101 men were entered in the World Aquatics Open Water Swimming World Cup in Ibiza, Spain. 98 men stood on the starting pontoon yesterday.

24 swimmers did not finish. Another 7 swimmers were over the time limit. So over 30% of the field either did not complete the 10 km race or did not finish within the allotted time.

That kind of attrition rate in a World Cup race has never occurred before.

What happened?

Conditions changed. For the worse.

It was choppy – real choppy and cold. At 18.6°C, it was colder than the swimmers expected or prepared for.

It was unexpected and took most of the field by surprise despite national team spots for the upcoming European Championship and Pan Pacific Championship being contested among teammates.

But 2024 Paris bronze medalist David Betlehem (@betlehemdavid, World Aquatics bio here) came out of top, proving his LA28 podium potential in the second World Cup series race of the 2026 season. He said, “I’m very happy with this win. It’s my second individual World Cup victory after Golfo Aranci last year, so to do it again here means a lot. These conditions made drafting less effective. You couldn’t really relax at any point – you had to keep pushing the whole time because of the chop. It became a race of strength and consistency.”

World Cup 10 km Results

1. David Betlehem, 22, Hungary 1:52:39.90
2. Sacha Velly, 21, France 1:52:44.20
3. Andrea Filadelli, 25, Italy 1:52:45.00
4. Marcello Guidi, 28, Italy 1:52:47.90
5. Pasquale Giodano, 22, Italy 1:52:51.00
6. Marc-Antoine Olivier, 29, France 1:52:53.20
7. Ivan Giovannoni, 24, Italy 1:52:54.70
8. Kristof Rasovszky, 29, Hungary 1:52:55.20
9. Dylan Gravley, 23, USA 1:52:56.20
10. Victor Moreno, 19, Brazil 1:52:56.40
11. Domenico Acerenza, 31, Italy 1:52:56.50
12. Vincenzo Caso, 20, Italy 1:52:57.00
13. Martin Straka, 25, Czech Republic 1:52:57.80
14. Logan Fontaine, 27, France 1:52:58.10
15. Ivan Puskovitch, 25, USA 1:52:58.90
16. Giuseppel Lario, 22, Italy 1:52:59.40
17. Ethan Parker, 19, France 1:53:01.40
18. Nicholas Sloman 28, Australia 1:53:02.70
19. Gregorio Paltrinieri, 31, Italy 1:53:03.70
20. Mario Mendez Puga, 22, Spain 1:53:07.30
21. Mateo Garcia Castro, 21, Spain 1:53:09.50
22. Joey Tepper, 23, USA 1:53:13.30
23. Matheus Melecchi, 20, Brazil 1:53:40.60
24. Joshua Brown, 23, USA 1:53:49.40
25. Hunor Kovacs-Seres, 20, Hungary 1:53:52.00
26. Nandor Nagy, 20, Hungary 1:53:52.30
27. Luca Karl, 23, Austria 1:53:56.30
28. Emile Mesmacque, 19, France 1:53:59.20
29. Christian Schreiber, 23 1:53:59.60
30. Florian Wellbrock, 28, Germany 1:54:01.60
31. Kyle Lee, 24, Australia 1:54:03.40
32. Bernardo Gavioli, 21, Brazil 1:54:03.90
33. Paul Niederberger, 22, Switzerland 1:54:05.00
34. Mate Karpati, 17, Hungary 1:54:05.40
35. Euan Iney, 22, Australia 1:54:10.40
36. Luiz Felipe Oureiro, 22, Brazil 1:54:25.40
37. Taishin MInamide, 30, Japan 1:54:27.50
38. Kaito Tsujimori, 20, Japan1:54:54.60
39. Leonardo Brandt, 20, Brazil 1:55:16.20
40. Colin Jacobs, 17, USA 1:56:00.20
41. Nolan Carrel, 20, Switzerland 1:56:05.90
42. Joan Macario Molina, 20, Spain 1:57:24.60
43. Federico Mazzeo, 22, Italy 1:59:48.30
44. Benjamin Wainman, 22, Australia 2:01:13.00
45. Kilian Carrel, 22, Switzerland 2:01:27.80
46. Francisco Amaral, 23, Portugal 2:01:28.10
47. Bartosz Kapala, 19, Poland 2:01:38.10
48. Riku Ezawa, 22, Japan 2:02:00.10
49. Franco Ivo Cassini, 32, Argentina 2:02:09.20
50. Kaito Tabuchi, 23, Japan 2:03:07.80
51. Denis Borovka, 20, Czech Republic 2:03:21.00
52. Jakub Gabriel, 19, Slovakia 2:03:21.30
53. Adrian Gustavo Ywanagapapi, 21, Peru 2:03:24.70
54. Unai Alvarez Gonzalez, 19, Spain 2:03:26.10
55. Dylan Hunter Murphy, 20, Australia 2:03:26.90
56. Zsigmond Pittlik, 18, Hungary 2:03:28.80
57. Santiago Aviles Zhuravlev, 22, Spain 2:03:34.90
58. Dogukan Ulac, 29, Turkey 2:03:37.40
59. Herminio Fernan Dez Alperi, 17, Spain 2:03:45.00
60. Conor Patrick Hayes, 20, Australia 2:04:28.70
61. Nill Banez Pina, 22, Spain 2:04:31.80
62. Richard Urban, 19, Slovakia 2:05:32.10
63. Rastislav Cacik, 17, Slovakia 2:05:41.90
64. Gautier Sobrie, 17, Belgium 2:05:53.50
65. Erik Garcia Fernandez, 19, Spain 2:07:40.30
66. Hugo Nevado Ruiz, 18, Spain 2:08:27.20
67. Eric Casals Mas, 19, Spain 2:09:54.20
68. Bailey Armstrong, 27, Australia DNF
69. Diogo Cardoso, 25, Portugal DNF
70. Daniel Carter, 18, Australia DNF
71. Yare Cocera Cordon, 20, Spain DNF
72. Fabio Dalu, 25, Italy DNF
73. Luca De Tullio, 22, Italy DNF
74. Thomas James Dreverman, 19, Australia DNF
75. Joel Farre Cortada, 18, Spain DNF
76. Esteban Faure, 17, Monaco DNF
77. Biel Gasol Gutierrez, 17, Spain DNF
78. Aiden Hammer, 18, USA DNF
79. Gafar Hassan, 23, Sudan DNF
80. Oliver Klemet, 24, Germany DNF
81. Antonio Luis Lopez Diaz, 21, Spain DNF
82. Davide Marchello, 24, Italy, DNF
83. Adria Navarro Merenciano, 17, Spain DNF
84. Aniol Oliver Sague, 17, Spain DNF
85. Daniel Poteczin, 19, Hungary DNF
86. Thomas Edward Raymond, 23, Australia DNF
87. Javier Rodriguez Diaz, 17, Spain DNF
88. Maxime van Heirweghe, 17, Belgium DNF
89. Logan Van Huys, 28, Belgium DNF
90. Cristobal Vargas Trujillo, 19, Spain DNF
91. Piotr Wozniak, 20, Poland DNF
92. Norberto Cabrill O Sanchez, 18, Spain OTL
93. Cristobal Javier Caceres Carrion, 18, Spain OTL
94. Lucas Costa Fernandez, 27, Spain OTL
95. Xoel Cubeiro Rosende, 18, Spain OTL
96. Ivan Diaz Rodriguez, 17, Spain OTL
97. Percy Escobar, 26, Bolivia OTL
98. Iker Redondo, 19, Spain OTL

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