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Argentina Wins 88-Kilometer Swims In Home Waters
Published:February 11, 2013
LAUSANNE, Switzerland, February 11. TWENTY-FOUR swimmers (14 men, 10
women) participated on February 10 in the longest race of the FINA Open Water
Swimming Grand Prix 2013, a 88km-effort in Hernandarias (ARG). Local heroes
Luciano Sales Rubio (men) and Pilar Geijo (Women) won their races, in a time of
9h39m42s00 and 9h49m53s00 respectively.
It was the first triumph of the season for Sales Rubio -- fourth in Santa
Fe (ARG) -- and for Geijo, also fourth on the second leg of the series, and
eighth in Rosario, at the opening of the circuit.
Among men, Damian Blaum, also from Argentina, earned silver in a time
9h39m42s09, while Saleh Mohammad (SYR) got the bronze in 9h39m42s11. Blaum had
been third in Santa Fe, and Mohammad's best result in 2013 was a seventh place
in Rosario. Medallist in Santa Fe (silver) and Rosario (bronze), Guillermo
Bertola (ARG) was fifth in Hernandarias. The winner of the two first races also
in Argentina, Simone Ercoli, from Italy, did not take part in this longer
effort.
In the women's field, Geijo was followed by Russia's Olga Kozydub (silver
in 9h49m53s42), and by Esther Nunez (ESP), third in 9h56m48s56. Kozydub had
previously been first in Santa Fe and third in Rosario, while Nunez was the
winner in Rosario and got the bronze in Santa Fe.
The race between Hernandarias and Parana was the third and last in
Argentina. The series will now move to the northern part of the American
continent, with the next three legs in Mexico and Canada, before concluding
with two events in Europe -- Ohrid (MKD) and Capri-Napoli (ITA).
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