Multiple World Champion Pellegrini Tests Positive for COVID-19

Federica Pellegrini of Italy wins 18th FINA World Swimming Championship of Women's 200m Freestyle at Nambu University Municipal Aquatics Center in Gwangju, South Korea, on July 24, 2019. Evgenia Novozhenina/Reuters

Multiple world swimming champion Federica Pellegrini has contracted COVID-19, the Italian said in a social media post on Thursday.

The 32-year-old, who intends to take part in her fifth and final Olympic Games in Tokyo next year, was due to leave for the International Swimming League event in Budapest but felt unwell after training on Wednesday.