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World Open Water Swimming Federation, a human-powered project
Lance Armstrong will compete in 9th Annual Lake Travis Relay in Austin, Texas on October 13th. The SwimStrong team will include the world’s most famous cyclist along with teammates Rip Esselstyn, Chris Kemp, Travis Robertson, Dale Rogers, and Jeremy Smitheal. But SwimStrong, the defending champion in the 6-person relay who set the standard last year […]
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Willy van Rysel is one of only two individuals (along with Drury Gallagher) to be honored by both the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame and the International Masters Swimming Hall of Fame. A double-IMSHOF Honour Swimmer, Rysel passed away at the age of 96 on September 19th. Besides her success in the open water
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Nominees for the World Open Water Swimming Association (WOWSA) awards (WOWSA Open Water Swimming Man of the Year, WOWSA Open Water Swimming Woman of the Year, WOWSA Open Water Swimming Performance of the Year, and WOWSA Open Water Swimming Offering of the Year) will be announced in early November. The competition and scope of the
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Fionnuala Walsh became the first Clare swimmer and the 15th Irish woman to successfuly swim the English Channel. She was escorted by veteran pilot Paul Foreman on the Pace Arrow during her 15 hour 26 minute journey this week. But Walsh’s success was built on the foundation of fate. In early August, she was one
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The Deep Blue Invitational Swim is considered by many to be the toughest swim in South Africa outside of a Robben Island crossing. 30 of South Africa’s most accomplished extreme swimmers were invited to swim 10 km at Shelley Point in the cold waters near St Helena Bay this weekend. Cold, rough, and long…just the
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In order for Oliver Wilkinson to swim from The Friendly Isle (Molokai) to The Gathering Place (Oahu), he had to swim across the 42 km (26-mile) Channel of Bones (Molokai Channel). Fortunately, there would be no bone-crushing swim for Wilkinson on this day…although it may have appeared to start that way and could have ended
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Seeking Unknown Shores With Ted Erikson Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. “…My awareness of motions, internal and external, included: movements in the womb; splashing in a bathtub; paddling in a small reservoir; entering a swimming pool; and making erratic progress across the open waters of lakes, channels, and oceans. In open waters, external motions
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10-time Olympic medalist Gary Hall Jr. is a huge fan and a passionate proponent of Billy Dutton. “Billy is accomplished in everything he does – and he does a lot. His recent jaunt is the Ride The Current project. Together with Mark Ward, it is an eco-friendly 354-mile (570km) surfing safari with a solar-powered Duffy
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The big guns showed up on the other side of the world. 2-time Olympic medalist Thomas Lurz was there. World champion Sypridon Gianniotis showed up. And Olympic marathon swimmers like Allan Do Carmo, Evgeny Drattsev and Igor Chervynskiy were pumped up and ready to go. The world’s elite was ready to race. And so were
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If it is a one-mile swim, a set at the end of a workout, a 25km world championship race, the Olympics, or a FINA 10km Marathon Swimming World Cup, there is one thing that can be assured: Ana Marcela Cunha of Brazil will be racing as intensely as possible. She is a passionate competitor whose
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