In today’s season-finale World Aquatics Open Water Swimming World Cup 10 km race in Setúbal Bay, Portugal, the headliners – Moesha Johnson (28, Australia, World Aquatics bio here, @swimmer_moesha) and David Betlehem (22, Hungary, World Aquatics bio here, @betlehemdavid) proved they remain the crème de la crème by both winning close races.
While many pool swimmers have been complaining about compensation for their pool swimming accomplishments on the heels of the Enhanced Games, their open water swimming colleagues have been quietly and diligently training for the prize money awarded to the Overall Men’s and Women’s Leaders, each winning US$50,000. Additionally, US$10,000 was awarded to the overall Sprint Leaders; the male and female athletes who have won the highest number of sprint laps (or first laps) within the four 10 km races on the professional circuit. Also, the Junior Leaders (both men and women) will receive US$5,000 each.
Johnson ended the season undefeated, going four-for-four and winning every sprint lap (the first lap of the 10 km race), pocketing a lot of cash. She her post-race World Aquatics interview, the 28-year-old Australian said, “I’m absolutely exhausted. That was a really tough race, I still can’t breathe properly. But I set the expectation for myself to win everything, so I knew I just had to fight to the end and then I could be proud.”
It was not an easy swim as evidenced by 10 swimmers who DNF’ed.
Women’s 10 km Results
1. Moesha Johnson, Australia (28) 2:08:12.10
2. Bettina Fabian, Hungary (21) 2:08:13.30
3. Viktoria Mihalyvari-Farkas, Hungary (22) 2:08:15.90
4. Lea Boy, Germany (26) 2:08:21.50
5. Ginevra Taddeucci, Italy (29) 2:08:32.10
6. Angela Martinez Guillen, Spain (22) 2:08:36.20
7. Caroline Laure Jouisse, France (32) 2:08:40.50
8. Lisa Pou, Monaco (27) 2:08:44.30
9. Ichika Kajimoto, Japan (22) 2:09:03.60
10. Airi Ebina, Japan (24) 2:10:00.80
11. Becca Mann, USA (28) 2:11:17.10
12. Angelica Andre, Portugal (31) 2:11:18.10
13. Callan Lotter, South Africa (20) 2:11:18.40
14. Xinxuan Li, China (18) 2:11:18.50
15. Candela Sanchez Lora, Spain (22) 2:11:18.70
16. Julie Pleskotova, Czech Republic (24) 2:11:20.10
17. Louna Kasvio, Finland (20) 2:11:20.40
18. Chelsea Gubecka, Australia (27) 2:11:20.90
19. Ines Delacroix, France (23) 2:11:21.00
20. Jeannette Spiwoks, Germany (27) 2:11:22.30
21. Giulia Berton, Italy (25) 2:11:24.00
22. Klaudia Tarasiewicz, Poland (22) 2:11:28.40
23. Su Inal, Turkey (15) 2:12:01.00
24. Clemence Coccordano, France (21) 2:12:02.30
25. Romina Soledad Imwinkelried, Argentina (31) 2:13:29.60
26. Elena Tortora, Italy (21) 2:13:39.10
27. Ofek Adir, Israel (20) 2:18:01.70
28. Amelie Blocksidge, Great Britain (17) 2:19:03.60
29. Georgia Makri, Greece (19) 2:19:23.40
30. Alena Benesova, Czech Republic (28) 2:22:51.20
31. Maria Gkazgka, Greece (27) 2:23:15.60
32. Lou-Ann Gaudaire, France (19) 2:23:37.60
33. Carolina Pereira Viana, Portugal (21) 2:23:53.20
34. Sasha-Lee Nordengen-Corris, South Africa (29) 2:24:06.30
35. Sofia Graces, Argentina (18) 2:26:43.90
36. Alessandra Liviana Gendarmi, USA (17) 2:27:06.00
DNF Ana Abad, Ecuador (22)
DNF Linda Caponi, Italy (27)
DNF Mariah Denigan, USA (23)
DNF Candela Giordanino, Argentina (22)
DNF Emily Golos, Israel (17)
DNF Ruby Heath, New Zealand (26)
DNF Sophia Olivia Karras, Greece (22)
DNF Iris Mechini, Italy (22)
DNF Spela Perse, Slovakia (29)
DNF Leonie-Sarah Josephine Tenzer, Finland (20)
DSQ Barbara Pozzobon, Italy (32)
DNS Mariana Mendes, Portugal (24)
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