Alice Franco|Ana Marcela Cunha|Angela Maurer|Christine Jennings|Eva Fabian|FINA World Championships|Olga Beresnyeva|Silvie Rybárová

With the advent of the 10 km marathon swim as an Olympic event in 2008, the 25 km marathon took a hit. For the worse. While the world’s fastest open water swimmers focused on the 10 km, the number of the fast swimmer tackling the longer 25 km races fell. That era is over. Judging…