Argentina’s Federico Grabich, is making the trip to Argentina’s Trofue Maria Lenk later this month. He is showing good improvement in Paraguay right now. He’ll get some good competition in the 100 free from newly minted Finnish record holder in that race, Ari-Pekka Liukkonen. On the other end of the spectrum, Argentina’s Martin Naidich will come and compete in distance freestyle. He is the former South American record holder in the 1500 free.
Athletes from Canada, Chile, China, Slovakia and the Czech republic will also be in the water at Maria Lenk. There are also eight countries that don’t currently have athletes entered that are nevertheless sending some form of team staff for the competition. The release makes note that these countries still have a chance to enter swimmers in the meet. The deadline for entries has been set at April 8th.