{"id":629961,"date":"2026-01-04T05:25:41","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T12:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=629961"},"modified":"2026-01-04T09:28:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T16:28:12","slug":"florian-wellbrock-moesha-johnson-crowned-world-aquatics-open-water-swimmers-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/florian-wellbrock-moesha-johnson-crowned-world-aquatics-open-water-swimmers-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Florian Wellbrock, Moesha Johnson Crowned World Aquatics Open Water Swimmers of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"

Florian Wellbrock, Moesha Johnson crowned World Aquatics Open Water Swimmers of the Year<\/strong><\/p>\n

Florian Wellbrock<\/strong> and Moesha Johnson<\/strong> were named by World Aquatics as its Open Water Swimmers of the Year for 2025<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The choice for Wellbrock was a no-brainer after his clean sweep of titles<\/a> at the World Aquatics Championships in Singapore. The German won the 10-kilometer race, the 5km and the 3km knockout sprints. He also was part of the German squad (Celine Rieder, Oliver Klemet, Isabel Gose<\/strong>) that won the 4×1500 relay. He is only the third man to win both the 5km and 10km races at the same World Championships.<\/p>\n