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Australia Banking on Brazilian Coach Fernando Possenti To Bring The Midas Touch To Its Olympic Marathon Program<\/strong><\/p>\n

Swimming Australia is hoping the appointment of Brazilian Fernando Possenti<\/strong> as it’s new Open Water Head Coach will provide the golden glow to its open water program for LA28 and towards Brisbane 2032.<\/p>\n

A world-wide recruitment search secured the high-profile appointment of Brazil’s highly regarded Olympic coach, who guided the country’s open water legend Ana Marcela Cunh <\/strong>\u00a0to seven World Championships and Olympic 10km gold at the Tokyo Olympics.<\/p>\n

Marathon gold at the Olympics has been the one color missing from the Australian Teams medal tally over the past five Olympics in Beijing, London, Rio, Tokyo and Paris.<\/p>\n

And Swimming Australia is banking on the well credentialled Brazilian as the man to provide the Midas Touch.<\/p>\n

Possenti, whose athletes have won 14 medals at various World Championships, will step into the vacant High Performance Open Water Role in 2025 \u2013 a role which has been vacant since Greg Shaw<\/strong> was elevated to Executive General Manager of High Performance just prior to Paris Olympics.<\/p>\n

Possenti, who has more than 20 years of coaching experience, is currently serving as a pool and open water\u00a0coach for the Brazilian Olympic Committee and will start in the new role in 2025 in time for the Australian Open Water Nationals in Busselton late January.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am excited to help with the strategies and insights in converting the enormous potential that Australia has for open water and to collaborate with a united and lively group. Of course, I am very grateful for the support I have always received in Brazil,\u201d Possenti said today.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut at this moment in life it is time to test new waters and this challenge gives me the opportunity of being able to channel all my energy and work focus with an incredible and highly qualified team. Swimming Australia has a clear strategy to evolve the open water program with its focus on excellence.\u201d<\/p>\n

Executive General Manager of High Performance Shaw added: \u201cThe open water program is extremely excited to welcome Fernando into the role.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHis coaching experience speaks for itself and his dynamic and innovative ideas on how to design durable swimmers with broad skills to win when it matters will bring new ideas into Australian open water swimming and drive us to success in LA and beyond to Brisbane.\u201d<\/p>\n

Australia\u2019s open water program has gone from strength to strength with the outstanding performances of Kareena Lee<\/strong> (Bronze, 10km Tokyo) and Moesha Johnson<\/strong> (Silver 10km Tokyo) as well as Australia\u2019s outstanding efforts at the 2023 World\u2019s where Cghelsea Gubecka won silver in the 10km and the 2024 World\u2019s where Johnson, Gubecka,\u00a0\u00a0won the coveted Teams 4x1500m Relay.<\/p>\n

Johnson, Lee and Sloman had also swum their way into the Top 10 at the 2024 Doha World\u2019s giving Australia a full complement of four athletes for the first time since the 10km was added to the Olympic program in 2008.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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