (1:56.29)	3rd

World Championships Short Course

Year	Location	200Back
2018	Hangzhou, CHN	H (1:51.58)

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

Athlete, Student

Medicine - University of Florence, Italy

English, Italian

CS Carabinieri [ITA] / RN Florentia [ITA]

Paolo Palchetti

He took up swimming at age three in Lignano, Italy. He started to swim seriously at age 12. (liceocoperniconews.it, 30 Apr 2017)

His parents saw his passion for water at the beach and introduced him to swimming. (liceocoperniconews.it, 30 Apr 2017)

To compete at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (nuoto.com, 02 Apr 2020)

US swimmers Michael Phelps and Caeleb Dressel, Japanese swimmer Ryosuke Irie, Russian swimmer Kliment Kolesnikov. (nuoto.com, 02 Apr 2020)

"In the pre-race I tend to use a method that I have built up over the years and that helps me not to feel the pressure, whatever the race. Basically I divide the day into many small moments in which I have to focus on what I'm doing, like brushing my teeth or something else. In this way I don't think about the race and I don't get anxious." (nuoto.com, 02 Apr 2020)

"Believe in the feasibility and beauty of your dreams so you will have the determination to achieve them." (liceocoperniconews.it, 30 Apr 2017)