Francesca Segat (born January 21, 1983 in Vittorio Veneto

Vittorio Veneto

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, Province of Treviso

Province of Treviso

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) is a butterfly swimmer from Italy

Italy

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, who won the silver medal in the 200 m butterfly at the European Short Course Swimming Championships 2003.

Francesca Segat also won the silver medal at the World SC Championship in Shanghai in 2006 in the 200 m butterfly with the time of 2:05.91 and the silver medal at the European Championship 2006 in Budapest in the same distance in 2:08.96.

She resides in Rome, and is trained by Andrea Palloni and Claudio Rossetto.