Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The 47th International Jarak-Šabac Marathon Swim (Plivački maraton Jarak-Šabac or Peace Race) is a 19 km marathon swim that has been unfailingly held during times of international sanctions, war and peace along the River Sava in Šabac, Serbia. Duje Milan of Croatia won this year's race in 2 hours 39
High expectations were met today when Italy's Martina Grimaldi ended up the 2013 FINA Open Water Swimming Grand Prix where she always intends: in front and on top. She closed out the FINA season with two hard-fought victories: last week at the 30 km Ohrid Lake Swimming Marathon and today at the 36 km Maratona del Golfo Capri-Napoli. Grimaldi won over
High expectations were met today when Italy's Martina Grimaldi ended up the 2013 FINA Open Water Swimming Grand Prix where she always intends: in front and on top. She closed out the FINA season with two hard-fought victories: last week at the 30 km Ohrid Lake Swimming Marathon and today at the 36 km Maratona del Golfo Capri-Napoli. Grimaldi won over
Italian world champion and Olympic medalist Martina Grimaldi out-dueled and out-touched her younger Russian rival Olga Kozydub at the 30 km Ohrid Lake Swimming Marathon in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia this morning. Karla Šitić of Croatia was third. "It was pretty flat out there for the first four hours, but the last hours were really, really
"It is sooo cool. What a beautiful place Croatia is," describes American Lexie Kelly after the inaugural Croatia Open Water - Split 10K organized by national team coach Slaven Šitić. "The race was run so well and you did not even need a coach for the feedings. Slaven set up an innovative cup holder system so you can swim right by and be easily fed by your
Under beautiful weather, Ashley Twichell of the USA won the gold, Aurora Ponsele of Italy the silver, and Karla Šitić of Croatia the bronze at the 2013 Universiade (World University Games) in Kazan, Russia today. Šitić commented about the 10 km course in the rowing basin, "The water temperature was high a little bit, 28-29°C (82-84ºF), but I really liked
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
Slaven Šitić is the father and swimming coach of Ivan Šitić, and Karla Šitić and Ivana Šitić, sisters and a professional marathon swimmers from Croatia. Karla qualified for the Olympic 10K Marathon Swim at the 2012 London Olympics, finishing 12th while Ivana competes on the FINA Open Water Swimming Grand Prix circuit. And he knows what he is talking about
Esther Nuñez of Spain dominated the first stage of the 2013 FINA Open Water Swimming Grand Prix circuit in Rosario, Argentina with a convincingly 1:58:38 victory over Karla Sitic of Croatia (2:01:14) and Olga Kozydub of Russia (2:01:16). Nuñez set the stage for a great 2013 season after winning the world title on the 2012 FINA Open Water swimming Grand Prix
VIEDMA, Argentina. Eva Fabian led the 1-2 American finish FINA 10K Marathon Swimming World Cup event in Viedma, Argentina. During a year she is taking time off from Yale University, she is making up some good air mileage and training mileage in the hopes that she makes the USA Olympic team. She improved upon last year's extremely close third-place finish
