Courtesy of FINA, Setúbal Bay, Portugal.
“Takeshi Toyoda, Japan is leading 1 hour 20 minutes into the 10 km race – and he has a clever strategy with his equipment,” explains Steven Munatones. “Although all the athletes are wearing wetsuits due to the cooler water, Toyoda has a standard textile swim cap that allows greater escape of heat from the head – versus the silicon and rubber swim caps of the other swimmers. Many people outside of Japan don’t realize this type of cap is standard issue in Japan. The Japanese coaching staff has a unique strategy to help their swimmers as best they can.
That kind of textile swim cap is standard issue in Japan. Every schoolchildren in Japan wears one during their school years. Some athletes have taken off their swim cap so it is clear that the swimmers are heating up in the second half of the race.”
15 swimmers will qualify at the 2021 FINA Olympic Marathon Swim Qualifier on June 20th and will secure one of the final spots to compete Odaiba Marine Park in Tokyo Bay:
- Franco Ivo Cassini, Argentina
- Joaquin Moreno, Argentina
- Kai Graeme Edwards, Australia
- Nicholas Sloman, Australia
- Jan Hercog, Austria
- Logan Vanhuys, Belgium
- Rodrigo Caballero, Bolivia
- Zedheir Torrez, Bolivia
- Allan do Carmo, Brazil
- Diogo Villarinho, Brazil
- Hau-Li Fan, Canada
- Eric Hedlin, Canada
- Vit Ingeduld, Czech Republic
- Matej Kozubek, Czech Republic
- Esteban Enderica Salgado, Ecuador
- David Farinango, Ecuador
- Hector Thomas Cheal Pardoe, Great Britain
- Tobias Patrick Robinson, Great Britain
- Athanasios Kynigakis, Greece
- Dimitrios Markos, Greece
- Chin Ting Keith Sin, Hong Kong
- William Yan Thorley, Hong Kong
- Matan Roditi, Israel
- Yuval Safra, Israel
- Taishin Minamide, Japan
- Takeshi Toyoda, Japan
- Lev Cherepanov, Kazakhstan
- Vitaliy Khudyakov, Kazakhstan
- Kiwoong Koo, Korea
- Junhae Lee, Korea
- Adib Khalil, Lebanon
- Mathieu Mathy Ben Rahou, Morocco
- Fernando Betanzos, Mexico
- Daniel Delgadillo, Mexico
- Theo Druenne, Monaco
- Phillip Seidler, Namibia
- Krzysztof Chmielewski, Poland
- Tiago Campos, Portugal
- Diogo Cardoso, Portugal
- Bogdan Petre, Romania
- Henre Louw, South Africa
- Michael McGlynn, South Africa
- Kirill Abrosimov, Russia
- Evegnii Drattcev, Russia
- Martin Bau, Slovakia
- Yousif Ibrahim, Sudan
- Federico Salghetti-Drioli, Switzerland
- Christian Schreiber, Switzerland
- Tomas Peciar, Slovenia
- Matthias Glenesk, Sweden
- Elliot Sodemann, Sweden
- Tanakrit Kittiya, Thailand
- Araya Pumchitamorn, Thailand
- Cheng-Chi Cho, Chinese Taipei
- Kai-Wen Tseng, Chinese Taipei
- Malek Louissi, Tunisia
- Ous Mellouli, Tunisia [shown above]
- Igor Chervynskiy, Ukraine
- Felipe Lopez, Uruguay
- Maximiliano Paccot, Uruguay
- Diego Vera, Venezuela
The 15 qualifying swimmers in Setúbal Bay will join the following 10 finalists in Tokyo Bay on August 5th (shown below with their qualification time and place):
1. Florian Wellbrock (Germany) 1:47:55.90
2. Marc-Antoine Olivier (France) 1:47:56.10
3. Rob Muffels (Germany) 1:47:57.40
4. Kristóf Rasovszky (Hungary) 1:47:59.50
5. Jordan Wilimovsky (USA) 1:48:01.00
6. Gregorio Paltrinieri (Italy) 1:48:01.00
7. Ferry Weertman (Netherlands) 1:48:01.90
8. Alberto Martinez (Spain) 1:48:02.20
9. Mario Sanzullo (Italy) 1:48:04.70
10. David Aubry (France) 1:48:05.10
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