Swimming 2018 Discussion Thread

[phelps 7,768]

2018 Open Water Junior World Championships (Eilat, ISR)

 

Day 3 Results

 

4*1.25km Mixed Relay (14-16 years old Kids)

Gold: Hungary

Silver: United States

Bronze: Italy

 

Open 4*1.25km Mixed Relay (19 years old & under Guys)

Gold: France

Silver: United States

Bronze: Italy

 

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2018 Open Water Junior World Championships (Eilat, ISR)

 

Final Medal Table

 

USA,  2 / 2 / 1

FRA,  2 / 1 / 0

RUS,  1 / 2 / 1

HUN,  1 / 1 / 3

ITA,  1 / 1 / 3

ESP,  1 / 0 / 0

PER,  0 / 1 / 0

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African champs 2018

10 to 16/09 Algiers 

 

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Sahnoun   is not in , 2-3 Gold lost

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Results of African champs

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Egypt dominated African Swimming championships which ended in Algeria 

[phelps 7,768]

Swimming Marathon World Cup stage #5 (July 26th, 2018 @ Lac St.Jean, CAN)

 

Men's 10km
Gold: Marcel Schouten
Silver: Fernando Ponte
Bronze: Diogo Villarinho

 

Full Results here:

http://www.fina.org/competition-detailed-results/finahosa-marathon-swim-world-series-2018-men-10km/event-2

 

Women's 10km
Gold: Ana Marcela Cunha
Silver: Viviane Jungblut
Bronze: Samantha Arevalo

 

Full Results here:

http://www.fina.org/competition-detailed-results/finahosa-marathon-swim-world-series-2018-women-10km/event-2

 

 

Swimming Marathon World Cup stage #6 (August 11th, 2018 @ Lac Megantic, CAN)

 

Men's 10km
Gold: Christian Reichert
Silver: Dario Verani
Bronze: Fernando Ponte

 

Full Results here:

http://www.fina.org/competition-detailed-results/finahosa-marathon-swim-world-series-2018-men-10km/event-3

 

Women's 10km
Gold: Xin Xin
Silver: Rachele Bruni
Bronze: Samantha Arevalo

 

Full Results here:

http://www.fina.org/competition-detailed-results/finahosa-marathon-swim-world-series-2018-women-10km/event-3

 

 

Sorry for posting these results so late, but we must say that both Canadian World Series stages have been heavily affected by the European Championships going on basically at the same time, which led all the European top swimmers to skip these events (with just a couple of exceptions by swimmers not involved in the Europeans + the "out of radar" appearance of Rachele Bruni in the 6th stage)...

therefore, the final results of these events didn't make the headlines of the usual sport websites and were basically "forgotten"...

[dcro 10,210]

  On 9/17/2018 at 8:14 AM, phelps said:

Sorry for posting these results so late, but we must say that both Canadian World Series stages have been heavily affected by the European Championships going on basically at the same time, which led all the European top swimmers to skip these events (with just a couple of exceptions by swimmers not involved in the Europeans + the "out of radar" appearance of Rachele Bruni in the 6th stage)...

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I don't follow too much of marathon swimming, but I think these two Canadian stages are always held during either Olympics, Worlds, or Europeans. It's quite ridiculous.

[phelps 7,768]

Swimming Marathon World Cup stage #7 (September 16th, 2018 @ Chun'An, CHN)

 

Men's 10km
Gold: Jack Burnell
Silver: Rob Muffels
Bronze: Gregorio Paltrinieri

(4th, Ferry Weertman)

 

Women's 10km
Gold: Xin Xin
Silver: Leonie Beck
Bronze: Ana Marcela Cunha

(4th, Sharon Van Rouwendaal)

 

Back to the "normal" World Series races, with a really qualified lineup, including also the 1500m Freestyle World & Olympic Champion Gregorio Paltrinieri, at his second Open Water Series competition ever...

Both races were held in very complicated conditions, with very hot water (and many athletes were happy to test themselves in this circumstance because that's what probably they will have to face also in Tokyo 2020)...

More news here (Full Results, as usual, are not available yet, as often happens with events held in China ):

http://www.fina.org/news/xin-chn-wins-home-first-2018-gold-burnell-gbr

Edited September 17, 2018 by phelps

[phelps 7,768]

  On 9/17/2018 at 8:19 AM, dcro said:

 

I don't follow too much of marathon swimming, but I think these two Canadian stages are always held during either Olympics, Worlds, or Europeans. It's quite ridiculous.

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yes, we can say they are quite "disgraced" races, that almost never have a really intriguing starting field...

I also think FINA shoul do something for that...moving them in the calendar, cancelling them or anything else I don't know right now...but frankly it's completely senseless leaving those races just like they are now...