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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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Few individuals have had such as a busy or successful year as professional marathon swimming champion Trent “Trento” Grimsey. His Barraesque schedule required hundreds of thousands of air miles from his native Queensland to participate in the FINA Open Water Swimming Grand Prix events, ocean and invitational swims around the world as well as his
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Suijutsu – How The Ancient Japanese Samurai Swam Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. “Just get in and swim…” is an instruction that simply would not work in ancient Japan. No, the Japanese samurai learned suijutsu or suiei-jutsu (水術 in Japanese) as one form of a martial art of combative swimming. Centuries ago, the Japanese
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Lieutenant Colonel Stewart Evans was a marathon man before his time. While his Farallon Islands swim in 1967 was celebrated, recognized and well-documented (see video below), it has taken decades to unearth documentation of his Catalina Channel crossing of August 26th, 1959. Like his 13 hour 55 minute swim from the Farallon Islands to the
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How did the Night Train Swimmers prepare for their SF to SB Relay, a 6-day swimming adventure along the California coast? How does a group of swimmers handle their nutritional and sleeping needs while swimming in cold water for an hour every 6 hours for 6 days as they swim non-stop from San Francisco to
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ITV reported that 6 soldiers, including Trooper Clifford O’Farrell who was severely injured in Afghanistan and is rehabilitating by swimming, are doing a 250-mile relay in Shepperton Lake in Surrey. Their charity effort to raise funds for injured servicemen is expected to take 6 days of continuous non-stop effort. Copyright © 2012 by Open Water
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The Planet Earth’s pristine seashores, especially in the Pacific Ocean, are decreasing year by year. But there are still plenty of clean places to enjoy. Doug Woodring utilizes the Clean Half of Hong Kong to conduct his 15km Clean Half Extreme Marathon Swim annually in October. Last weekend’s 6th annual Ocean Recovery Alliance Clean Half
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