He tried taste already when he was small. It went down to water to grab handles of shells, resurfaced with a large smile, the eyes of a celestial clear wide open for amazement. Immerse he liked it, but he certainly could not yet imagine that he would become his life. After the holidays by the sea he returned to his Rome, where he was born in 1992. And along the way he thought back to that dimension where the sound went out and remained alone with yourself. Maybe it’s in those moments there that Alessia Zecchini He began to decide who he wanted to be.
Childhood in the pool of a predestined
Sports club is the asd “Blue Sea Apnea”. Here Alessia completes her first immersion course at thirteen, immediately showing higher physical and mental qualities than those of her peers. But the federal rules are stringent. It is not possible to compete at that age. He will have to wait to do eighteen to do seriously, but in the meantime Maurizio Bellodi begins to convene it in the national team to train, feeding his “talent project”. An aquatic gym that will change the life of the Zecchini.
The first medals and record incetta
Alessia participates in her first Italian championship in Turin, in 2011, immediately tearing a silver. Then he places himself well in the 2012 European Championships, in Antalya, conquering a quarter and sixth place. His is an unstoppable path. A year later you take the gold medal at the World Cup in Kazan, in the specialty of the static apnea, and obtains other medals in each specialty played. They are only the first acute of a career that, during the decade, will become stellar: scrolling its palmares, today, 17 Olympic golds and 38 world records emerge.
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The biggest challenge: in the Filippine abyss
Zecchini’s career advances tirelessly, breaking primates. And, at some point, it is clear how the challenge has moved on to another level. Because the competitors are not lacking, but it is as if you were to constantly overcome herself. So here it is, on a day of late May, off the Philippines, Camotes Islands. The competition is the Aida Oceanquest Filippine: it is necessary to go down deep in constant set -up, with the single -line. Alessia trained for a long time to do it. With his lean and toned physique, the metropolitan legends that would require huge chest speakers to tick it. His lung capacity is directly connected to his mental seal. So he immerses himself, Zecchini, reaching until that fateful point in which the ocean ends up rejecting you and accepts you, on the contrary, he sucks you. Fifty meters, sixty, seventy. He arrives at Cento. Centodieci. It already seems an absurd feat. The strength of those water columns also compresses thoughts, but she is used to it. Continue to go down. One hundred and fifteen meters. One hundred and twenty. One hundred and twentytry. None had ever come to this point.
In total, counting the ascent, it is under water for 3 minutes and 51 seconds. Becoming in all respects The deepest woman in history. And by punishing a new formidable world record. Not bad for one who had started looking for shells.