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Registration opens for first Masters open water tour leg

The Protaras race bulletin sets a three-kilometre event and age-group entry procedures.

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European Aquatics released operational details for the inaugural Masters Open Water Swimming Tour race in Protaras. Registration opens on 18 February for the three-kilometre event at Fig Tree Bay on 19 April, held alongside the established Open Water Swimming Cup stage.

Separate men’s and women’s races are planned with age-group waves from twenty to twenty-four through ninety and above. Entries close on 8 April, with direct athlete registration permitted regardless of citizenship, residence or club affiliation. The entry fee is fifty euros.

The bulletin sets training and a technical meeting for 18 April and outlines temperature safeguards, including compulsory wetsuits below eighteen degrees Celsius. Swimmers seeking the tour’s final overall ranking must compete at all three legs during the season.

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