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The river has been unsafe to swim in for nearly a century, making it a huge deal for the two-time Olympian.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it definitely will change the way that people see the river,\u201d Smoliga told <a href=\"https:\/\/blockclubchicago.org\/2025\/09\/21\/swimmers-return-to-chicago-river-for-1st-time-in-a-century-the-river-is-so-clean\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Block Club Chicago.<\/a> \u201cTruthfully, whenever we\u2019d do a boat tour \u2014 hey, I\u2019m ready to jump in it. I want to jump in, always, so the fact that I was able to do it and (Chicago) cleaned it up, it\u2019s so nice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>More than 300 open-water swimmers had the same historic feel for the Chicago River on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The course was from the Dearborn Street bridge to Wolf Point and back to the Clark Street bridge. Spectators watched the 1- and 2-mile swims from the Riverwalk area.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cReclaiming our river not only creates a recreational space for residents and visitors, but it also puts us on the map, along with other global destinations, where open-water swims have become part of city culture,\u201d Chicago Mayor <strong>Brandon Johnson<\/strong> told <a href=\"https:\/\/chicago.suntimes.com\/outdoors\/2025\/09\/21\/swim-chicago-river-race-outdoors\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Chicago Sun Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Smoliga won her race in 22:45, besting the field by about 15 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>She wasn&#8217;t the only USA National Team member to participate.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Becca Mann<\/strong> won the 2-mile non-wetsuit race in 40:07, winning by close to 5 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWater was beautiful, very clear,\u201d Mann told the <em>Chicago Sun Times<\/em>. \u201cEvery time I breathed, I could see the city around me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wheaton College junior <strong>Isaac Eilmes<\/strong> won the men\u2019s 2-mile in 40:13.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Levy Nathan<\/strong> won the non-wetsuit men&#8217;s race in 22:22, ahead by 32 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>In the wetsuit division, 41-year-old <strong>Jessica Achtstatter<\/strong> won the women\u2019s 1-mile in 23:57, finishing more than seven minutes ahead of the field.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Liz Spears<\/strong>, 25, won the women\u2019s 2-mile race by six seconds.<\/p>\n<p>For the men, <strong>Joe Higgins<\/strong>, 41, won the 1-mile wetsuit in 23:12. <strong>William Sindewald<\/strong>,39, won the 2-mile wetsuit race in 48.27, besting the field by nearly five minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Olivia Smoliga, Becca Mann Win First Chicago River Swims in Nearly a Century The Chicago River hosted its first open water swim since 1926 on Sunday, and Olympian Olivia Smoliga<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3915,"featured_media":580173,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,122077,11,68439,7],"tags":[28759,1243,136815,136814,26904],"class_list":["post-622940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-americas","category-open-water","category-tritonwear-swimmer-of-the-month","category-usa","tag-becca-mann","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-river","tag-chicago-river-swim","tag-olivia-smoliga"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.3 (Yoast SEO v24.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\r\n<title>Chicago River Swim: Olivia Smoliga, Becca Mann Win<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Olivia Smoliga, Becca Mann Win First Chicago River Swims in Nearly a Century. 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