Federica Pellegrini, the 2008 Olympic and a four-time world champion, claimed a 200m freestyle silver medal at the European Championships on Thursday, 11 years after her first continental success.

At 32, Pellegrini has her sights set on a fifth Olympics in Tokyo in two months’ time.

On Thursday, however, it was 21-year-old Barbora Seemanova of the Czech Republic who denied her the chance to claim a fifth European gold in the distance.

Seemanova won in a time of 1min 56.27sec with the Italian 0.2sec behind.

Britain’s Freya Anderson, in 1:56.42, took bronze edging out France’s defending champion Charlotte Bonnet.

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