«Swim in Morocco», a race to be held in the Marchica lagoon in September

An exotic race will be held in the Marchica Lagoon located in Nador on the 24th of September 2017, Global Swim Series reports. The event entitled «Swim in Morocco» is organized by HB Sport Consulting, a firm responsible of organizing all sports events in the Kingdom.

The race is set to «offer two distances of 3km and 10km of open water of swimming», states the same source. It is also meant to be attended by a number of swimmers from all over the world that will compete in the inaugural event in 2017.

For the record, HB Sport Consulting’s founder, Hassan Baraka is a swimmer who has participated to several races around the world. According to the same source, Baraka was «the youngest swimmer in the world to have swum the 5 inter-continental channels in 2014». The athlete’s love for swimming pushed him to initiate such an activity in the Marchica lagoon.