By Will Baxley on SwimSwam
The calendar year of global water open water swimming concluded this weekend in the tropical Mexican resort town of Cancun. Open water’s kingpin and queen bee, Florian Wellbrock and Moesha Johnson, took care of business as usual with double wins each in the first 2026-2027 Open Water World Cup stop.
For Johnson, the 29-year-old Aussie, the event closed out what can only be described as a perfect year. The Magdeburg-trained phenom went undefeated in individual events across all five of the year’s open water, decisively taking every 10k and 3k knockout sprint contested. In addition to winning overall, Johnson was also victorious in every 2026 10k “sprint lap” bonus, which awards money to the athlete who’s out the swiftest in the first lap of the race.
“The plan this year was just to make some money,” Johnson told World Aquatics about her sprint laps. “But that’s just turned into my new tactic now.
“I’m grateful for the sprint lap because it’s challenged me in that way and it’s changed the athlete that I am and the race that we’re racing,” Johnson added.
This weekend, the Aussie took the 10k with a 13-second victory margin, touching the wall in 2:03:31.20. The silver medal went to Japanese 24-year-old Airi Ebina, who had a major breakout swim to win her first international medal. Johnson’s fellow podium mainstay, Ginevra Taddeucci of Italy, rounded out the podium with a bronze medal. American veteran Becca Mann finished 5th in a Spanish sandwich, touching between 4th place Maria de Valdes and 6th place Angela Martinez Guillen.
The second women’s event, the 3k knockout sprint, also resulted in a Johnson win and a Japanese silver medal. Johnson officially capped her undefeated season with her 5:39.20 final 500 sprint. The silver medal went to Ichika Kajimoto, the event’s only ever world chamion. Monaco’s Lisa Pou claimed bronze to win her first individual World Cup medal.
Johnson’s training partner Wellbrock was also dominant in Mexico. He emerged the victor of a crowded finish in the 10k event, leading the pack with a 1:53:55.80. Italy’s Domenico Acerenza, a decorated veteran in the sport, reaped silver, just 2.7 seconds behind the German. Bronze went to David Betlehem, who was crowned the winner of the overall 2026 World Cup – which didn’t include this stop. Betlehem touched just .2 behind Acerenza, and the entire top seven finished within 10 seconds of each other.
Betlehem added a second medal by picking up silver in the 3k knockout sprint – just .9 behind gold medal-winning Wellbrock. Frenchman Marc-Antoine Olivier scored bronze, earning his 27th World Cup medal across 11 years.
Points for this stop will go toward the 2026-2027 Open Water World Cup. The next stop will be in Somabay, Egypt, on March 19-20, 2027.
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