Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The Fédération Internationale de Natation (FINA) was requested by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to modify the results of the Olympic 10K Marathon Swim due to the use of illegal substance by Ukraine's Olga Beresnyeva from the 2012 London Olympic Games. Beresnyeva's answers to the IOC related to
Christine Jennings not only won the 19.5 km BCT Gdynia Marathon for the second year in a row, but she also remain competitive with the men. She placed third overall behind male Olympians Alex Meyer and Vladimir Dyatchin and won the US$10,000 first prize. 1. Christine Jennings (USA) 4:13:57 2. Alexandra Sokolova (Russia) 4:15:46 3. Ines Hahn (Germany)
As a professional marathon swimmer, Christine Jennings has an endless summer as she travels from beach to beach, qualification races to the World Championships, and several invitational events in between. This week, the American from Colorado finds himself at the 19.5 km BCT Gdynia Marathon, a pro-am event in Poland. The event is organised and sponsored by
With the advent of the 10 km marathon swim as an Olympic event in 2008, the 25 km marathon took a hit. For the worse. While the world’s fastest open water swimmers focused on the 10 km, the number of the fast swimmer tackling the longer 25 km races fell. That era is over. Judging from the blistering fast women entered in next week’s 25 km race at the
Ukraine has several open water swimming stars who perform well on the global stage. The stars include Olga Beresnyeva who place 7th in the 2012 Olympic 10K Marathon Swim and Igor Chervynskiy who placed 14th in the 2012 Olympic 10K Marathon Swim. The pair will be competing in the 2013 Ukraine Open Water Championships that is held this week in Berdyansk,
Emily Brunemann won her second consecutive FINA 10K Marathon Swimming World Cup race. 2 races, 2 countries, and 2 victories are rightly boosting the confidence of the American distance swimmer who has now won a total of 4 FINA World Cups in her career. Brunemann finished ahead of Brazil's Ana Marcela Cunha and Olga Beresnyeva in the RÃo Negro. 52
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Throughout the calendar year, there are some weeks when open water swimming events simply overwhelm the senses. This week is one of the jam-packed open water periods that kicks off today. Today, starts off the festivities with speed and color in the beautiful aqua-marine waters of Cancún, Mexico. This
Members of the FINA Federations vote the world's best aquatic athletes in 2010. In the open water swimming category, there are five nominees.1. Olga Beresnyeva (UKR): European 25K champion (shown on left)2. Ana Marcela Cunha (BRA): FINA 10KM Marathon Swimming World Cup champion (shown above on right)3. Martina Grimaldi (ITA): World 25K champion (shown above
