The good news for swimming fans across the globe is that all the action didn’t shut down after the world championships. Â Unlike a other sports, the action keeps unfolding on with world stage. Â This was true this past week at the FINA 10K marathon swimming world cup in Megantic Canada. Â The Megantic course is interested insofar as it’s a point to point swim. Â The swimmers faced strong winds with slowed the typical 10K times in this race. Â In fact, conditions were so challenging only 9 women finished the race under the finish requirement (swimmers must finish within 3o minutes of the winner to have a time qualification).
On the men’s side it was Thomas Lurz of Germany who topped the podium with a time of 2:15.35. Â Lurz’s performance comes off an incredible showing at the recent world championships where he won 2 gold and 1 bronze medal. Â Germany’s Christian Reichert took silver (2:15.36) just one second behind Lurz and Brazil’s Samuel De Bona was 3rd (2:15.38).
For the women it was Italy’s Martina Grimaldi who took top honors completing the swim in 2:26.52. Â The next 3 places went to Team USA. Â Christine Jennings won the silver in 2:26.53, Emily Brunemann grabbed the bronze in 2:26.55 and Eva Fabian was 4th in 2:26.56.
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Next on the FINA 10K world cup circuit is Shantou China on September 29th.