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| World Open Water Swimming competition 2002 | ||
| The second World championship of Open Water swimming
will start from the Hilton Farouz hotel beach on the 23rd September. It
is open to teams from around the world with 25 countrys taking part and
over 90 swimmers. The 3 races are over 5Km. 10Km and 25Km. The 5 and 10Km races are around Nama Bay and the 25Km is to Sharm town and back to Nama Bay. |
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Monday 23rd Sept Left: The Womens 5Km race was completed in 56min. Won by Italian, second Nehterlands and third Switzerland Right: The mens 5Km race competitors assemble for the start.. |
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The 10Km race was on the 25th Sept. I have not been able to get any photos,
but the winners of the mens race was a Russian in 109 minutes, with an
Italian 4 seconds behind him and a third place Russian 1 second behind
him. The womens 10Km race was even closer with the winning German just 3 hundreds of a second in front of a Italian. Her time was 116 minutes. The third place German was 7 seconds behind |
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