Italy competed at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships in Shanghai, China between July 16 and 31, 2011.

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Gold	Federica Pellegrini	Swimming	Women's 400m Freestyle	24 July
Gold	Federica Pellegrini	Swimming	Women's 200m Freestyle	27 July
Gold	Stefano Tempesti Amaurys Perez Niccolo Gitto Pietro Figlioli Alex Giorgetti Maurizio Felugo Niccolo Figari Valentino Gallo Christian Presciutti Deni Fiorentini Matteo Aicardi Arnaldo Deserti Giacomo Pastorino	Water Polo	Men's Tournament	30 July
Silver	Martina Grimaldi	Open Water Swimming	Women's 10km	19 July
Silver	Fabio Scozzoli	Swimming	Men's 100m Breaststroke	25 July
Silver	Fabio Scozzoli	Swimming	Men's 50m Breaststroke	27 July
Silver	Luca Dotto	Swimming	Men's 50m Freestyle	30 July
Bronze	Tania Cagnotto	Diving	Women's 1m Springboard	19 July
Bronze	Alice Franco	Open Water Swimming	Women's 25km	23 July

Italy has qualified 9 athletes in diving.^[1]

Men

Athlete	Event	Preliminary		Semifinals		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Tommaso Rinaldi	Men's 1m Springboard	332.65	23			did not advance
Michele Benedetti	Men's 3m Springboard	384.60	26	did not advance
Tommaso Marconi	Men's 3m Springboard	391.05	20	did not advance
Francesco Dell Uomo	Men's 10m Platform	355.40	27	did not advance
Maicol Verzotto	Men's 10m Platform	342.15	28	did not advance
Michele Benedetti Tommaso Rinaldi	Men's 3m Synchro Springboard	372.36	9 Q			381.63	10 Q
Francesco Dell Uomo Maicol Verzotto	Men's 10m Synchro Platform	361.86	13			did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Preliminary		Semifinals		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Maria Elisabetta Marconi	Women's 1m Springboard	264.25	6 Q			290.15	4
Tania Cagnotto	Women's 1m Springboard	253.15	12 Q			295.45
	Women's 3m Springboard	298.50	13 Q	299.70	12 Q	313.45	9
Francesca Dallape	Women's 3m Springboard	293.50	16 Q	275.00	18	did not advance
Noemi Batki	Women's 10m Platform	251.35	26	did not advance
Tania Cagnotto Francesca Dallape	Women's 3m Synchro Springboard	288.30	3 Q			297.60	6

Men^[2]

Athlete	Event	Final
		Time	Position
Nicola Bolzonello	Men's 5km	56:24.3	4
Simone Ruffini	Men's 5km	56:20.0	9
Luca Ferretti	Men's 10km	1:55:45.2	28
Valerio Cleri	Men's 10km	1:54:41.2	11
	Men's 25km	DNF
Edoardo Stochino	Men's 25km	DNF

Women^[3]

Athlete	Event	Final
		Time	Position
Rachele Bruni	Women's 5km	1:00:42.2	4
Alice Franco	Women's 5km	1:00:50.7	14
	Women's 25km	5:29:30.8
Giorgia Consiglio	Women's 10km	DNF
Martina Grimaldi	Women's 10km	2:01:59.9
	Women's 25km	5:29:36.2	5

Mixed

Athlete	Event	Final
		Time	Position
Nicola Bolzonello Rachele Bruni Luca Ferretti	Team	58:00.5	4

Italy qualified 26 swimmers.^[4]

