Alkis Kinigakis took the eighth place in the 10km race, as part of the European Swimming Championship in the high sea swimming championship in Serbia, Serbia. Tokyo’s fifth Olympic champion fought with big names from Open Water who participated in the race and fought until the end even for a medal, finishing about five seconds behind the third. Indeed, the Greek champion shortly after half of the race lost his contact with the front group, but covered the distance and finally finished in 1 hour, 47 minutes and 31.34 seconds, bringing him to eighth place between 31 swimming.
Kinigakis will return to Greece and continue his preparations for this year’s big racing appointment, the World Field Championships, which will take place in July in Singapore.
European champion for the fourth time in his career (but first at 10km) was the Hungarian “golden” Olympic champion of Paris, Christof Rasovsky, who covered the distance in time at 1 .47: 23.68. About two and a half seconds behind him, the French Logan Fontaen (world champion at 5km) took the silver medal in front of Mark-Antuan Olivier’s compatriot. The title holder, Italian Gregory Paltrinieri, stayed for a few inches of second quarter and out of the podium for a few inches.
The first octave at 10km. Men:
1. Christof Rasovsky (Hungary) 1h.47: 23.68
2. Logan Fontaen (France) 1h.47: 26.05
3. Mark-Antuan Olivier (France)
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5. Andrea Philadelce (Italy) 1h.47: 26.28
6. Sasha Veli (France) 1h.
7. Matan Roditi (Israel) 1h.47: 30.61
8. Alkis Kinigakis (GREECE) 1H.47: 31.34
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