Valerio Cleri

Personal information

Full name

Valerio Cleri

Nationality

Born

19 June 1981
Palestrina

Height

1.77 m (5 ft 9 ¹⁄₂ in)

Sport

Strokes

Medal record

Men's Swimming
Representing Italy
World Championships
	2009 Rome	25km Open Water
World Open Water Championships
	2010 Roberval	10km Open Water
	2010 Roberval	25km Open Water
European Aquatics Championships
	2010 Budapest	25km Open Water
	2010 Budapest	10km Open Water

Valerio Cleri (born 19 June 1981 in Palestrina) is a freestyle swimmer from Italy, who primarily competes in open water swimming.

Career

Cleri won a gold medal in the 25 km open water race at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships in Rome. At the 2010 FINA World Open Water Swimming Championships in Canada he won the gold medal over the 10 km distance. At the 2010 European Aquatics Championships in Budapest, Hungary he won silver medal over the 10 km distance and gold medal over the 25 km distance. He competed at the 10 km swimming marathon at the 2008 Summer Olympics (finishing fourth) and at the 2012 Summer Olympics (finishing 17th).^[1]^[2]

Awards
Preceded by Thomas Lurz	World Open Water Swimmer of the Year 2010	Succeeded by Thomas Lurz and Spyridon Gianniotis
Preceded by First award	FINA Open Water Swimmer of the Year 2010	Succeeded by Thomas Lurz

European champions in men's 25 km open water swimming

1991: Christof Wandratsch (GER) 1993: Dario Taraboi (ITA) 1995: Christof Wandratsch (GER) 1997: Aleksey Akatyev (RUS) 1999: Aleksey Akatyev (RUS) 2000: Stéphane Lecat (FRA) 2002: Yuri Kudinov (RUS) 2004: Yevgeniy Kochkarov (RUS) 2006: Gilles Rondy (FRA) 2010: Valerio Cleri (ITA) 2014: Axel Reymond (FRA) 2016: Axel Reymond (FRA)

LEN European Championships

Disciplines
of the European
Aquatics Championships

Diving	1926 1927 1931 1934 1938 1947 1950 1954 1958 1962 1966 1970 1974 1977 1981 1983 1985 1987 1989 1991 1993 1995 1997 1999 2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 Medalists

Open water swimming	1991 1993 1995 1997 1999 2000 2002 2004 2006 2010 2014 Medalists

Swimming (50 m)	1926 1927 1931 1934 1938 1947 1950 1954 1958 1962 1966 1970 1974 1977 1981 1983 1985 1987 1989 1991 1993 1995 1997 1999 2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010 2012 2014 2016 Men's medalists Women's medalists

Synchronised swimming	1974 1977 1981 1983 1985 1987 1989 1991 1993 1995 1997 1999 2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010 2012 2014 2016 Medalists

Water polo	1926 1927 1931 1934 1938 1947 1950 1954 1958 1962 1966 1970 1974 1977 1981 1983 1985 1987 1989 1991 1993 1995 1997

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