Superstars Look On While Open Water Stars Compete
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. At the August 22nd Pan Pacific Swimming Championships 10K Marathon Swim special guests, including Michael Phelps and Ryan Lochte, are scheduled to attend.
Cheering along the shoreline in Long Beach’s Marine Stadium, aquatic’s greatest superstars will show their support for their open water swimming teammates.
On the women’s side, Brazil’s Poliana Okimoto, the 2009 FINA World Cup champion, 2010 world 5 km champion Eva Fabian from New Hampshire, multi-time USA Swimming national champion and Olympian Chloe Sutton, 2009 world 5 km champion Melissa Gorman of Australia, NCAA champion Emily Brunemann from Michigan, world championship 4th-place finisher Christine Jennings from Colorado and top 10 world championship swimmer Cara Baker of New Zealand should put on quite a show in the flat-water course.
On the men’s side, world 10 km championship silver medalist Andrew Gemmell, world 5 km and 10 km championship bronze medalist Fran Crippen, world 25K champion Alex Meyer (shown above), 2005 world 10 km champion Chip Peterson and the studly Australian duo of Rhys Mainstone and Andrew Beato will knock heads in the five-loop 10 km course.
USA Swimming reported that the following countries confirmed their attendance at the Pan Pacific Championships: Argentina, Australia, Bermuda, Brazil, Canada, Cayman Islands, Chile, China, Ecuador, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Marshall Islands, Namibia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Singapore, South Africa, Trinidad & Tobago, Tunisia, USA and Zimbabwe.
Photo of Alex Meyer by Dr. Jim Miller.
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Southern California native, born 1962, is the creator of the WOWSA Awards, Oceans Seven, Openwaterpedia, Citrus Corps, World Open Water Swimming Association, Daily News of Open Water Swimming, Global Open Water Swimming Conference. He is Chief Executive Officer of KAATSU Global and KAATSU Research Institute. Inductee in the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame (Honor Swimmer, Class of 2001) and Ice Swimming Hall of Fame (Honor Contributor - Media, Class of 2019), recipient of the International Swimming Hall of Fame's Poseidon Award (2016), International Swimming Hall of Fame's Irving Davids-Captain Roger Wheeler Memorial Award (2010), USA Swimming's Glen S. Hummer Award (2007, 2010) and Harvard University's John B. Imrie Award (1984). Served on the FINA Technical Open Water Swimming Committee and as Technical Delegate with the 2011 Special Olympics World Summer Games, and 9-time USA Swimming coaching staff. Note: WOWSA only recommends products or services used or recommended by the community. WOWSA does not receive compensation for links or products mentioned on this site or in blog posts. If it does, it will be indicated clearly on that specific post. See WOWSA's privacy policy for more information.
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