The first race of the 2008 series of the 2nd FINA Open Water Swimming Grand Prix (former FINA Marathon Swimming World Cup) will take place next Sunday, February 3, 2008 on the occasion of the 35th edition of the “Maraton Acuatica International” Santa Fe-Coronda (ARG).
The list of participants who will swim the 57 km includes twenty-two swimmers, eleven men and eleven women.
Petar Stoychev (BUL), the winner of the six editions of the FINA Marathon Swimming World Cup (2001-2006) and of last year’s first edition of the Grand Prix is among the favourites.
In the women’s race, the winner of the 2007 Grand Prix Esther Nunez will also compete.

Other participants include:
Men: Damian Blaum, Rafael Perez and and Gabriel Villagoiz (ARG), Tihomir Ivanchev (BUL), Stéphane Gomez (FRA), Daniel Katzir (ISR), Rodolfo Valenti, Marco Formentini and Andrea Volpini (ITA) and Ilija Stojanovsky (MKD),
Women: Celeste Punet and Noelia Petti (ARG), Bianka Alliard (CAN), Annegret Braun (GER), Camilla Frediani, Laura La Piana, Alessandra Romitti and Laura Volpi (ITA), Edith van Dijk (NED) and Natatlia Pankina (RUS).