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Joshua Richardson of Australia set a new race record over the 19km ocean course in Fiji from Denaru on the main island to Beachcomber Island in 3 hours 39 minutes during the Fiji Swims event. The previous record on the Fiji Swims course was set in 2010 by Michael Sheils of Australia in a time […]
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Ana Marcela Cunha, always the competitor, gutted out a close victor over a tight pack in the warm-water conditions in Shantou, China on the last stop of the 2012 FINA 10km Marathon Swimming World Cup circuit. The Brazilian superstar won her second FINA 10km Marathon Swimming World Cup title based on her consistently high performances
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Spyridon Gianniotis wrapped up his overall series victory in the 2012 FINA 10km Marathon Swimming World Cup with a convincing victory in Shantou, China over the weekend. Just north of Hong Kong, the 2011 world champion proved the class of the field and the class of the season in the warm (24.5 degrees C) lake
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The concept of excellence has always preoccupied great minds. Aristotle liked to say that excellence is not an act, but a habit. Former US Secretary of State Colin Powell said that, to achieve excellence in the big things, you have to develop the habit in little matters. And when English nurse Florence Nightingale was asked
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Californian swim buddies, 62-year-old Les Mangold from Modesto and 51-year-old Jeff Everett from Oakland, became the two latest members of the Half Century Club when they crossed the Strait of Gibraltar on September 17th. “This was our second try,” explained Mangold who has swum the width of Lake Tahoe twice as has Everett. “Last year
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Nop Luengnimitmas started to make inquiries a year ago about how to develop open water swimming in Thailand. Less than one year later, open water swimmers from Thailand are starting to represent their nation very well on the professional marathon swimming circuit. Bejaportn Sriphanomthorn debuted a highly respectable 8th in the Hong Kong event, sandwiched
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Going into the last race on the 2012 FINA 10km Marathon Swimming World Cup series, Spyridon Gianniotis of Greece was comfortably leading Christian Reichert of Germany and Evgeny Drattsev of Russia in the overall series point totals for the season. When FINA gets around to announcing the results of this weekend’s race in China and
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Robbie, a black Labrador, bravely and intelligently comes to the rescue of his fellow canines. Copyright © 2012 by World Open Water Swimming Association
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S.P. Murleedharan completed the relatively shallow Palk Strait between Talaimannar in Sri Lanka to Arichamunai at Danushkodi in India in 13 hours 53 minutes in March 2012, but he had to brave a wide variety of sea snakes along the way. “As an Indian I feel proud to cross Palk Strait from Sri Lanka to
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Back in August in Québec, Canada, the 34e édition of la Traversée Internationale du Lac Memphrémagog saw a close race for the men’s top spots after world Grand Prix champion Trent Grimsey pulled away from the field at the 17 km mark in remarkably warm conditions. “I tried really hard to catch Trent and got
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