NAPOLI, ITALY–Germany’s Angela Maurer and Australia’s Josh Santacaterina were the women’s and men’s 25K winners at the 2006 Open Water Worlds which concluded on September 3, in Napoli, Italy.
Fourteen men and ten women completed their respective races. Top-5 finishers from those are:
Women’s 25K (Saturday, Sept. 2)
1. Angela Maurer, Germany–6:22:46.9
2. Natalia Pankina, Russia–6:22:47.8
3. Ksenia Popova, Russia–6:22:51.3
4. Erica Rose, USA–6:24:13.7
5. Stefanie Biller, Germany–6:24:18.5
**webmaster’s note – how much would it stink to swim for 6 hours and 22 minutes only to lose by 9/10′s of a second…jeez
Men’s 25K (Sunday, Sept. 3)
1. Josh Santacaterina, Australia–5:47:34.1
2. Yuri Kudinov, Russia–5:48:56.9
3. Petar Stoychev, Bulgaria–5:49:00.2
4. Andrea Volpini, Italy–5:49:05.9
5. Mohammed El Zanaty, Egypt–5:49:40.7
Top-5 teams overall from Napoli are:
1. Russia–133 points (highest women’s score: 86)
2. Germany–99
3. Italy–88 (highest men’s score: 67)
4. Australia–73
5. USA–55
Full results from all races at the 2006 Open Water World Championships are available from Omega here:
http://www.omegatiming.com/swimming/racearchives/index.htm
Three days after the completion of the Worlds, the Open Water World Cup circuit resumed with the 36K Capri to Napoli swim, wear Germany’s Maurer also won the women’s race, and Russia’s Kudinov won the men’s portion. Top-4 finishers were:
Women
1. Angela Maurer, German–7:10:13
2. Britta Kamrau-Corestein, Germany–7:11:37
3. Natalia Pankina, Russia–7:26:24
4. Erica Rose, USA–7:34:18
Men
1. Yuri Kudinov, Russia–7:08:56
2. Stéphane Gomez, France–7:09:05
3. Andrea Volpini, Italy–7:09:48
4. Mohamed El Zanaty, Egypt–7:10:07
Full results from the Capri-Napoli 36K are available here:
http://www.fina.org/openwater/FINA_MSWC/06/mswc06_ITA.htm
And this past Sunday, the 15th race of the open water circuit
occurred: a 10K in Belém, Brazil. Top-3 finishers from that race were:
Women
1. Britta Kamrau-Corestein, Germany–1:28:19
2. Angela Maurer, German–1:28:51
3. Ana Marcel Cuhna, Brazil–1:30:51
Men
1. Mark Warkentin, USA–1:26:49
2. Petar Stoychev, Bulgaria–1:27:55
3. Stéphan Gomez, France–1:27:55
Results and a write-up available here:
http://swimmingworldmagazine.com/lane9/news/12023.asp
The World Cup circuit now moves to Asia for its next 3 stops. First up is a 10K Sunday, in Xin Jinhe, Shantou, in China’s Guandong province.
(Shantou is located on the northern coast of South China Sea, northwest of Hong Kong and across from Taiwan.)
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