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Ned Denison must have had a hand in the design of the FINA Open Water Swimming Grand Prix course in Cozumel, Mexico. Denison, the deviously creative glutton for punishment at the Cork Distance Week in Ireland, has a way of getting under the skin of marathon swimmers. He pushes them further psychologically and physiologically than […]
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London Opens The Door For Open Water Swimming In Japan Courtesy of WOWSA, Serpentine, London. When open water swimming was first accepted into the Olympic Games program in 2005, the upward trajectory of the sport began. But when athletes in different countries qualify as one of the top 25 swimmers for the Olympic 10K Marathon
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Several professional marathon swimmers use waterproof masking tape of some kind to help hold down their swim caps during the FINA Open Water Swimming Grand Prix circuit and the FINA 10K Marathon Swimming World Cup circuit. It is better to be safe than sorry, especially with all the physicality. Copyright © 2013 by Open Water
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In the Olympic 10K Marathon Swim, the 5 km, 5 km team time trial, 10 km, and 25 km races at the World Swimming Championships, the FINA Open Water Swimming Grand Prix professional circuit, the FINA 10K Marathon Swimming World Cup professional circuit, and many other open water swimming competitions, a finish chute created out
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1. Simone Ruffini (ITA) 3:03:22 2. Brian Ryckeman (BEL) 3:03:36 3. Simone Ercoli (ITA) 3:03:40 4. Roman Beraud (FRA) 3:03:41 5. Nicola Bolzonnello (ITA) 3:03:59 6. Luis Bolanos (VEN) 3:04:19 7. Richard Weinberger (CAN) 3:04:31 8. Ferry Weertman (NED) 3:04:33 9. Guillermo Bertola (ARG) 3:04:36 10. Sebastien Fraysse (FRA) 3:04:50 11. Christian Reichert (GER) 3:05:27
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Today’s final results from the 2013 FINA Open Water Swimming Grand Prix race in Cozumel, Mexico is shown below. There were quite a number of athletes who were called for OTL (Over The Time Limit), DQ (Disqualification), and DNF (Did Not Finish): 1. Martina Grimaldi (ITA) 3:21:44 2. Angela Maurer (GER) 3:21:47 3. Rachele Bruni
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Simone Ruffini of Italy won his first FINA Open Water Swimming Grand Prix race today off the coral-line coast of Isla Cozumel in a tight race over Brian Ryckeman of Belgium and Ercoli Simone of Italy. “It was fast from the beginning. It was a fast start,” recalls 2-time Olympian Brian Ryckeman. “The combination of
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Martina Grimaldi pulled off a two-fer winning her second FINA professional marathon swimming race in one week. Her victory was a hard-fought 15 km race in a 12-loop 1.25 km course against the fast currents of the Caribbean Sea. Loop after loop, Grimaldi went stroke-for-stroke with the ageless Angela Maurer of Germany and her Italian
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As we look into our crystal ball and make 10 predictions for the rest of the open water swimming season in 2013, we see the following: 1. There will be tremendously competitive and exciting races at the 2013 FINA World Championships in Barcelona, Spain. The American women will battle the Italian women for the top
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With few exceptions, the world’s fastest professional marathon swimming women assembled in Isla Cozumel on the Yucatan Peninsula last week for the FINA 10K Marathon Swimming World Cup. World 10 km champion Martina Grimaldi came out on top of the tough aquatic scrum just barely touching out Eva Fabian of the USA and a bunch
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