22 Facts About Lorenzo Mora

Lorenzo Mora was born on 30 September 1998 and is a competitive Italian swimmer.

Lorenzo Mora is the Italian record holder in the short course 100 metre backstroke and 200 metre backstroke.

At the inaugural European Games in 2015, held in June in Baku, Azerbaijan, Lorenzo Mora competed in three individual events as a 16-year-old, placing thirteenth in the 50 metre backstroke, seventeenth in the 200 metre backstroke, and twenty-eighth in the 100 metre backstroke.

In December 2017, Lorenzo Mora competed at the year's European Short Course Championships in Copenhagen, Denmark, placing fourteenth in the semifinals of the 100 metre backstroke with a 51.46, twelfth with a time of 1:53.16 in the 200 metre backstroke, and twenty-seventh in the 50 metre backstroke with a time of 24.31 seconds.

On 1 April 2021, Lorenzo Mora won the gold medal in the 200 metre backstroke at the 2021 Italian National Spring Championships with a personal best time of 1:57.23, which was 0.27 seconds faster than the Olympic qualifying time of 1:57.50 for the 2020 Summer Olympics and 0.46 seconds faster than silver medalist Matteo Restivo.

Lorenzo Mora placed fourteenth overall in the semifinals with a time of 1:58.13.

At the 2021 European Short Course Championships, held in the Palace of Water Sports in Kazan, Russia, Lorenzo Mora placed sixth in the 50 metre backstroke final with a time of 23.19 seconds.

The finals relay, which did not include Lorenzo Mora, went on to place first in the final and all Italy relay members in the prelims and final won a gold medal for their efforts.

Lorenzo Mora won the 200 metre backstroke in the first match of the playoffs season with a time of 1:50.92, finishing over a second and a half before second and third place finishers Brodie Williams and Evgeny Rylov.

On day one of the sixth and final playoffs match of the year, Lorenzo Mora won the 200 metre backstroke in a time of 1:50.55 and scored 12.0 points for Team Iron, marking his second win in an individual event in the playoffs season.

Lorenzo Mora's team took second place over the Aqua Centurions by 1.5 points for the match, meaning had he not won the 200 metre backstroke, Team Iron would have finished in third place instead of second place.

Lorenzo Mora was named to the Italian roster in early December for the 2021 World Short Course Championships in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates starting two weeks after the roster announcement.

Lorenzo Mora's medals contributed to Italy ranking second in the country medal table, in terms of total number of medals, and third in terms of total number of gold medals, as well as Europe ranking number one in the continent medal table both in terms of total number of gold medals and in terms of total number of medals.

Lorenzo Mora won the bronze medal in the final with a time of 25.17 seconds.

Lorenzo Mora dropped over three seconds from his preliminaries time in the final, winning the gold medal with a time of 1:57.62.

On day two of the 2022 European Aquatics Championships, held in Rome, Lorenzo Mora ranked eleventh in the preliminaries of the 200 metre backstroke, qualifying for the semifinals with a time of 1:59.18.

Lorenzo Mora ranked fourth in the semifinals with a time of 1:57.62 and qualified for the final.

At the 48th Nico Sapio Trophy, conducted in November 2022 in Genoa in short course metres, Lorenzo Mora set a new Italian record in the 200 metre backstroke on the first day of competition, lowering the national mark to a 1:48.72 and winning the event by 5.88 seconds.

Lorenzo Mora capped the day off with an Italian record of 49.04 seconds in the final of the 100 metre backstroke, which earned him the silver medal in the event.

The sixth and final morning, Lorenzo Mora ranked fourth in a cluster of four swimmers to swim sub-1:50.00 times within 0.40 seconds of each other in the preliminaries of the 200 metre backstroke, advancing to the evening final with his time of 1:49.79.

Lorenzo Mora's medals contributed to a new record medal count of 16 total medals won by Italy at a single edition of the World Short Course Championships.

Lorenzo Mora followed up with a win in the 200 metre backstroke the next day in a time of 1:59.45.