Schedule Released for 2026 Open Water Swimming World Cup

Schedule Released for 2026 Open Water Swimming World Cup

World Aquatics has introduced the 4 stops of the Open Water Swimming World Cup, which can mark the twentieth yr of the tour. The sequence will start with racing within the Red Sea after which shift to Europe for the ultimate three legs. Racing is scheduled to happen between late March and mid-June, with the fields that includes lots of the premier open-water swimmers on the planet.

The calendar for the World Aquatics Open Water Swimming World Cup:

• March 27-28 – Somabay, Egypt
• April 24-25 – Ibiza, Spain
• May 1-2 – Golfo Aranci, Italy
• June 20-21 – Setubal, Portugal

The fourth cease on the tour, Setubal, is all the time intriguing and captures the eye of the athletes resulting from it being one of many extra strategic occasions. Breaking waves and currents usually name for the swimmers to regulate their gameplans.

“You have to race and react with what the others are doing,” mentioned Hungarian Kristof Rasovszky of the Setubal cease. “Of course, you have to catch up in the current, find your place in the waves and your place in the pack. Setubal is pure racing.”

The 2025 World Cup champions have been not too long ago topped, with Italy’s Ginevra Tadeucci capturing the ladies’s title and Frenchman Logan Fontaine claiming the lads’s championship.