 If you thought "Schwarzenegger"
was hard to spell wait till you meet Massimiliano. But it's a name worth remembering
because this 6'4" (1.92m) male model handsome Olympic swimmer is only the second
Italian ever to win an Olympic gold medal, which he did in the 2000 Sydney games.
According to Wikipedia he is the most successful athlete in the history of Italian
swimming with 60 international medals. He was born in Naples, Italy with
an Italian father and Australian mother. Over his life he has moved back and forth
between the two countries.
Unfortunately his website, which is his last name,
appears to have been bought out by a cheesy web developer. Looks like MR didn't
renew his website domain dues on time. This is easy to forget to do. And the more
people you get going to your website the juicier a target it is to be bought out
the minute you forget to renew it. His page has been replaced with a lame search
engine which does nothing but try to keep you on that page and away from your search
quest. The best solution is to buy your website domain name for as long a period
of time as you can. That gives it higher status with Google too.
Born in
Naples (Santa Lucia) of an Italian father, Salvatore, and Australian
mother, Carolyn, he moved to Australia at the age of three, coming back
to Italy at six.
"I learned to float by sheer chance at the age
of 4. Instead of the common arm floating bands, they made me swim with a
headboard. Unfortunately it had a hole, and by the time I finally got
out of the small and deep pool, the headboard had drowned... The first
real swimming course I took was when I was 6 years old, and after that,
lesson by lesson, I got to the pre-competition level. I always had a
hard life, even though I was physically well-built, I always had to
fight to become number 1, and even though I won a lot of races, I
remember every race with emotion: the first regional championships, the
national ones, the Young Europeans, and of course all the stomach aches
I had. "
Rosolino represented Italy in all of the four editions
of the Olympic Games since 1996. At the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, he
became the second Olympic champion ever in the history of Italian
swimming as he won the gold medal in the 200 m individual medley
(1:58.98, then Olympic and national record). He won two more medals: a
silver medal in the 400 m freestyle setting the current European record
(3:43.40) behind Ian Thorpe, and a bronze medal in the 200 m freestyle
(1:46.65) behind Pieter van den Hoogenband and Ian Thorpe. At the 2004
Olympic Games in Athens, Rosolino won a bronze medal with the Italian
team in the 4�200 m freestyle relay.
Rosolino is the most
successful athlete in the history of Italian swimming, with an overall
count of 60 international medals. He became world champion in the 200 m
individual medley at the 2001 World Championships in Fukuoka. He also
won 3 silver medals and a bronze medal through 5 editions of the World
Long Course Championships. He won a gold medal (4�200 m freestyle
relay), 2 silver medals and 7 bronze medals at the World Short Course
Championships; since 1995 he won 21 medals at the European LC
Championships and 20 medals at the European Short Course Swimming
Championships, becoming European champion 14 times (7 long course, 7
short course).
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