Men

Athlete	Event	Heats		Semifinals		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Marco Orsi	Men's 50m Freestyle	22.16	8 Q	22.13	11	did not advance
Luca Dotto	Men's 50m Freestyle	22.25	12 Q	21.97	4 Q	21.90
	Men's 100m Freestyle	48.79	13 Q	48.44	7 Q	48.24	7
Filippo Magnini	Men's 100m Freestyle	48.36	3 Q	48.50	11	did not advance
Gianluca Maglia	Men's 200m Freestyle	1:48.54	18	did not advance
Marco Belotti	Men's 200m Freestyle	1:48.66	20	did not advance
	Men's 50m Butterfly	24.19	23	did not advance
Samuel Pizzetti	Men's 400m Freestyle	3:47.12	9			did not advance
	Men's 800m Freestyle	7:51.59	9			did not advance
	Men's 1500m Freestyle	14:58.30	8 Q			15:15.81	7
Federico Colbertaldo	Men's 800m Freestyle	8:01.10	17			did not advance
Gregorio Paltrinieri	Men's 1500m Freestyle	15:22.03	19			did not advance
Mirco de Tora	Men's 50m Backstroke	25.28	12 Q	25.40	12	did not advance
	Men's 100m Backstroke	54.47	19	did not advance
Sebastiano Ranfagni	Men's 200m Backstroke	1:58.26	12 Q	1:57.96	6 Q	1:57.49	7
Mattia Pesce	Men's 100m Breaststroke	1:01.25	20	did not advance
	Men's 200m Breaststroke	2:16.67	35	did not advance
Fabio Scozzoli	Men's 50m Breaststroke	27.84	10 Q	27.37	4 Q	27.17
	Men's 100m Breaststroke	1:00.14	5 Q	59.83	3 Q	59.42
Lorenzo Benatti	Men's 100m Butterfly	53.38	29	did not advance
Federico Turrini	Men's 200m IM	2:04.35	31	did not advance
	Men's 400m IM	4:19.50	19			did not advance
Luca Martin	Men's 400m IM	4:19.48	18			did not advance
Luca Dotto Marco Orsi Michele Santucci Filippo Magnini	Men's 4 × 100 m Freestyle Relay	3:13.61	3 Q			3:12.39	4
Gianluca Maglia Filippo Magnini Marco Belotti Samuel Pizzetti	Men's 4 × 200 m Freestyle Relay	7:12.18	5 Q			7:12.26	8
Mirco Di Tora Fabio Scozzoli Marco Belotti Luca Dotto	Men's 4 × 100 m Medley Relay	3:36.74	11			did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Heats		Semifinals		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Federica Pellegrini	Women's 100m Freestyle	DNS		did not advance
	Women's 200m Freestyle	1:56.87	2 Q	1:56.42	2 Q	1:55.58
	Women's 400m Freestyle	4:04.76	1 Q			4:01.97
	Women's 800m Freestyle	DNS				did not advance
Martina Rita Caramignoli	Women's 1500m Freestyle	16:23.75	13			did not advance
Elena Gemo	Women's 50m Backstroke	29.12	24	did not advance
	Women's 100m Backstroke	1:01.62	20	did not advance
	Women's 50m Butterfly	26.86	17	did not advance
Chiara Boggiatto	Women's 100m Breaststroke	1:09.50	23	did not advance
	Women's 200m Breaststroke	2:27.84	15 Q	2:28.14	16	did not advance
Ilaria Bianchi	Women's 100m Butterfly	1:00.36	34	did not advance
Alessia Polieri	Women's 200m Butterfly	2:13.65	27	did not advance
	Women's 200m IM	2:18.69	27	did not advance
	Women's 400m IM	4:45.26	18			did not advance
Stefania Pirozzi	Women's 400m IM	4:48.40	25			did not advance
Alice Mizzau Federica Pellegrini Alice Nesti Renata Spagnolo	Women's 4 × 200 m Freestyle Relay	8:02.69	13			did not advance
Elena Gemo Chiara Boggiatto Ilaria Bianchi Federica Pellegrini	Women's 4 × 100 m Medley Relay	4:04.74	14			did not advance

Italy has qualified 12 athletes in synchronised swimming.^[5]

Women

Athlete	Event	Preliminary		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Linda Cerruti	Solo Technical Routine	88.400	9 Q	88.300	9
	Solo Free Routine	89.610	7 Q	89.950	7
Giulia Lapi Mariangela Perrupato	Duet Technical Routine	89.900	7 Q	90.100	7
	Duet Free Routine	90.860	7 Q	89.800	7
Elisa Bozzo Beatrice Callegari Camilla Cattaneo Costanza Fiorentini Manila Flamini Mariangela Perrupato Benedetta Re Sara Sgarzi	Team Technical Routine	90.600	7 Q	90.700	7
Elisa Bozzo Beatrice Callegari Constanza Fiorentini Manila Flamini Giulia Lapi Mariangela Perrupato Benedetta Re Sara Sgarzi	Team Free Routine	91.090	7 Q	90.870	7
Elisa Bozzo Beatrice Callegari Francesca Deidda Costanza Fiorentini Manila Flamini Giulia Lapi Mariangela Perrupato Benedetta Re Sara Sgarzi Cristina Tempera	Free Routine Combination	90.650	6 Q	90.550	6

Team Roster ^[6]

Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Italy	3	3	0	0	32	12	+20	6
Germany	3	2	0	1	31	22	+9	4
United States	3	1	0	2	32	20	+12	2
South Africa	3	0	0	3	12	53	–41	0

