Courtesy: LEN
No stopping in the LEN Open Water
Cup, one week after the leg in Barcelona, a star-studded field is coming together once more, featuring
Olympic, world and European medallists, this time in Piombino.
Piombino welcomes back Europe’s best
open water swimmers: though it’s traditional stop for the LEN Open Water Cup, the Sunday competitions’ line
up more stars than ever.
Among the men, Italy’s king of the
distance, Olympic bronze medallist and reigning European champion Gregorio Paltrinieri will head a 10 men
strong host squad, while Olympic silver medallist and 5km world title-holder Kristof Rasovszky is the leading
name among the Hungarians who also entered 10 male swimmers for this leg. The Russians and the
French show up in big numbers too and the Gaul team includes the 25km European gold medallist
Axel Reymond.
The women’s race may offer a great
comeback: three-time world champion Aurelie Muller is set to swim an open water race again. Gold medallist in
the 10km both in 2015 and 2017, the Frenchwoman had to leave her Olympics-related disappointment behind
(she was disqualified in Rio despite finishing second, then missed the cut for Tokyo by tenths of a
second) and now she may have a fresh start in her once beloved discipline.
She faces some challenge, though, as
the Italians showed some strength in the previous two legs (finished 1-2 in Ohrid and came 3-4th in Barcelona) and
now they’ll send ten female warriors to the battlefield. European silver medallist and Olympic 4Anna
Olasz of Hungary will also make a shot on the medals and the prize money coming with them.
Altogether 54 men and 40 women from
14 countries will take part in the hunt on Sunday – the start is set at 9.30 in the morning.
LEN Open Water Cup, Season 2021
Leg 1: 14 August – Ohrid (MKD)
Winners: Marc-Antoine Olivier (FRA)
& Martina de Memme (ITA)
Leg 2: 19 September – Rijeka (CRO)
Cancelled
Leg 3: 25 September – Barcelona (ESP)
Winners: Florian Wellbrock (GER)
& Jeanette Spiwoks (GER)
Leg 4: 3 October – Piombino (ITA)
Leg 5: 9 October – Alghero (ITA)
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