Italian Olympic swimmer Filippo Magnini saves drowning newly-wed

Filippo Magnini (37), the Italian Olympic swimmer rescued a struggling tourist who was drowning off Sardinia on Sunday. Magnini kept the tourist afloat until help arrived.

Magnini, while relaxing with his girlfriend Giorgia Palmas have heard a cry for help and immediately moved for action. He have rescued the newly wed Andrea Benedetto, who was married his boyfriend just two days earlier, as per BBC reports.

“I just did what I had to, The bather was in a lot of trouble. ” said Magnini after the incident. “He was quite frightened, he was really stuck and had swallowed some seawater”, he added.

About the incident he said, “When I reached him he wasn’t even able to speak, and it wasn’t easy to lift him on to the raft, so we laid him on an airbed that some other bathers had nearby”.

Reports said that a doctor had treated Mr Benedetto at the scene and was taken immediately to the hospital. There occurred no life-threatening conditions.

Apart from the 2004 bronze, Magnini had also won the world championship in the 100-meter freestyle in both 2005 and 2007.

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