Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California.
It took 14 years for Damián Blaum to win the 57 km Maratón Acuática Internacional Santa Fe – Coronda in his native Argentina.
But the 35-year-old eventually scored his first career victory in the opening stage on the 2017 FINA Open Water Swimming Grand Prix circuit.
Men’ Final Results:
1º Damián Blaum (Argentina) 8 hours 28 minutes 16.14 seconds
2º Edoardo Stochino (Italy) 8 hours 33 minutes 50.43 seconds
3º Evgenij Pop Acev (Macedonia) 8 hours 33 minutes 50.75 seconds
4º Simone Ercoli (Italy) 8 hours 41 minutes 28.53 seconds
5º Matheus Evangelista (Brazil) 8 hours 43 minutes 12.93 seconds
6º Edouard Lehoux (France) 9 hours 6 minutes 14.19 seconds
7º Aquiles Balaudo (Argentina) 9 hours 10 minutes 37.68 seconds
8º Matías Diaz Hernandez (Argentina) 9 hours 14 minutes 48.49 seconds
9º Aleksandar Ilievski (Macedonia) 9 hours 16 minutes 16.10 seconds
10º Samir Barel (Brazil) 9 hours 23 minutes 6.88 seconds
11º Luciano Nicolás Segurado (Argentina) 9 hours 26 minutes 47.38 seconds
12º Matías Aguirre (Argentina) 9 hours 34 minutes 27.55 seconds
DNF Mauricio Gatica (Argentina)
Women’s Final Results:
1º Barbara Pozzobón (Italy) 8 hours 53 minutes 42.79 seconds
2º Alice Franco (Italy) 9 hours 1 minutes 20.70 seconds
3º Aurélie Muller (France) 9 hours 5 minutes 13.68 seconds
4º Martina Grimaldi (Italy) 9 hours 6 minutes 53.31 seconds
5º Olga Kozydub (Russia) 9 hours 6 minutes 54.53 seconds
6º Daria Kulik (Russia) 9 hours 7 minutes 59.31 seconds
7º Pilar Geijo (Argentina) 9 hours 8 minutes 3.81 seconds
8th Ilaria Raimondi (Italy) 9 hours 10 minutes 49.43 seconds
9th Anna Mankevich (Russia) 9 hours 10 minutes 49.57 seconds
10º Fabiana Lamberti (Italy) 9 hours 11 minutes 30.27 seconds
11º Catarina Ganzeli (Brazil) 9 hours 47 minutes 29.16 seconds
12º Rita Vanesa Garcia (Argentina) 10 hours 15 minutes 51.24 seconds
DNF Romina Imwinkelried (Argentina)
DSQ Elena Lionello (Italy)
DSQ Daira Marin (Argentina)
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