Mare Nostrum Swim Tour Announces 2025 Dates

The Mare Nostrum Swim Tour has announced its three meet schedule for the 2025 season, which will be held entirely in the month of May along the Mediterranean coast.

Launched in 1994, the historic series has been a major stop for the world’s top swimmers on the way to the mid-summer championship meets for three decades. Each stop hands out significant prize money with the best FINA Points swim of each gender throughout the series taking home €7,000 ($7,436) in 2024.

  • May 17-18, 2025 – International Swimming Meeting of Monte-Carlo, Monaco
  • May 21-22, 2025 – Gran Premi Internacional Ciutat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
  • May 24-25, 2025 – Meeting Arena, Canet-en-Roussillon, France

The 2024 list was loaded with big names, including swimmers who would go on to win Olympic medals like Sarah SjostromSiobhan HaugheyNicolo MartinenghiFlorent Manaudou, David Popovici, and Maxime Grousset. Athletes travel together throughout the stops if they participate in them all with organizers-provided transportation.

In total, last year’s series offered around $150,000 in prize money.

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Carl Spackler
22 days ago

The poster says different dates. I think you’ve reversed them in order.

Jordan
22 days ago

With the onset of la Nina end of May might be too cold for outdoor swimming in Europe.

RealCrocker5040
Reply to  Jordan
22 days ago

Ok climate expert

What was the pressure at UPPER MATECUMBE KEY FL at 9 PM on SEPTEMBER 2 1935

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Reply to  RealCrocker5040
21 days ago

All you want to know on this famous hurricane
Florida Keys Labor Day Hurricane 1935
This system was first detected east of the central Bahamas on August 29. Moving westward, it passed near Andros Island on September 1, at which time it reached hurricane strength and turned west-northwestward. Phenomenal strengthening then occurred, and when the storm reached the middle Florida Keys on September 2, it was a Category 5 hurricane. After roaring through the Keys, the hurricane turned gradually northward almost parallel to the Florida west coast until it again made landfall near Cedar Key as a Category 2 hurricane on the 4th. A northeastward motion took the storm across the southeastern United States to the Atlantic coast… Read more »

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