The world round competition in open water swimming will be held next weekend in Eilat (Thursday to Saturday, 10-12.11) and with the closing of the international registration the full picture of the participants will be revealed, which means - this is the largest and highest quality round competition held in Israel in the sport.
About 100 swimmers from abroad from 26 different countries will take part in the round, and dozens more Israeli men and women, including the top men and women in the industry. The attractive 10 km swim will call 5 of the 6 first places in the men's Olympic swim from Tokyo, including The Israeli Matan Roditi who finished in fourth place, and 4 of the top 5 for the women.
Among the prominent names from abroad are the Olympic champion Mario, the vice champion from Tokyo and the former world record holder Gregorio Paltrineri of Italy, his teammate of the new European champion Domenico Acherenza, the Olympic vice champion Krzysztof Razovsky of Hungary, the Olympic medalist Marc Olivier of France, the world youth champion David Bethlehem and more. In the women's category, the two last Olympic champions will compete head to head - the Brazilian Anna Konya and the Dutch Sharon van Roendal. Together with them will fight the new European champion Leonie Beck of Germany, the fourth place in Tokyo and the European runner-up Anna Olash of Hungary and more.
The competition will be held at the religious beach in the southern city and will last three days, from Thursday to Saturday, with the Israel Championship 3 km swim on Thursday, the Israel Championship and the relay round on Friday and the highlight on Saturday morning with the attractive 10 km swim.
This is the last competition in the world tour for 2022, and therefore particularly prestigious, since at the end of it the champion and champion of the FINA tour will be crowned and prizes with a total value of about 140 thousand dollars will be awarded.
Chairman of the swimming association Miki Halika: "We are happy that the world association gave us the opportunity to host the most important competition in the round, the concluding competition of the year.
I am excited to see the great response of the best teams in the world.
We have great beaches in Israel in general and in Eilat in particular, and it is not for nothing that the best female and senior swimmers come to compete here.
On this occasion, I invite the Eilat audience to come to the beach and watch the fascinating competitions."
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