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:

1. Kristóf Rasovszky (Hungary, 24) 2,550 points
2. Marc-Antoine Olivier (France, 25) 2,400 points
3. Niklas Frach (Germany, 23) 1,650 points
4. Matteo Furlan (Italy, 32) 1,130 points
5. Axel Reymond (France, 27) 1,120 points
6. Mario Sanzullo (Italy) 1,050 points
7. Andrea Manzi (Italy) 950 points
8. Alberto Martinez (Spain) 700 points
9. Hector Thomas Cheal Pardoe (Great Britain) 700 points
10. Marcel Schouten (Netherlands) 700 points
11. Kirill Abrosimov (Russia) 688 points
12. Logan Fontaine (France) 580 points
13. Allan do Carmo (Brazil) 560 points
14. David Betlehem (Hungary) 558 points
15. Sacha Velly (France) 520 points
16. Dario Verani (Italy) 504 points
17. Aaron Elias Schmidt (Germany) 464 points
18. Bailey Armstrong (Australia) 406 points
19. Diogo Villarinho (Brazil) 378 points
20. Jules Wallart (France) 310 points
21. Jan Hercog (Austria) 304 points
22. Matthieu Magne (France) 296 points
23. Athanasios Kynigakis (Greece) 284 points
24. Matan Roditi (Israel) 280 points
25. Logan Vanhuys (Belgium) 266 points
26. Guillem Pujol (Spain) 262 points
27. Alexandre Verplaetse (France) 240 points
28. Fares Zitouni (France) 240 points
29. Lars Bottelier (Netherlands) 234 points)
30. Tiago Campos (Brazil) 220 points
31. Evgenij Pop Acev (Macedonia) 207 points
32. Peter Galicz (Hungary) 202 points
33. Ido Gal (Israel) 186 points
34. Vincent Crooijmans (Netherlands) 180 points
35. Leo Ouabdesselam (France) 162 points
36. Sander Crooijmans (Netherlands) 154 points
37. Elliot Sodemann (Sweden) 152 points
38. Lev Cherepanov (Kazakhstan) 105 points
39. Igor Chervynskiy (Ukraine) 85 points
40. 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:

1. US$50,000
2. US$35,000
3. US$25,000
4. US$20,000
5. US$15,000
6. US$12,000
7. US$8,000
8. US$5,000
9. US$3,500
10. US$1,500

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