A roadmap to follow for marathon swimming during the Paris Olympics.
FILE - Florian Wellbrock , of Germany, competes in the men’s marathon swimming event at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Thursday, Aug. 5, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan. Wellbrock is the defending Olympic champion who qualified for Paris with a wire-to-wire victory in the marathon swimming event at the 2023 world championships. FILE - Kristof Rasovszky of Hungary swims to win the men’s 10 km open water final at the World Aquatics Championships in Doha, Qatar, Sunday, Feb. 4, 2024.
—Kristof Rasovszky, Hungary: He won the men’s open water title at the world championships in Doha, Qatar, in February after finishing with the silver medal behind Wellbrock at the Tokyo Olympics and at the 2023 worlds in Fukuoka, Japan. —Sharon van Rouwendaal, Netherlands: The 30-year-old Dutch swimmer won Olympic gold at Rio de Janeiro in 2016 and was the silver medalist in the open water event in Tokyo. She surged to the finish at the worlds in February to win, beating Maria de Valdes of Spain and Angelica Andre of Portugal in the 10-kilometer race. It was her second world title in three years in the event. She also won the 5K race.after heavy rain. But French authorities are more confident about the Olympic program.
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