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On the female side, Brazil&#8217;s <strong>Ana Marcela Cunha<\/strong> is fully focused on what she can do without lane lines. On the men&#8217;s side, Germany&#8217;s <strong>Florian<\/strong> <strong>Wellbrock<\/strong> opts to split his concentration between the pool and open water. Despite their different approaches, Cunha and Wellbrock ended up in the same place for the Year, named Swimming World&#8217;s Open-Water Swimmers of the Year. Here is a look at what they achieved.<\/p>\n<h3>Ana Marcela Cunha<\/h3>\n<p>Ana Marcela Cunha continues to be the world\u2019s most dominant woman in open water, capturing Swimming World\u2019s Female Open Water Swimmer of the Year title in 2019 and 2021. (Because of the COVID pandemic, the award was not presented in 2020).\u00a0In the biggest race of the past five years, the Brazilian star was at her best at this past summer\u2019s Tokyo Olympic Games, surging to the 10K open water gold medal.<\/p>\n<p>Twenty-five women qualified for the race, which began at Odaiba Marine Park.\u00a0She didn\u2019t lead from the outset. In fact, she didn\u2019t even lead for most of the course. It was Ashley Twichell who set the pace and led for most of the race, but Cunha swam right with the American. Germany\u2019s Leonie Beck went into the top group on Lap Six of the seven-lap course, but once Cunha got back in front early in the final lap, she never surrendered the lead.<\/p>\n<p>But it wasn\u2019t as simple as it might sound.<\/p>\n<p>As Cunha tried to break away late in the race, two swimmers managed to stay close: the Netherlands\u2019 Sharon van Rouwendaal and Australia\u2019s Kareena Lee. Van Rouwendaal, the defending gold medalist from the 2016 Olympics in Rio, had a similar race strategy as Cunha and used a late surge to earn the silver medal in Tokyo.<\/p>\n<p>After nearly two hours of swimming, Cunha was able to maintain her body-length lead over van Rouwendaal, getting to the touchpad less than a second ahead of her Dutch rival, 1:59:30.8 to 1:59:31.7 &#8211; and only 1.7 seconds ahead of Lee at 1:59:32.5. The gold was Cunha\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/olympics-ana-marcela-cunha-claims-gold-in-10k-2016-champion-van-rouwendaal-earns-silver\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">first Olympic medal<\/a> and the second medal for Brazil in open water, as Poliana Okimoto took bronze at Rio.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is my third Olympic Games,\u201d Cunha said after the race. \u201cIn 2008, I had no chance, in 2012 I didn\u2019t qualify, and Rio 2016 was not the result we expected. We arrived here in Tokyo wanting &#8211; as much as you can &#8211; this medal, and around 10 days (before the race), I said to my coach that for my opponents to win this race, it will be very difficult because I want it so hard, so much\u2026and I\u2019m really well-prepared.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Florian Wellbrock<\/h3>\n<p>In 2019, Florian Wellbrock was the world\u2019s premier distance swimmer both in the pool and in open water. The German was actually competing in open water for the first time at the World Championships, and he emerged with a gold medal in the 10K race, edging out France\u2019s Marc-Antoine Olivier by just 2-tenths to capture the world title. A week-and-a-half later, Wellbrock out-dueled rivals Mykhailo Romanchuk and Gregorio Paltrinieri to win the world title in the 1500 freestyle. He set himself up to head to the Tokyo Olympics as a favorite in both events after finishing just 32nd in the 1500 at his first Games in Rio.<\/p>\n<p>But Wellbrock\u2019s Olympics did not get off to the best start in his first event, the 800 freestyle. It was no surprise to see Wellbrock battling Romanchuk and Paltrinieri for the majority of the race, and Wellbrock took over the lead with 50 meters to go. But on the last length, American Bobby Finke stormed from a second-and-a-half back to steal away the gold medal. At the same time, both Paltrinieri and Romanchuk passed Wellbrock, and he was denied a chance to win his first Olympic medal.<\/p>\n<p>Three days later, Wellbrock swam in the 1500 free Olympic final, and he led for most of the race. With only 50 meters to go, the margin was 7-tenths over Romanchuk and Finke. Finke went crazy once again and sprinted ahead of the field to win gold &#8211; and Romanchuk, too, turned on the afterburners. Wellbrock hung on to win bronze, but it was a rough end to his week in the pool.<\/p>\n<p>But Wellbrock still had to race in the open water 10K, and this time, he finished. Wellbrock went out hard and held the lead for most of the race, only briefly surrendering the lead to France\u2019s Olivier. 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