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HYDE PARK, London. July 17. SWIMMERS from 34 countries on 5 continents are entered in the Olympic 10km Marathon Swim at the 2012 London Olympic Games.<\/p>\n

From small countries (Guam) to large ones (China), from land-locked countries (Hungary) to island nations (Great Britain), from tropical countries (Malaysia) to mountainous ones (Switzerland), from those on the Mediterranean (Tunisia) to those bordering the Pacific, the 50 athletes are a global mix and represent well the international community of open water swimmers.<\/p>\n

The athletes, by country, are listed below:<\/p>\n

1. Germany: Angela Maurer<\/a>, Thomas Lurz<\/a> and Andreas Waschburger<\/a>
\n2. Russia: Anna Guseva<\/a>, Sergey Bolshakov<\/a> and Vladimir Dyatchin<\/a>
\n3. Great Britain: Keri-Anne Payne<\/a> and Daniel Fogg<\/a>
\n4. Italy: Martina Grimaldi<\/a> and Valerio Cleri<\/a>
\n5. Greece: Marianna Lymperta<\/a> and Spyros Gianniotis<\/a>
\n6. Spain: Erika Villaecija<\/a> and Francisco Hervas<\/a>
\n7. Australia: Melissa Gorman<\/a> and Ky Hurst<\/a>
\n8. U.S.A.: Haley Anderson<\/a> and Alex Meyer<\/a>
\n9. Canada: Zsofia Balazs<\/a> and Richard Weinberger<\/a>
\n10. Japan: Yumi Kida<\/a> and Yasunari Hirai<\/a>
\n11. France: Ophelie Aspord<\/a> and Julien Sauvage<\/a>
\n12. Ukraine: Olga Beresnyeva<\/a> and Igor Chervynskiy<\/a>
\n13. Venezuela: Yanel Pinto<\/a> and Erwin Maldonado<\/a>
\n14. Hungary: Eva Risztov<\/a> and Csaba Gercsak<\/a>
\n16. South Africa: Jessica Roux<\/a> and Troyden Prinsloo<\/a>
\n17. Argentina: Cecilia Biagioli<\/a>
\n18. Brazil: Poliana Okimoto<\/a>
\n19. Czech Republic: Jana Pechanova<\/a>
\n20. Switzerland: Swann Oberson<\/a>
\n21. China: Yanqiao Fang<\/a>
\n22. Poland: Natalia Charlos<\/a>
\n23. Croatia: Karla Sitic<\/a>
\n24. Hong Kong: Wing Yung Natasha Terri Tang<\/a>
\n25. Malaysia: Heidi Gan<\/a>
\n26. Mexico: Lizeth Rueda Santos<\/a>
\n27. Belgium: Brian Ryckeman<\/a>
\n28. Tunisia: Oussama Mellouli<\/a>
\n29. Bulgaria: Petar Stoychev<\/a>
\n30. Ecuador: Ivan Enderica Ochoa<\/a>
\n31. Portugal: Arseniy Lavrentyev<\/a>
\n32. Kazakhstan: Yuriy Kudinov<\/a>
\n33. Guam: Benjamin Schulte<\/a>
\n34. Egypt: Mazen Aziz<\/a><\/p>\n

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