Pilar Geijo Talks About Her Long Career On WOWSA Live Sponsored by KAATSU Global. Argentina has produced many storied marathon swimmers over the past several decades who have traveled around the world, including Antonio Abertondo, Damián Blaum, Alfredo Camarero, Pedro A. Candioti, Silvia Beatríz Dalotto, Diego Degano, Lilian Harrison, Horacio Iglesias,
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Samir Barel of Brazil completed the final leg of his Tríplice Coroa (Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming) this morning with a Catalina Channel crossing in 8 hours 45 minutes. Among his support team are two FINA Open Water Swimming Grand Prix champions, a husband-and-wife team of Damián Blaum and Esther
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Pilar Geijo of Argentina won the 2015 FINA Open Water Swimming Grand Prix title in a tight season-long battle over Alice Franco of Italy. Pilar has now won the title in the last 4 out of 5 years: 2010, 2011, 2014 and 2015. The 31-year-old swimmer who trains under her husband Diego Tricárico at Club River
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Check into a hotel and many concierges have a running route available for guests. Many towns have walking tours in their historic area. Talk to cyclists and mountaineers and they all love to explain their favorite routes. But open water swimmers venture past the shorelines and they are usually on their
The record holders of the Maratón Acuática Internacional Santa Fe - Coronda read like the Who's Who of professional marathon swimming. In the first edition of 1961, Carlos Larriera of Argentina set the original record in exactly 8 hours down the Coronda River. It took 13 years for someone to break that original mark. Fellow Argentine Claudio Plit finished
A week after the 10K marathoners visit Cozumel on the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico, the ultra-marathoners fly in and compete in the most beautiful and shortest leg on the FINA Open Water Swimming Grand Prix pro circuit. Young Olga Kozydub of Russia is just barely hanging on to a slim series lead over the two women who have dominated the pro circuit over the
After experiencing illness at the 15 km Rosario stop on the opening leg of the 2013 FINA Open Water Swimming Grand Prix, Pilar Geijo was not herself in Rosario or at last week's 57 km Maratón Acuática Internacional Santa Fe - Coronda race. But all was righted for Geijo at the world's longest competitive race from Hernandarias to Parana, the 88 km Maratón
Esther Nuñez Morera of Spain and Tiago Sato of Brazil are enjoying their birthday swims this week in Argentina on the FINA Open Water Swimming Grand Prix. After Sunday's 57 km Maratón Acuática Internacional Santa Fe - Coronda, they have another marathon swim coming up this week, the 88 km Maratón Hernandarias-Paraná. Sore, tired, hungry and sunburn. When
After a good showing in the 15 km race last week at the Maratón Acuática Internacional Ciudad de Rosario, and finishing fourth in last year's race, Olga Kozydub of Russia started out in the lead and hung on for 8 hours 42 minutes to beat the more experienced veterans on the professional marathon swimming circuit in Santa Fe, Argentina today. Swimming
At today's Maratón Acuática Internacional Santa Fe - Coronda event, each swimmer's boat is supported by a different sponsor. The escort boat of FINA Open Water Swimming Grand Prix champion Pilar Geijo, a favorite in her native Argentina, is sponsored by the national lottery. If she remains healthy, she'll remain a reasonable pick for victory although she
