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Youth Olympic Games

Year	Location	50Fly	100Fly	200Fly	200IndMed	4x100Free X	4x100Medley X
2018	Buenos Aires, ARG	9th (24.31)	8th (53.56)	H (2:01.66)	6th (2:04.20)	H (3:38.48)	H (4:03.37)

European Championships

Year	Location	50Fly	100Fly	200Fly	4x100Free M	4x200Free	4x100Medley M	4x100Medley X
2020	Budapest, HUN	H (DNS)	7th (51.45)	5th (1:55.18)	6th (3:13.41)	8th (DSQ)	H (DSQ)	5th (3:46.16)
2018	Glasgow, GBR	H (24.22)	H (53.37)	H (1:59.41)	-	-	H (3:39.21)	-

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

Watching films, going to the cinema, playing video games, travelling. (noeponti.ch, 15 Aug 2018)

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Nuoto Sport Locarno [Switzerland]

Massimo Meloni [national]

2018 for Switzerland (swimsportnews.de, 15 Sep 2020)

In early 2020 his training was troubled by a back pain. (Facebook page, 01 Mar 2020)

In 2018 he was diagnosed with glandular fever [mononucleosis]. (noeponti.ch, 15 Aug 2018; rsi.ch, 07 May 2018)

He began swimming at an early age and took up the sport competitively at age six when he joined Nuoto Sport Locarno in Switzerland. (noeponti.ch, 15 Aug 2018)

"I had a special feeling for being in the water since I was a small child: I began swimming without any assistance of flotation devices even before I was three years old. Nevertheless, I only began competitive swimming because of my sister, who had already begun the sport when she was eight years old. Before that, no one in my family had ever participated in swimming as a sport." (noeponti.ch, 15 Aug 2018)

To compete at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (noeponti.ch, 15 Aug 2018)

He was named 2018, 2019, and 2020 Young Hope at the Ticino Best Athletes Awards [Miglior Sportivo Ticinese] in Switzerland. (noeponti.ch, 09 Nov 2020; rsi.ch, 09 Nov 2020; rsi.ch, 04 Nov 2019)

He was the Swiss flag bearer at the opening ceremony of the 2018 Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires, Argentina. (noeponti.ch, 01 Sep 2019)