\t\t\t\t\t2026 Open Water World Cup \u2013 Stop 3<\/p>\n
The first day of the Open Water World Cup stop in Golfo Aranci has concluded. The marquee event, the 10k, was contested, with Moesha Johnson<\/a> <\/b>of Australia and Sacha Velly<\/a> <\/b>emerging on the top of their respective gender\u2019s fields.<\/p>\n For Johnson, it marked another display of her utter dominance in the sport as of late. The 28-year-old Aussie led from wire to wire and touched 25 seconds ahead of second place finisher Angela Martinez<\/b>. She remains undefeated across all individual open water competition, regardless of distance, in 2026 for the World Cup. For the 10k specifically, it marks three straight world cup wins for the year.<\/p>\n For Martinez, who is 22 years of age and hails from Spain, this silver medal marks a repeat of her runner-up effort from Ibiza last summer. It also marks the first time she has won multiple world cup medals in the same year, bringing her overall individual haul to four.<\/p>\n There was nearly a 1-2-3 repeat from last weekend, which saw Johnson, Martinez, and Lea Boy<\/a><\/b> grab the 10k medals. However, Frenchwoman Caroline Jouisse<\/a> <\/b>spoiled the podium reunion by outtouching Boy for bronze by 1.4 seconds. This marked the 31-year-old\u2019s first medal of any color at the 2026 World Cup stops. Her most recent 10k hardware comes from the Setubal, Portugal stop of the 2025 World Cup.<\/p>\n Jouisse and two of her male teammates, Sacha Velly<\/a><\/b> and Marc-Antoine Olivier<\/strong><\/a><\/b>, combined to catapult France to #1 on the nation medal table. Velly and Olivier went 1-2, respectively in the men\u2019s 10k. In contrast to Johnson\u2019s decisive 25-second victory, only .7 separated the three men\u2019s medalists. Velly, who is 21 years old, hit the finish board first in 1:49.07.50, over two minutes faster than either of the winning times at the previous two World Cups. Olivier touched only .2 behind his teammate, while Italian Andrea Filadelli<\/a> <\/b>touched .7 behind Velly to repeat his bronze medal result from last weekend. This marks Velly\u2019s first ever World Cup individual title.<\/p>\n Of note, last weekend\u2019s double winner David Betlehem<\/a> <\/b>finished 18th.<\/p>\n American Performance<\/p>\n With Pan Pacific roster spots on the line, American women open water swimmers performed stronger this week than they did in Ibiza. No American is finding their ground in the global scene quicker than 16-year-old Brinkleigh Hansen<\/a>, who finished 6th in a pack of decorated veterans in her second ever World Cup 10k. For the men, an extra week in Europe had the opposite effect as it did for the women, with rankings falling compared to in Spain. See the Golfo Aranci list with place among Americans and overall place in parentheses below:<\/p>\n Men:<\/p>\n Women:<\/p>\n Ivan Puskovitch<\/strong><\/a>, Dylan Gravley<\/a>, Mariah Denigan<\/strong><\/a>, and Brinkleigh Hansen<\/a> all finished in the top two in each of the three qualification races for Pan Pacs, all but guaranteeing them a spot for Irvine. Veteran Becca Mann<\/strong><\/a> also seems like a likely bet using World Aquatics\u2019 formula. Beyond these names, the water gets murkier. Here\u2019s how the standings look for Pan Pac selection:<\/p>\n Women<\/p>\n Men<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2026 Open Water World Cup \u2013 Stop 3 The first day of the Open Water World Cup stop…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":932043,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5309],"tags":[260678,260679,260680,260681,260682,214169,260683,260684,260685,260686,214170,2000,299,36,260687,260688,260689,260690,214172,260691,260692],"class_list":["post-932042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-france","tag-alex-siegel","tag-andrea-filadelli","tag-angela-martinez","tag-ashley-twichell","tag-becca-mann","tag-brinkleigh-hansen","tag-brooke-travis","tag-caroline-jouisse","tag-colin-jacobs","tag-david-betlehem","tag-dylan-gravley","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-france","tag-ivan-puskovitch","tag-joshua-brown","tag-lea-boy","tag-marc-antoine-olivier","tag-mariah-denigan","tag-moesha-johnson","tag-sacha-velly"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=932042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/932043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=932042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=932042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=932042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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