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By Phillip Whitten HONOLULU, October 31. COMPETITION begins this morning on Waikiki Beach for the first FINA World Open Water Swimming Championships. Some 164 competitors representing 34 nations are expected to compete in the clear blue waters of Waikiki in three official open water events: the 5K (...

Ana Marcela Cunha of Brazil topped the field to win the women's 25K open water title at the 2015 FINA World Championships in Kazan, Russia. Cunha clocked a time of 5:13:47.3 for the victory.  That's her second win ever in the event, matching her triumph in 2011. That made her just the fourth woman t...

LONDON, Aug. 27. EUROPEAN swimmers continued to dominate open water swimming as they have all year. In the London leg of the FINA Marathon World Cup at the Albert Dock on Saturday, Europeans swept five of the six medal spots. Only Argentina's Gabriel Chaillou, who finished second in the men'...

July 16, ATLANTIC CITY. SPAIN'S David Meca-Medina, seeking vindication after his win in Atlantic City last year was overturned by FINA for a drug violation, left no doubt that he is King of the Boardwalk, when he won the men's division of the 37-kilometer (22.5-mile) Atlantic City Marathon i...

February 19. WORLD OPEN WATER Champions David Meca-Medina, of Spain, and Edith Van Dijk, of Holland, continued to dominate their opposition, no matter what the distance, on the FINA Marathon World Cup circuit. Competing in the first two events in the series, Meca won both men's contests while Va...

HONOLULU, October 31. GERMANY'S Peggy Buchse and Russia's Evgueni Bezroutchenko were the winners of the 5 kilometer race, the first event at the First FINA World Open Water Swimming Championships, held today at Waikiki Beach in Honolulu, Hawaii. Buchse won the women's event in one hour, ...