Photos of Ilaria Raimondi (Italy), Mario Sanzullo (Italy), and Miki Asayama (Japan) at the end of the 10 km marathon swim at the Universiade, Republic of Korea, courtesy of Gwangju Summer Universiade Organizing Committee.

Competitive athletes in open water races around the world have described the last sprint in their 10 km marathon swims as:

* extremely painful
* my arms feel so heavy
* my heart is beating so fast
* I can’t get enough air
* it hurt, but I knew it would be over soon
* I don’t remember, I was just going as fast as possible
* I can’t describe it
* aaaggghhhhh
* all I remember is touching the finish line

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