World Aquatics announced two charismatic personalities as its open water swimming ambassadors at the 2025 World Aquatics Championships to kick off in Singapore on Monday, July 10th.
Olympic champion and four-time world champion Sharon van Rouwendaal (31, Netherlands, MSF bio here, World Aquatics bio here, @svrouwendaal) and Olympian and model Alice Dearing (28, Great Britain, MSF bio here, World Aquatics bio here, @alicedearingx) will cheer on 69 women who will be competing in the 10 km race on Day One of the World Championship schedule.
Van Rouwendaal had an incredible year in 2024 as she won the 5 km and 10 km World Championships in Doha as well as winning her second Olympic 10K Marathon Swim gold medal in the Seine at the 2024 Paris Olympics. While she will not be competing in Singapore, the 31-year-old will be representing the sport and serving as an ambassador. Her fellow training partner, Moesha Johnson (27, Australia, MSF bio here, World Aquatics bio here, @swimmer_moe) is on her own victory streak in 2025 and is considered the gold medal favorite in the 10 km race on Monday.
Dearing was the first black woman to become a British swimming Olympian at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Then, she really turned on the jets and became busy. She later joined the Executive Committee of the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame is a passionate advocate for raising awareness of water-safety and drowning prevention, and encouraging aquatics participation in African, Caribbean and Asian communities in the UK.
Women’s 10 km Start List
- Alexandra Mejia Gallego, 19 Andorra
- Candela Gordanino, 21, Argentina
- Britta Schwengle, 21, Aruba
- Chelsea Gubecka, 26, Australia
- Moesha Johnson, 27 Australia
- Ana Marcela Cunha, 33, Brazil
- Viviane Jungblut, 29, Brazil
- Emma Finlin, 20, Canada
- Yaxin Liu, 26, China
- Kexin Wang, 20, China
- Alena Benesova, 27 Czech Republic
- Christina Duran, 20, Dominican Republic
- Isabella Hernandez, 20, Dominican Republic
- Ana Abad, 21, Ecuador
- Danna Martinez, 19, Ecuador
- Dayana Melendez, 18, El Salvador
- Maria de Valdes, 26, Spain
- Angela Martinez Guillen, 21, Spain
- Louna Kasvio, 19, Finland
- Leonie-Sarah Josephine Tenzer, 19, Finland
- Ines Delacroix, 22, France
- Caroline Laure Jouisse, 31, France
- Lea Boy, 25, Germany
- Jeannette Spiwoks, 26, Germany
- Georgia Makri, 19, Greece
- Maria Porres, 22, Guatemala
- Yanci Vanegas, 22, Guatemala
- Pac Tung Nikita Lam, 24, Hong Kong
- Tsz Yin Nip, 25, Hong Kong
- Janka Juhasz, 25, Hungary
- Viktoria Mihalyvari-Farkas, 21, Hungary
- Ashmitha Chandra, 19, India
- Diksha Sandip Yadav, 19, India
- Ofek Adir, 19, Israel
- Barbara Pozzobon, 31, Italy
- Ginevra Taddeucci, 28, Italy
- Airi Ebina, 23, Japan
- Ichika Kajimoto, 21, Japan
- Mariya Fedotova, 26, Kazakhstan
- Darya Pushko, 21, Kazakhstan
- Jiyeon Hwang, 18, South Korea
- Sueah Kim, 18, South Korea
- Malak Meqdar, 18, Morocco
- Paulina Alanis Hernandez, 20, Mexico
- Sharon Guerrero Cho, 19, Mexico
- Lisa Pou, 26, Monaco
- Micheline Gabrielle Bathfield, 19, Mauritius
- Margarita Ershova, 19, Neutral Athletes B
- Ekaterina Sorokina, 24, Neutral Athletes B
- Cielo Peralta, 18, Paraguay
- Maria Fernanda Arellanos, 16, Peru
- Klaudia Tarasiewicz, 21, Poland
- Mafalda Rosa, 21, Portugal
- Alondra Itzel Quiles, 20, Puerto Rico
- Callan Lotter, 19, South Africa
- Catherine van Rensburg, 21, South Africa
- Li-Shan Chantal Liew, 26, Singapore
- Kate Ona, 17, Singapore
- Spela Perse, 28, Slovakia
- Chonpasanop Chatwuti, 14, Thailand
- Kamonchanok Kwanmuang, 20, Thailand
- Jia-Shien Lin, 17, Chinese Taipei
- Yu-Wen Teng, 28, Chinese Taipei
- Su Inal, 15, Turkey
- Pilar Canedo, 21, Uruguay
- Mariah Denigan, 22, USA
- Brinkleigh Hansen, 15, USA
- Ruthseli Guadalupe Aponte Teran, 26, Venezuela
- Daniela Chinquinquira Suarez Correa, 16, Venezuela
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