Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California.

Allan do Carmo [shown above] officially won the series title at the 2014 FINA 10K Marathon Swimming World Cup with a close second to Christian Reichert at the FINA season-ending race in Hong Kong today.

The race was close as usual and featured the fierce emerging rivalry of Brazil versus Germany within an international event. Like the FINA 10K Marathon Swimming World Cup results in Chunan Qiandaohu Lake in China last week, Brazil and Germany swept the top 5 places.

But this week, Germany’s Christian Reichert took top honors over Do Carmo. Both ended with big smiles on their faces while the rest of the field heads back home to start training for the 2015 season and the 2016 Rio Olympic 10K qualification race that will be held in conjunction with the 2015 FINA World Championships.

Results from today’s FINA 10K Marathon Swimming World Cup:

1. Christian Reichert, Germany 1:56.12.4
2. Allan do Carmo, Brazil 1:56:12.7
3. Andreas Waschburger, Germany 1:56:12.9
4. Diogo Villarinho, Brazil 1:56:14.0
5. Thomas Lurz, Germany 1:56:16.0
6. Jarrod Poort, Australia 1:56:17.0
7. Thomas Allen, Great Britain 1:56:18.4
8. Yasunari Hirai, Japan 1:56:18.4
9. Richard Weinberger, Canada 1:56:19.7
10. Kirill Abrosimov, Russia 1:56:19.7
11. Simon Huitenga, Australia 1:56:21.4
12. Christopher Bryan, Ireland 1:56:21.8
13. David Heron, USA 1:56:23.1
14. George O’Brien, Australia 1:56:23.5
15. Charles Peterson, USA 1:56:23.9
16. Shuhei Matsumura, Japan 1:56:24.0
17. Daniel Delgadillo, Mexico 1:56:24.3
18. Samuel Sheppard, Australia 1:56:28.6
19. Esteban Endenca, Ecuardor 1:56:39.6
20. Vitaliy Khudyakov, Kazakhstan 1:56:48.6
21. Daniel Fogg, Great Britain 1:57.08.8
22. Joshua Richardson, Australia 1:57:30.6
23. Yohsuke Miyamoto, Japan 1:57:58.4
24. Lachlan Colquhoun, Australia 1:58:13.7
25. Alfredo Villa Mejia, Mexico 1:58:14.1
26. Sean Ryan, USA 1:58:25.5
27. Troy Balvert, New Zealand 1:58:56.1
28. Cory Mayfield, USA 1:59:33.6
29. Arturo Perez Vertti, Mexico 1:59:34.1

Results from last week’s FINA 10K Marathon Swimming World Cup in Chunan Qiandaohu Lake, China:

1. Allan Do Carmo (BRA) 1:52:59.57
2. Thomas Lurz (GER) 1:53:00.21
3. Diogo Villarinho (BRA) 1:53:01.77
4. Christian Reichert (GER) 1:53:02.50
5. Andreas Waschburger (GER) 1:53:02.90

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