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Open Water Swimming At The 2015 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 5 Km
The Men's 5 km competition of the open water swimming events at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships The 16th FINA World Aquatics Championships, FINA World Championships (russian: Чемпионат мира по водным видам спорта 2015), also Aquatics 2015, were held in Kazan, Russia from 24 July to 9 August 2015. Russia host ... was held on 25 July 2015. Results The race was started at 13:00. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Open water swimming at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships - Men's 5 km Men's 5 km World Aquatics Championships ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chad Ho
Chad Ho (born 21 June 1990) is a South African open water swimmer, who specialises in 10km and 5km marathon swimming. Educated at Westville Boys' High School, he is considered one of the fastest professional open water swimmers in the world, having won the overall series title at the 2010 FINA World Cup and attended the Olympic Game's twice - 2008 and 2016. He is also currently a seven-time titleholder of the Midmar Mile. Swimming career 2008 Summer Olympics Ho qualified for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, after placing fourth in the 10 km Marathon Swimming Olympic test event at Shunyi Olympic Rowing-Canoeing Park. He swam in the first-ever men's 10 km open water marathon, against a field of 24 other competitors, including former pool swimmers Petar Stoychev of Bulgaria and Thomas Lurz of Germany. Ho finished the race in ninth place, with a time of 1:52:13.1, approximately twenty-one seconds behind winner Maarten van der Weijden of the Netherlands. Post-Olympics At ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel De Bona
Samuel Menegon de Bona (born 1 October 1990 in Porto Alegre) is a Brazilian swimmer, who specialized in the open water marathon. He trained at Grêmio Náutico União, in Porto Alegre. In April 2011, he won, for the first time, the Travessia dos Fortes (the most important competition of the calendar of aquatic marathons in Brazil). At the 2011 FINA World Championships in Shanghai, de Bona placed 36th in the 5 km marathon, with a time of 1:01:20.9, 44th in the 10 km marathon, with a time of 2:02:17.2, and 16th in the 25 km marathon, with a time of 5:27:38.1. At the 2011 Pan American Games in Guadalajara, de Bona finished 12th in the 10 km Marathon Swimming. At the 2013 World Aquatics Championships, in Barcelona, he finished 6th in the Men's 5 km race. Later, in the team event, he won the bronze medal with the Brazilian team, along with Allan do Carmo and Poliana Okimoto. At the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto, Canada, he abandoned the race of Men's marathon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonios Fokaidis
Antonios Fokaidis (born 29 August 1989) is a Greek swimmer. He participates in the open water events. He won the silver medal in the Team event at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships in Barcelona alongside his team mates Spyridon Gianniotis and Kalliopi Araouzou. With the same team he had earlier won the gold medal at the 2010 European Open Water Championships in Balatonfüred Balatonfüred (german: Bad Plattensee, sk, Blatenské Teplice) is a resort town in Veszprém county, in Hungary, with a population of 13,000, situated on the northern shore of Lake Balaton. It is considered to be the capital of the Northern lake .... References Living people Male long-distance swimmers Greek male swimmers 1989 births World Aquatics Championships medalists in open water swimming Swimmers at the 2013 Mediterranean Games Mediterranean Games competitors for Greece 20th-century Greek people 21st-century Greek people {{Greece-swimming-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yuval Safra
Yuval ( he, יוּבַל), also known as Kfar Yuval ( he, כְּפַר יוּבַל), is a moshav in northern Israel. Located in the Galilee Panhandle between Metula and Kiryat Shmona, it falls under the jurisdiction of Mevo'ot HaHermon Regional Council. In it had a population of . History The moshav was founded in 1953 by evacuees from the Old City of Jerusalem who originally arrived from Kurdistan on land that had belonged to the depopulated Palestinian village of Abil al-Qamh. It was named "Yuval" (creek) after the Jordan river's tributaries in the area and also referring to Jeremiah 17:8 ("sends out its roots by the creek"). In the early 1960s most of the founders abandoned the moshav, and it was repopulated by Indian Jewish immigrants from Kochi. The proximity of the moshav to the border of Israel with Lebanon has made it a target for terrorist attacks. In 1975 a group of terrorists infiltrated the moshav, took control of a residence, and killed three members of on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santiago Enderica
Santiago (, ; ), also known as Santiago de Chile, is the capital and largest city of Chile as well as one of the largest cities in the Americas. It is the center of Chile's most densely populated region, the Santiago Metropolitan Region, whose total population is 8 million which is nearly 40% of the country's population, of which more than 6 million live in the city's continuous urban area. The city is entirely in the country's central valley. Most of the city lies between above mean sea level. Founded in 1541 by the Spanish conquistador Pedro de Valdivia, Santiago has been the capital city of Chile since colonial times. The city has a downtown core of 19th-century neoclassical architecture and winding side-streets, dotted by art deco, neo-gothic, and other styles. Santiago's cityscape is shaped by several stand-alone hills and the fast-flowing Mapocho River, lined by parks such as Parque Forestal and Balmaceda Park. The Andes Mountains can be seen from most ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
