By Will Baxley on SwimSwam
2025 EA Open Water Swimming Cup
September 20, 2025
Barcelona, Spain
Full Outcomes
This weekend, the 2025 European Aquatics Open Water Swimming Cup docked at Port Vell in Barcelona with Hungary’s David Betlehem and Poland’s Klaudia Tarasiewicz rising as winners within the 10k occasion.
For Tarasiewicz, this marked her second victory in as many stops that she participated in. The 21-year-old Pole topped the sector on the Cup’s first cease in Cyprus this Could. This weekend, she saved Monaco’s Lisa Pou, the general Cup chief, at bay for the majority of the race earlier than charging to a five-second victory ultimately (2:02.39).
Pou went on to earn silver, maintaining her general #1 standing and clocking a time of two:02.44.28.
France’s Caroline Jouisse rounded out the rostrum, incomes a bronze a second and a half behind Pou. Jouisse mentioned she was pleased with the end result contemplating she suffered meals poisoning the evening earlier than the race.
On the lads’s aspect, David Betlehem had his strongest exhibiting in a 10k but this summer season by outdueling a swarm of Italian stars for his first gold medal of 2025 within the distance. The 22-year-old stopped the clock in 1:54:09.88 after surging forward of his opponents within the closing 400 meters.
In an interview, Bethlehem shared that he and his Hungarian coaching group have been hitting 4x500s butterfly descending on 6:20 in preparation for his or her races.
Led by Marcello Guidi with a 1:54:11.46, Italy picked up a 2-6 sweep of positions. Like Betlehem, this was Guidi’s first medal within the 10k distance this 12 months. Andrea Filadelli earned bronze, matching his end result from the Cup’s earlier cease in Paris. Dario Verani grabbed 4th, whereas Fabio Dalu and Pasquale Angelo Giordano rounded out the Italy contingent with fifth and sixth locations.
American Dylan Gravley was the one non-European to compete in Barcelona. He completed eighth within the males’s 10k.
Barcelona marked the penultimate of 5 stops on this 12 months’s Cup sequence. The ultimate cease takes place in Razanac, Croatia, this weekend.
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