Courtesy of FINA, Viedma, Argentina. While Adrianna Bridi comfortably won the 10 km La Patagones Viedma, the first race in the 2017 FINA/HOSA 10K Marathon Swimming World Cup series, the race for second was literally too close to call. Rachele Bruni (silver medalist at the 2016 Rio Olympic 10K Marathon Swim) and Poliana Okimoto Cintra (bronze medalist)
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Rachele Bruni is one competitive athlete. When she dives into the water, she aims to win. And she often does. The 2016 Olympic silver medalist in Rio won the sprint race held before the La Patagones Viedma, the first race in the 2017 FINA/HOSA 10K Marathon Swimming World Cup series. Fernando Ponte of
Courtesy of La Patagones Viedma, Viedma, Argentina. To watch live streaming of La Patagones Viedma on February 4th, the first event on the FINA/HOSA 10 km Marathon Swimming World Cup series can be seen here. Copyright © 2016 by World Open Water Swimming Association
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Guillermo Bértola will participate for the sixth time in the 57 km Maratón Acuática Internacional Santa Fe - Coronda in his native Argentina. The Cordovan has left his mark since his debut in river waters in 2009 - and still trains hard. "My main objective for this year is to qualify for the FINA World
In this Rio Olympic quadrennial, Brazilian swimmers are making things very interesting: the Brazilian 1-2 combination of Poliana Okimoto and Ana Marcela Cunha is getting harder and harder to beat. They were hard to beat at the 2013 FINA World Championships in Barcelona, Spain and the duo was unstoppable at this weekend's La Patagones Viedma marathon swim
Youth was served at this weekend's La Patagones Viedma marathon swim held in Argentina when a slew of veterans were upset by the young guard in the season-opening FINA 10K Marathon Swimming World Cup race. The race was going to plan for the veterans lining up in perfect position for the final loop. But then the unexpected occurred as Thomas Lurz's lead was
Romain Baraud of France is on a roll, upsetting a star-studded field for the second consecutive week. Last week, he won the first stage of the FINA 10K Marathon Swimming World Cup in Santos, Brazil. This week, he won again at La Patagones Viedma, making his second victory more of an exclamation than an exception. This time, he beat fellow Frenchman
The FINA 10km Marathon Swimming World Cup and the FINA Open Water Swimming Grand Prix returns to the Americas with the Maratón Cancún next week in Mexico. With each subsequent race, the Olympics gets closer and closer and the intensity is notched higher and higher. Video from La Patagones Viedma in Argentina shows how fast Olympic marathon swimming gold
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
