Kristóf Rasovszky Wins 2021 FINA/CNSG Marathon Swim World Series
Kristóf Rasovszky of Hungary won the 2021FINA/CNSG Marathon Swim World Series over France’sMarc-Antoine Olivier in a close season-long battle. Olivier was disqualified relatively early in theFINA/CNSG Marathon Swim World Series Grand Finale with a red card in Abu Dhabi, UAE while Rasovszky finished third to lock up the World Series title.
Rasovszky had quite a year with his World Series title and Olympic marathon swimming silver medal finish at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games (shown above).
2021 FINA/CNSG Marathon Swim World Series Rankings:
- Kristóf Rasovszky (Hungary, 24) 2,550 points
- Marc-Antoine Olivier (France, 25) 2,400 points
- Niklas Frach (Germany, 23) 1,650 points
- Matteo Furlan (Italy, 32) 1,130 points
- Axel Reymond (France, 27) 1,120 points
- Mario Sanzullo (Italy) 1,050 points
- Andrea Manzi (Italy) 950 points
- Alberto Martinez (Spain) 700 points
- Hector Thomas Cheal Pardoe (Great Britain) 700 points
- Marcel Schouten (Netherlands) 700 points
- Kirill Abrosimov (Russia) 688 points
- Logan Fontaine (France) 580 points
- Allan do Carmo (Brazil) 560 points
- David Betlehem (Hungary) 558 points
- Sacha Velly (France) 520 points
- Dario Verani (Italy) 504 points
- Aaron Elias Schmidt (Germany) 464 points
- Bailey Armstrong (Australia) 406 points
- Diogo Villarinho (Brazil) 378 points
- Jules Wallart (France) 310 points
- Jan Hercog (Austria) 304 points
- Matthieu Magne (France) 296 points
- Athanasios Kynigakis (Greece) 284 points
- Matan Roditi (Israel) 280 points
- Logan Vanhuys (Belgium) 266 points
- Guillem Pujol (Spain) 262 points
- Alexandre Verplaetse (France) 240 points
- Fares Zitouni (France) 240 points
- Lars Bottelier (Netherlands) 234 points)
- Tiago Campos (Brazil) 220 points
- Evgenij Pop Acev (Macedonia) 207 points
- Peter Galicz (Hungary) 202 points
- Ido Gal (Israel) 186 points
- Vincent Crooijmans (Netherlands) 180 points
- Leo Ouabdesselam (France) 162 points
- Sander Crooijmans (Netherlands) 154 points
- Elliot Sodemann (Sweden) 152 points
- Lev Cherepanov (Kazakhstan) 105 points
- Igor Chervynskiy (Ukraine) 85 points
- Galymzhan Balabek (Kazakhstan) 82 points
The FINA Marathon Swim World Series included four 10 km races in Doha, Qatar on March 13th, Lake Ohrid in North Macedonia on August 28th, Eilat, Israel on December 12th, and Abu Dhabi, UAE on December 16th.
The remaining 10 km races in Seychelles on May 9th, Budapest on June 12th, Setúbal, Portugal on June 19th, lac St-Jean, Canada on July 25th, and lac Mégantic, Canada on August 7th were all cancelled due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
The prize money is given to the top 10 finishers based on the season-ending rankings as follows:
- US$50,000
- US$35,000
- US$25,000
- US$20,000
- US$15,000
- US$12,000
- US$8,000
- US$5,000
- US$3,500
- US$1,500
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