Sydney World Masters Games Media Report:
Open water swim cancelled for safety reasons.
The Sydney 2009 World Masters Games Open Water Swim scheduled for 10am has been cancelled for safety reasons. It will not be rescheduled for Sunday.
The Chief Medical Officer, Chief Referee and Technical Delegate considered all options available when making this decision, such as postponement, shortening the course and moving the event to another day. Unfortunately, the water temperature and conditions prevented these options from being put in place.
The water temperature did not meet the minimum requirement of an average of 18 degrees and combined with the weather conditions (wind chill) it was not possible to safely run an open water swim.
The main concern is for competitor safety, and the risk of hypothermia was too high to enable the swim to go ahead.
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