Barbara Pozzobon Wins Capri-Napoli Courtesy of FINA, Capri-Napoli, Italy. Barbara Pozzobon and Alice Franco went 1-2 at the 36 km Maratona del Golfo Capri-Napoli. The tradition of swimming from the island of Capri and racing to Marina Grande Beach in Napoli on the mainland of Italy began in 1954. Once a mainstay on the International Long Distance Swimming
Déjà Vu For Angela Maurer In Novi, Croatia Courtesy of FINA, Novi, Croatia. Angela Maurer, at the age of 44, became one of the oldest swimmers in history to win a leg on the FINA UltraMarathon Swim Series. 44-year-old Maurer won the 20 km marathon swim in Novi, Croatia on August 31st. Maurer described her victory by 17 seconds over another veteran Alice
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Romina Imwinkelried is a young professional marathon swimmer from Santa Fe, Argentina who competed for the first time outside her native country last weekend on the 2014 FINA Open Water Swimming Grand Prix circuit. She was quiet and pensive before the race - not unusual by young swimmers in their first
Romina Imwinkelried from San Jerónimo Norte, Argentina is a young swimmer who qualified for this weekend's 57 km Maratón Acuática Internacional Santa Fe - Coronda after being invited to the Sprint Race in the FINA Open Water Swimming Grand Prix event in 2013. Photo of Romina Imwinkelried by Luis Gudino of The Coastline. Copyright © 2014 by World Open
