Background
Rosolino, Massimiliano was born on July 11, 1978 in Naples, Italy. Son of Salvatore and Caroline Rosolino.
Rosolino, Massimiliano was born on July 11, 1978 in Naples, Italy. Son of Salvatore and Caroline Rosolino.
Degree in Hotel Management, Naples, 1998.
Born in Santa Lucia, Naples to an Italian father, Salvatore, and an Australian mother, Carolyn, he moved to Australia at the age of three, coming back to Italy at six. Rosolino declared about his beginnings as a swimmer:
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 In 2002 he moved back to Australia to train with coach Ian Pope at the Melbourne Vicentre Club.
Rosolino represented Italy in all of the four editions of the Olympic Games since 1996. Rosolino is the most successful athlete in the history of Italian swimming, with an overall count of 60 international medals.
Rosolino"s personal bests are:
100 m freestyle LC: 49.35 r (2007.
World Championships in Melbourne). 200 m freestyle LC: 1:46.60 sf (2000, Italian record. Olympic Games in Sydney).
400 m freestyle LC: 3:43.40 (2000, European record.
Olympic Games in Sydney). 800 m freestyle LC: 7:50.40 (2005).
1500 m freestyle LC: 15:09.28 (2001). 50 m breaststroke LC: 29.29 (2004).
100 m breaststroke LC: 1:03.81 (2003).
200 m individual medley LC: 1:58.98 (2000. Olympic Games in Sydney). 400 m individual medley LC: 4:17.30 (2003.
World Championships in Barcelona).