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SETUBAL BAY, Portugal. June 1. A swim-off is the ultimate head-to-head battle in swimming. <\/p>\n

In an unusual situation in Portugal's Setubal Bay<\/a> next week, the 2012 FINA Olympic 10km Marathon Swimming Qualifier<\/a> will essentially be a swim-off<\/a> between teammates from each country.<\/p>\n

The award? A spot in the Olympic 10km Marathon Swim<\/a> finals in London.<\/p>\n

So while a typical swim-off is a short-distance race (50m or 100m) between two swimmers in a pool with the carrot of being able to swim in a finals, this swim-off in Setubal Bay<\/a> is a number of 10,000-meter mano-a-mano contests held simultaneously between athletes from numerous countries. Fifteen hard-working athletes will earn the right to represent themselves and their country in the Olympic finals in front of tens of thousands of fans in the Serpentine in London – the rest will go home. Such is the competitive and cruel world of sports.<\/p>\n

So while they are swimming against their fellow teammate, they are also competing against the world and must finish in the top 15 to go to the Olympics.<\/p>\n

The following 62 men are entered and ready to enter this battle: no lanes, no lines, no walls…no mercy. <\/p>\n

Damian Blaum<\/a> vs. Luciano Sales Rubio<\/a> (ARG)
\n Matthias Schweinzer<\/a> (AUT)
\n Sergiy Fesenko<\/a> (AZE)
\n Allan Do Carmo<\/a> vs. Lucas Kanieski<\/a> (BRA)
\n Petar Stoychev<\/a> vs. Ventsislav Aydarski<\/a> (BUL)
\n Richard Weinberger<\/a> vs. Francois Xavier Desharnais<\/a> (CAN)
\n Lijun Zu<\/a> vs. Yuanpeng Lang<\/a> (CHN)
\n Kurt Niehaus<\/a> (CRC)
\n Tomislav Soldo<\/a> vs. Josip Culina<\/a> (CRO)
\n Iacovos Hadjiconstantinou<\/a> (CYP)
\n Rostislav V?tek<\/a> vs. Jan Po?mourn?<\/a> (CZE)
\n Santiago Enderica Salgado<\/a> vs. Ivan Enderica Ochoa<\/a> (ECU)
\n Mazen Aziz<\/a> vs. Ahmed Gad<\/a> (EGY)
\n David Davies<\/a> vs. Daniel Fogg<\/a> (GBR)
\n Benjamin Schulte<\/a> (GUM)
\n Tin Yu Ling<\/a> vs. Yeung Lee<\/a> (HKG)
\n Csaba Gercsak<\/a> vs. Gergely Gyurta<\/a> (HUN)
\n Divase Mandar Anadarao<\/a> (IND)
\n Chris Bryan<\/a> (IRL)
\n Michael Dmitriev<\/a> vs. Yuval Safra<\/a> (ISR)
\n Nicola Bolzonello<\/a> vs. Valerio Cleri<\/a> (ITA)
\n Yasunari Hirai<\/a> vs. Yuto Kobayashi<\/a> (JPN)
\n Yuriy Kudinov<\/a> (KAZ)
\n Said Saber<\/a> vs. Mohammed El Mehdi Essadiq<\/a> (MAR)
\n Ivan De Jesus Lopez Ramos<\/a> vs. Luis Ricardo Escobar Torres<\/a> (MEX)
\n Marcel Schouten<\/a> vs. Ferry Weertman<\/a> (NED)
\n Kane Radford<\/a> vs. Jonathan Pullon<\/a> (NZL)
\n Ahmed Gebrel<\/a> (PLE)
\n Arseniy Lavrentyev<\/a> vs. Vasco Gaspar<\/a> (POR)
\n Gabriel Moldoveanu<\/a> (ROU)
\n Troyden Prinsloo<\/a> vs. Chad Ho<\/a> (RSA)
\n Stefan Sigrist<\/a> vs. Jovan Mitrovic<\/a> (SUI)
\n Saleh Mohammad<\/a> (SYR)
\n Oussama Mellouli<\/a> (TUN)
\n Igor Snitko<\/a> vs. Igor Chervynskiy<\/a> (UKR)
\n Erwin Maldonado<\/a> vs. Johndry Segovia<\/a> (VEN) <\/p>\n

Courtesy of Open Water Source<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"