July 18, 2011 19:40	Report[dead link‍]	Italy	17–1	South Africa	Shanghai Oriental Sports Center, Shanghai Attendance: 450 Referees: Balfanvayev (KAZ), Menedez (CUB)
		Score by quarters: 5–0, 3–0, 5–0, 4–1
		Deserti 4	Goals	Kyte 1

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July 20, 2011 17:00	Report[dead link‍]	United States	5–8	Italy	Shanghai Oriental Sports Center, Shanghai Attendance: 650 Referees: Margeta (SLO), Tulga (TUR)
		Score by quarters: 1–2, 1–2, 1–3, 2–1
		Alexander 2	Goals	Gitto, Felugo 2

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July 22, 2011 13:30	Report[dead link‍]	Italy	7–6	Germany	Shanghai Oriental Sports Center, Shanghai Attendance: 600 Referees: Borrell (ESP), Stavridis (GRE)
		Score by quarters: 2–3, 1–2, 2–1, 2–0
		Aicardi 3	Goals	Real, Ploitze 2

July 26, 2011 21:00	Report[dead link‍]	Italy	10–6	Spain	Shanghai Oriental Sports Center, Shanghai Attendance: 650 Referees: Margeta (SLO), Naumov (RUS)
		Score by quarters: 2–1, 3–3, 3–1, 2–1
		Figlioli 4	Goals	six players 1

July 28, 2011 21:00	Report[dead link‍]	Croatia	8–9	Italy	Shanghai Oriental Sports Center, Shanghai Attendance: 1,200 Referees: Borrell (ESP), Koganov (AZE)
		Score by quarters: 0–1, 1–2, 3–5, 4–1
		Bošković 3	Goals	Giorgetti 3

July 30, 2011 21:00	Report[dead link‍]	Serbia	7–8	Italy	Shanghai Oriental Sports Center, Shanghai Attendance: 2,000 Referees: Tulga (TUR), Koganov (AZE)
		Score by quarters: 0–1, 2–0, 1–4, 3–1  OT: 1–2
		Filipović 3	Goals	Aicardi 3

Team Roster^[7]

Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Italy	3	3	0	0	40	15	+25	6
China	3	2	0	1	50	21	+29	4
Cuba	3	0	1	2	19	40	−21	1
South Africa	3	0	1	2	16	49	−33	1

July 17, 2011 17:40	Report[dead link‍]	Italy	12–4	Cuba	Shanghai Oriental Sports Center, Shanghai Attendance: 300 Referees: Juhas (HUN) Wengenroth (SUI)
		Score by quarters: 4–1, 2–1, 3–0, 3–2
		three players 3	Goals	Hernendez Consuegra, Gutierrez More 2

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July 19, 2011 17:00	Report[dead link‍]	Italy	18–2	South Africa	Shanghai Oriental Sports Center, Shanghai Attendance: 400 Referees: Peris (CRO), Rustamova (UZB)
		Score by quarters: 4–2, 5–0, 5–0, 4–0
		Casanova 4	Goals	Schooling, Harris 1

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July 21, 2011 21:00	Report[dead link‍]	Italy	10–9	China	Shanghai Oriental Sports Center, Shanghai Attendance: 700 Referees: Koganov (AZE), Flahive (AUS)
		Score by quarters: 4–2, 2–1, 3–3, 1–3
		Bianconi 3	Goals	Wang Yi 3

July 25, 2011 16:40	Report[dead link‍]	Italy	14–12	Australia	Shanghai Oriental Sports Center, Shanghai Attendance: 550 Referees: Juhaz (HUN), Borrell (ESP)
		Score by quarters: 0–1, 4–0, 4–6, 0–1  OT: 1–1 Pen 5–3
		Bianconi 4	Goals	four players 2

July 27, 2011 16:50	Report[dead link‍]	Greece	14–11	Italy	Shanghai Oriental Sports Center, Shanghai Attendance: 950 Referees: Tulga (TUR), Borrell (ESP)
		Score by quarters: 3–2, 5–3, 3–3, 3–3
		three players 3	Goals	Bianconi, Rambaldi Guidasci 3

July 29, 2011 16:00	Report[dead link‍]	Russia	8–7	Italy	Shanghai Oriental Sports Center, Shanghai Attendance: 1,000 Referees: Juhaz (HUN), Rotsart (USA)
		Score by quarters: 4–0, 2–1, 2–6, 0–0
		Belyaeva 3	Goals	Casanova, Bianconi 2