Lake Ohrid in North Macedonia will play host to the first FINA UltraMarathon Swim Series of the 2021 season.
Several big names of the discipline
are highlighting the line-up: World champion (5km, Team event, 2017) and Rio
2016 bronze medallist Marc-Antoine Olivier of France, also winner in Doha 2021
10km Marathon Swim World Series and 6th at Tokyo 2020, as well as France’s Axel
Reymond, World champion (2019, 25km), and successful athletes Evgenij Pop Acev
(MKD) and Marcel Schouten (NED).
Amongst the female participants are
Oceane Cassignol (FRA), Doha 10km silver medallist, and veteran Pilar Geijo of
Argentina. Full Entries available here https://resources.fina.org/fina/document/2021/08/17/318e40eb-c22e-4370-90c7-e6748294ac4d/Athlete-Entries.pdf
The 25km swim to take place on
Saturday August 21 at 12:00 (local time).
The 2020 edition of for the
UltraMarathon meet in Ohrid has been cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic but
the 2019 rendezvous in Novi (CRO) was topped by Angela Maurer (GER) and Edoardo
Stochino (ITA) respectively.
The UltraMarathon circuit next stops
in Capri/Napoli (ITA) on September 5.
Next weekend, on Saturday August 28,
Ohrid will also stage the second leg of the 2021 FINA / CSNG Marathon Swim
World Series. The inaugural leg in Doha at the beginning of the year was marked
by France’s success with a victory for Marc-Antoine Olivier and a second place
for Oceane Cassignol, while brand new Olympic champion Ana Marcela Cunha of
Brazil clinched gold.
Still in Doha in March, Lea Boy of
Germany closed the podium, while Hungary's Kristof Rasovszky was second and
Italy’s Gregorio Paltrinieri took bronze.
Results will be displayed on FINA
website. https://www.fina.org/results?year=2021&month=latest&disciplines=
Fédération Internationale de Natation
(FINA)
The Fédération Internationale de
Natation, founded in 1908, is the governing body for aquatics worldwide. FINA's
five discipline Swimming, Open Water Swimming, Diving, Water Polo and Artistic
Swimming - are all included in the Olympic programme. High Diving made its
first appearance in FINA events at the 2013 FINA World Championships. FINA
counts 209 affiliated National Federations on the five continents and has its
headquarters in Lausanne (SUI).
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