Ana Marcela Cunha, From 2008 To 2020 Courtesy of FINA, Gwangju, South Korea. At the inaugural Olympic 10 km Marathon Swim at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, 15-year-old Ana Marcela Cunha of Brazil was the youngest swimmer. Her competitiveness helped her finish fifth and launch a decade-long dominance in the sport of professional marathon swimming, winning races
Xin Xin Pulls Off Major Upset, Wins 10K FINA World Championship Courtesy of FINA, Gwangju, South Korea. Behind the globally known gold medalist Sharon van Rouwendaal and equally well-known Rachele Bruni, Aurélie Muller and Poliana Okimoto, the top Chinese open water swimmer Xin Xin quietly finished fourth at the 2016 Olympic Games 10 km marathon swim in
Haley Anderson, America's Three-peat Olympic Swimmer Courtesy of WOWSA, Gwangju, South Korea. For most of her teenage and adult life, American Haley Anderson has been dreaming and training to compete in the Olympics. She is completely dedicated to realizing her dreams. And now she has accomplished a three-peat. After her silver medal performance at the
IM An Olympian: Lara Grangeon Styling Towards Tokyo Courtesy of FINA, Gwangju, South Korea. Ask 100 swimming observers and no one would have predicted that Lara Grangeon would have become an Olympian today. Or that the 27-year-old would have finished so close to a podium finish in the most pressure-packed race of her life. But the French swimmer from the
Kareena Lee: 2020 Olympian With A Special Swim Courtesy of FINA, Gwangju, South Korea. Australia has a long tradition of great freestyles, from sprinters to distance swimmers. But it has been years since an Australian woman has reigned on top of the global open water swimming world. Every since Melissa Gorman upset reigning Olympic and world champion
Courtesy of LEN, lac du Causse, Brive-la-Gaillarde, France. The most recent LEN Open Water Swimming Cup races were held at Lac du Causse in Brive, France. The races doubled as the French national open water swimming championships where a majority of the swimmers were French. 19-year-old Kate Sanderson from Toronto, Canada described the conditions, “It
