2024 OPEN WATER SWIMMING WORLD CUP
Reigning Olympic champion Ana Marcela Cunha gained her first worldwide open water race since present process ought to surgical procedure in late 2022, beating Brazilian teammate Viviane Jungblut (2:02:02.00) and 2023 world champion Leonie Beck (2:02:02.20) within the 10-kilometer finally week’s World Cup cease in Golfo Aranci, Italy.
The victory is a superb signal for the 32-year-old Cunha forward of subsequent month’s Paris Olympics, the place she’s aiming to grow to be the primary swimmer to repeat as Olympic champion within the 10km contest happening (hopefully) within the Seine River. Since her triumph in Tokyo a couple of years in the past, she has positioned third within the occasion on the 2022 World Championships, fifth at 2023 Worlds, and tied for 4th at this yr’s Worlds in February.
Defending world champion Sharon Van Rouwendaal of the Netherlands constructed a commanding lead on the ultimate lap, however Cunha and Beck started to rally with round 700 meters remaining. It was an all-out dash to the end line, with simply three tenths of a second separating Jungblut, Beck, and Van Rouwendaal (2:02:02.30) within the battle for 2nd place.
It’s a 1-2 for 🇧🇷 BRAZIL within the Ladies’s 10km #OpenWater pic.twitter.com/WelVHI3Rus
— World Aquatics (@WorldAquatics) Might 24, 2024
Rising Indiana senior Mariah Denigan positioned tenth (2:02:07.10) behind France’s Caroline Jouisse (2:02:04.70), Hungary’s Bettina Fabian (2:02:04.80), Japan’s Airi Ebina (2:02:04.90), Italy’s Ginevra Taddeucci (2:02:05.00), and Portugal’s Angelica Andre (2:02:05.40). Denigan, a 21-year-old American, certified for the Paris Olympics with a Sixth-place end at February’s World Championships.
Beck now leads the rankings after two World Cup stops after successful the primary leg in Soma Bay again in March.
On the boys’s facet, France secured a 1-2 end behind sturdy performances by Marc-Antoine Olivier (1:50:03.00) and Logan Fontaine (1:50:04.40). Lower than half a second separated Fontaine and the Hungarian duo of Kristof Rasovszky (1:50:04.50) and David Betlehem (1:50:04.80).
Olivier bounced again with a win in Golfo Aranci after lacking the rostrum with a 4th-place effort on the first World Cup cease in March in Soma Bay, Egypt. The 27-year-old leads the general World Cup rankings via two stops forward of Betlehem, who positioned fifth in Soma Bay.
#OpenWater race development of the Males’s 10km on the second cease of the World Cup in Golfo Aranci😱 pic.twitter.com/aBJgTZ6ws7
— World Aquatics (@WorldAquatics) Might 31, 2024
The final Open Water World Cup tune-up earlier than the Paris Olympics is slated for June 1-2 in Setubal, Portugal.
