Ana Marcela Cunha Awarded FINA's World Open Water Swimmer Of The Year Courtesy of FINA. FINA awarded its Female World Open Water Swimmer Of The Year recognition to Brazil's Ana Marcela Cunha who won two FINA World Championship titles in the 5 km and 25 km, qualified for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics 10 km marathon swim, and finished second overall in the 2019
Ana Marcela Cunha Named 2019 Women's Open Water Swimmer of the Year Courtesy of Swimming World Magazine,
Esteban Enderica Salgado Wins Pan American Games Courtesy of WOWSA, Laguna Bujama, Lima, Peru. Esteban Enderica Salgado of Ecuador won a bronze medal at the XVII Pan American Games 10 km race in 2015, but he won the gold medal going away in 1:53:46.7. Guillermo Bértola of Argentina was 2nd in 1:54.00.0. Taylor Abbott of the USA was third in
Ana Marcela Cunha Wins Pan American Games Courtesy of WOWSA, Laguna Bujama, Lima. In the XVIII Pan American Games 10 km race, 5-time world champion Ana Marcela Cunha of Brazil won the gold medal in 2:00:51.9 with Cecilia Biagioli of Argentina, the 2011 Games champion, second in 2:01:03.2 and Viviane Eichelberger of Brazil third in 2:02:24.0. Kate
Photo of David Heron (silver medal on left) and Chip Peterson (gold medal on right) by Al Bello/Getty Images. Charles 'Chip' Peterson had a great start to his open water swimming career at the age of 18 when he won his first world 10 km championship in Montreal, Canada. But a series of illnesses set him back over the intervening years. His career was
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. At yesterday's Pan American Games marathon swim, Jade Dusablon and Samantha Harding went head-to-head literally. The pair of 21-year-old Canadians finished 7th and 8th respectively only 1 second apart at the women's 10 km marathon swimming final in Ontario Place West Channel in Lake Ontario. "I think both
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Sports fans love last-second shots and game-ending scores. TV audiences love replays of races that end in photo finishes. Books are written and careers are made centered around great competitions that culminate in a heart-pounding finale. Heroes and legacies are made this way. When athletes are pushed
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Unión Americana de Natación (UANA or the Amateur Swimming Union of the Americas) under the leadership of Brazil's Coaracy Nunes Filho appointed its technical open water swimming officials and referees (International Technical Officials or ITO) for the 2015 Pan American Games that will be held in Toronto,
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Tickets for the Pan American Games in Toronto went on sale today. The tickets are sold on a first-come, first-serve basis (see here). The Ontario Place West Channel will be site of the open water swims on July 9th and 11th. Copyright © 2014 by World Open Water Swimming Association
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Denny Ryther, chairman of the Open Water Swimming Committee of UANA (Unión Americana de Natación or the Amateur Swimming Union of the Americas*), provided updates on the open water swimming plans for the next Pan American Games to be in Toronto, Canada in July 2015. In its report on the 2015 Pan American
