Courtesy of Hassan Baraka, Swim in Morocco.

Hassan Baraka is organizing an amateur 3 km and 10 km event in the northeast of Morocco called the Swim In Morocco on September 24th of September.

“The ambassador of this event is two-time Olympic swimmer (2008 + 2012) Sara El Bekri and Hungarian swimmer Nicoletta Kiss is committed to joining the competition. Our aim is to promote swimming in Morocco.”

For more information, visit here. Registration will open up next week.

Kiss is shown above winning the 7.5 km event at the 2014 FINA World Junior Open Water Swimming Championships in Hungary in a photo by Aniko Kovacs.

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