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Germany’s Florian Wellbrock is the man with a target on his back at the upcoming Pan Pacific Swimming Championships 10 km race to be held on August 10th in Long Beach, California
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Germany’s Florian Wellbrock is the man with a target on his back at the upcoming Pan Pacific Swimming Championships 10 km race to be held on August 10th in Long Beach, California
Germany with Julie Ackermann, Isabel Gose, Oliver Klemet, and Florian Wellbrock finished first in the 4 x 1500m Mixed Team Relay to conclude the open water races at the 2026 European Aquatic Championships
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The differences in strokes per minute pace by the top European open water swimmers was fascinating to see: from a low of 60.5 spm by Florian Wellbrock to a high of 97.0 spm by Ginevra Taddeucci – who both won the 5 km and 10 km races in the Seine.
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Both Moesha Johnson and David Betlehem won the 3 km Knockout Sprints at the World Cup Open Water Swimming circuit in Golfo Aranci, Italy in hard-fought swims.
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Giulia Berton, Ginevra Taddeucci, and Andrea Filadelli, and Gregorio Paltrinieri won the 4x1500m mixed team relay on the World Cup Open Water Swimming circuit in front of a home crowd.
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Sharon van Rouwendaal, Moesha Johnson, and Ginevra Taddeucci finished 1-2-3 in the Olympic 10K Marathon Swim on the Seine at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
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Ginevra Taddeucci wins the 2025 World Aquatics Open Water Swimming World Cup series as rivalry with Moesha Johnson continues around the world.
Ginevra Taddeucci Wins 2025 World Cup Series As Rivalry With Moesha Johnson Continues Read More »
Moesha Johnson (27, Australia, MSF bio here, World Aquatics bio here, @swimmer_moe), Isabel Gose (23, Germany, World Aquatics bio here), and Ichika Kajimoto (21, Japan, World Aquatics bio here, @chika_0307) had a very busy two weeks at the 2025 World Aquatics Championships, racing from Singapore’s Sentosa Island where the open water races were held to
Unbelievable. Simply unbelievable. Four races and four gold medals. In clearly dominant fashion. Florian Wellbrock (27, Germany, MSF bio here, World Aquatics bio here, @flo.swim) was absolutely Phelpsian (Spitzian) in conditions that would be unfathomable in the controlled environment of a 50m pool: The first three German swimmers of Celine Rieder (24, World Aquatics bio here) + Oliver Klemet