The World’s Top Swimmers Are Heading To Cancún
The second leg of the FINA 10KM Marathon Swimming World Cup series will be held in Cancún, Mexico.And the professional marathon swimming stars are coming out with 76 of the world’s top swimmers going to battle in the gorgeous waters of the Caribbean Sea including world champions, Olympic medalists, World Cup champions, Grand Prix champions.
The men’s start list includes Yuri Kudinov (Kazakhztan), Zachary Parkes, Richard Weinberger, Simon Tobin (Canada), Valerio Cleri (Italy), Ivan Enderica Ochoa (Ecuador), Gercsak Csaba (Hungary), Sergiy Fesenko (Azerbaijan), Petar Stoychev (Bulgaria), Joseph Kleindl, Thomas Lurz, Christian Reichert, Andreas Waschburger (Germany), Alex Meyer, Mark Warkentin (USA), Ivan Lopez, Humberto Yrepa, Luis Escobar (Mexico), Saleh Mohamed (Syria)
The women’s start list includes Poliana Okimoto (Brazil), Eva Risztov (Hungary), Cindy Toscano Merida (Guatemala), Iris Matthey, Swann Oberson (Switzerland), Inha Kotsur (Azerbaijan), Isabell Donath, Nadine Reichert, Antje Mahn, Angela Maurer, Lena Stiefvatter (Germany), Teja Zupan (Slovenia), Haley Anderson, Christine Jennings, Heidi George (USA), Antonella Bogarin, Rita Vanessa Garcia, Marianella Mendoza (Argentina), Alejandra Gonzalez, Zaira Cardenas (Mexico).
A great race in a beautiful location in the build-up to the 2012 Olympic 10K Marathon Swim qualification race. The Daily News of Open Water Swimming will provide tweet updates and tweets from Cancún.
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Southern California native, born 1962, is the creator of the WOWSA Awards, Oceans Seven, Openwaterpedia, Citrus Corps, World Open Water Swimming Association, Daily News of Open Water Swimming, Global Open Water Swimming Conference. He is Chief Executive Officer of KAATSU Global and KAATSU Research Institute. Inductee in the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame (Honor Swimmer, Class of 2001) and Ice Swimming Hall of Fame (Honor Contributor - Media, Class of 2019), recipient of the International Swimming Hall of Fame's Poseidon Award (2016), International Swimming Hall of Fame's Irving Davids-Captain Roger Wheeler Memorial Award (2010), USA Swimming's Glen S. Hummer Award (2007, 2010) and Harvard University's John B. Imrie Award (1984). Served on the FINA Technical Open Water Swimming Committee and as Technical Delegate with the 2011 Special Olympics World Summer Games, and 9-time USA Swimming coaching staff. Note: WOWSA only recommends products or services used or recommended by the community. WOWSA does not receive compensation for links or products mentioned on this site or in blog posts. If it does, it will be indicated clearly on that specific post. See WOWSA's privacy policy for more information.
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