The largest-ever fields in the event\u2019s history are gathering in Gravelines for the second stop of the LEN European Open Water Cup. The discipline\u2019s greatest stars will line up for the race, Olympic and World champions \u2013 altogether 211 swimmers.<\/p>\n
As the highlight race of the French national championships, the 10km events will be held on Thursday (31 May) and the quality will be as high as at any World Champs or Olympic marathons. With 94 women and 117 men taking part, these are going to be the largest ever races in the history of the LEN European Open Water Cup.<\/p>\n
France was the top nation in last year\u2019s World Champs in Hungary, amassing four titles in seven races and now all of their world champions, including Marc-Antoine Olivier<\/strong>, Axel Reymond<\/strong> and Aurelie Muller<\/strong>, will battle for the title.<\/p>\n However, a swift challenge from other foreign stars is foreseen, above all the two Dutch Olympic champions Ferry Weertman<\/strong> and Sharon van Rouwendaal<\/strong> will also swim for the glory and to make this event really special, non-European superstars will also show up on the starting pontoon. Since this is an open event, the entries from world champions like Brazil\u2019s Ana Marcela Cunha<\/strong> and USA\u2019s Ashley Twichell<\/strong> were also accepted.<\/p>\n In cooperation with leading sport TV channel BeinSports, both 10km races will be broadcasted live and can be followed on the LEN website: the men\u2019s race is set to start from 11.00 while the women\u2019s competition kicks at from 15.30.<\/p>\n Leg 1, 25 March \u2013 Eilat (ISR)<\/i><\/p>\n Leg 2, 31 May \u2013 Gravelines (FRA)<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/b><\/p>\n Leg 3, 30 June \u2013 Barcelona (ESP)<\/p>\n Leg 4, 28 July \u2013 Navia (ESP)<\/p>\n Leg 5, 25 August \u2013 Copenhagen (DEN)<\/p>\n Leg 6, 9 September \u2013 Bled (SLO)<\/p>\n The above press release was posted by Swimming World in conjunction with LEN European Aquatics. For press releases and advertising inquiries please contact\u00a0Advertising@SwimmingWorld.com<\/b>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The largest-ever fields in the event\u2019s history are gathering in Gravelines for the second stop of the LEN European Open Water Cup. The discipline\u2019s greatest stars will line up for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":108028,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[27981,27991,53277,32864,51221,68239,68240,42486,25089,27568],"class_list":["post-311870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-water","tag-ana-marcela-cunha","tag-ashley-twichell","tag-aurelie-muller","tag-axel-reymond","tag-ferry-weertman","tag-len-european-open-water-cup","tag-len-open-water-cup","tag-marc-antoine-olivier","tag-open-water-swimming","tag-sharon-van-rouwendaal"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\r\nLEN Open Water Cup \u2013 2018<\/h3>\n