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Emma Weyant poses with her silver medal on the podium for the women's 400-meter Individual medley at the 2020 Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)

Visit Sarasota County Inks NIL Deal with Olympic Medalist Emma Weyant

Visit Sarasota County in Florida has announced a Name, Image and Likeness deal with Emma Weyant, a Sarasota native and Olympic silver medalist swimmer at the 2020 Games in Tokyo. Weyant, who is between her junior and senior seasons at the University of Florida, will be competing for USA Swimming in the 400-meter individual medley […]

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Winners of the 2023 SportsTravel Awards Announced at TEAMS ’23 in The Palm Beaches

SportsTravel announced the winners of the 2023 SportsTravel Awards during the TEAMS ’23 Conference & Expo in The Palm Beaches of Florida, honoring the best events, venue and host city in the sports-event industry. TEAMS: Travel, Events And Management in Sports, is the world’s largest gathering of event organizers and travel planners from the sports […]

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Rob Wells Named Executive Director for Wayne County CVB

The Wayne County Convention and Visitors Bureau in Ohio has hired Rob Wells as executive director. Wells previously served as the executive director of the Savannah (Georgia) Sports Council for five years, leading the sports tourism efforts and managing events including the Savannah Bridge Run, the Savannah Hockey Classic and the Savannah Women’s Half Marathon. […]

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Nathan Benderson Park Adds More National, International Events to Calendar

Hosted by Nathan Benderson Park Conservancy with support from Visit Sarasota County, three more World Cup events have been added to the future calendar after four other events were announced in the past week-plus. The Conservancy will host the 2024 International Canoe Federation’s Sprint World Cup, Marathon World Cup and Dragon Boat World Cup. Dates for these […]

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Oklahoma City, Sarasota Awarded Future International Canoe World Championships

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and Sarasota, Florida, will host major world championship events organized by the International Canoe Federation in 2026. Sarasota will host the first combined canoe marathon and stand up paddling world championships while the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships will be in Oklahoma City for the first time since 2014. Oklahoma City is […]

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Nathan Benderson Park in Sarasota, Florida, has hosted the 2017 World Rowing Championships and the 2018 World Rowing Masters Regatta.

Sarasota County Commissioners Boosting Sports Tourism

The Sarasota County Board of Commissioners in Florida has agreed to allocate 5 percent of the county’s tourist development tax collections toward sports tourism and related activities, and create a sports tourism liaison position with the county’s Parks, Recreation and Natural Resources Department. Sports tourism marketing will remain with Visit Sarasota County, reported the Englewood […]

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2022 Dragon Boat World Championships Awarded to Sarasota

Nathan Benderson Park in Sarasota, Florida, will be the site for the 2022 International Dragon Boat Federation Club Crew World Championships, the federation announced at a congress event in Pattaya, Thailand. Sarasota won the bid over Montreal, Quebec, and Hungary, which hosted the 2018 event and drew 6,200 athletes. The next world championships, held on […]

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