LAUSANNE (Switzerland) – The FINA Open Water Tour 2023 will feature six events, with the annual series complementing the open water swimming at the 20th FINA World Championships Fukuoka 2023.
As the FINA Open Water Tour returns for its 17th season, the schedule for the world’s top open water swimmers has been set:
The first stop of 2023 is Golfo Aranci, Sardinia, marking the first time Italy has hosted a FINA open water event.
From Sardinia, the FINA Open Water Tour 2023 will head for the familiar waters of Setubal. The Portuguese coastal city hosted the FINA Olympic Marathon Swim Qualifier events in 2012, 2016 and 2021, and the FINA Marathon Swim World Series 2022 opener.
The Paris event will then follow the 20th FINA World Championships Fukuoka 2023. Marking a change from last year’s event in the French capital, next summer’s competition will take place in the Seine.
The tour will then move to Asia, with Sun Moon Lake hosting its second FINA open water event. Racing will return to Hong Kong a week later, with the city set to host its 12th event.
The FINA Open Water Tour 2023 will then head to the Gulf of Eilat on the northern tip of the Red Sea in Israel, for the year’s final event. An experienced host, Eilat has hosted four previous FINA Marathon Swim events – including the 2022 finale – as well as the FINA World Junior Open Water Swimming Championships in 2018.
Athletes at each FINA Open Water Tour 2023 event will share a prize purse as well as an overall tour winner award, all equally paid out between men and women.
Brazil’s Ana Marcela Cunha comes in as the reigning women’s overall tour champion, while Italy’s Gregorio Paltrinieri and Hungary’s Kristof Rasovszky are the co-reigning men’s overall tour winners.
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