ALL YOU NEED IS SWIM… IL NUOTO UNISCE ITALIA aims to bring together all the open water swimmers of Italy, from the highest level to beginners, in the first and only great symbolic race  of 2020 in which will participate, swimming, every member in their daily environment.

We are motivated by thinking of sport as a vehicle for the union of the large community of open water swimmers from all over Italy, which we are sure is able to create an invisible but very strong link between all the beaches of the more than 7000 km of coast and the more than  1500 lakes of the peninsula,  united under a single motto:

ALL YOU NEED IS SWIM!

With this virtual competition we aim to make the voice and the need of our sport heard, because it needs those organizations and events, thousands every year throughout Italy, that guarantee both health and tourism and visibility to locations that are unique in the world.

We are proud to be able to count on Spokespeople  who do not need to be introduced , representing the highest level of our sport both at national and international level: Martina Grimaldi, Alisia Tettamanzi, Simone Ruffini and Edoardo Stochino… once more champions both outside and inside the water, ideally close to swimmers all over the country.

The main partner of the event is one  we believe is the perfect representation of the spirit of our competition: the historic Grand Prix Sicilia Open Water FIN  that already symbolically unites Italy of open water swimming, from the beaches of Trinacria to the lakes of Lombardy.

All the participants  will be entered in a grand final ranking on IOWT’s classics  races: SMILE SWIM by 2500mt and HARD SWIM by 5000mt, divided into  saltwater and freshwater categories. These rankings, taken from the times uploaded to your personal profile of  italianopenwatertour.com, are just the pretext to start trying  and feeling again that unique sense of competition and sharing that our sport knows how to give.

In addition to the first absolutes, who will be awarded the registrations for the Italian Open Water Challenge 2020 stage in  Peschiera del Garda on the 27^th of September, prestigious technical prizes and entries to races all over Italy ,made available by Organizers who immediately moved in support of ALL YOU NEED IS SWIM… IL NUOTO UNISCE ITALIA, sharing its spirit and purpose, will be awarded.

AWARDS LIST

THE TOTALITY  OF THE PRIZES WILL BE RAFFLED OFF IN FULL TO ALL THE SUBSCRIBERS, both those who uploaded the file of their swims by the expiration date and those who signed up to participate despite not having the technical support to send their performance,  in a large live session on the Instagram and Facebook channels of IOWT.

The event was born with the determined desire to support the Tethys Onlus Institute,  a non-profit organization specialized in research on whales and dolphins, with the aim of protecting animals and the marine environment, and raising awareness through scientific divulgation. In more than three decades of activity it has produced one of the largest datasets on cetaceans in the Mediterranean Sea. It was the first to conceive and propose the creation of the Pelagos Sanctuary for the conservation of marine mammals in the Mediterranean Sea. The Sanctuary is also home to the study area of Cetacean Sanctuary Research, one of two long-term Tethys projects, conducted since 1990, with the help of people from all over the world. To date, it has collected one of the biggest sets of scientific data of its kind.

We can also boast and count on the great synergy with Let’s do It! Italy, an environmental protection association that coordinates the World Cleanup Day in Italy: always active in mapping illegal landfills through the use of the TrashOut platform and the impact they cause on the environment. Branch of the international movement Let’s do It! World that organizes World  Cleanup Day deals with its organization in Italy.