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Christine Jennings took out the 18km BCT Gdynia Marathon in Poland with the top men Petar Stoychev and Trent Grimsey, hanging near them for the first 5km in the jellyfish-strewn coastal course. But the American still had Polish Olympian Natalia Charlos on her feet. Jennings’ coach Eney Jones keep pushing her, the personable Charlos was […]
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Dionne Caldwell (shown together with Don Caldwell on left) shows her teammates, neighbors and friends how to live young and fitful. The 80-something-year-old from the Novaquatics Masters (NOVA) Team in Irvine, California beat dozens of younger swimmers at the Don Burns 1 Mile Ocean Swim in Corona Del Mar, California, finishing in 34:05 on a
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The Big Richard is the world’s longest beach run + ocean swim biathlon. The finish will culminate during the 2012 Global Open Water Swimming Conference on September 22nd. The brutal coastal biathlon, fashioned after the Mega, is organized by Long Beach waterman Matty Mitchell. It starts at the surf-pounding Wedge in Newport Beach (shown on
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Waimea Bay on the North Shore of Oahu is the renowned site of big wave surfing. Today at 9 am Hawaii time, Waimea Bay will be site of some mighty big wakes when the top young swimmers from Australia, Japan, USA, Canada and New Zealand face off in the final event of the 2012 Junior
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Throughout history, Canadians have performed extraordinarily well in open water swimming. Jacques Amyot (1995), Marilyn Bell (1967), Christine Cossette (1982), Robert Cossette (2004), Helge Jensen (1970), Vicki Keith Munro (2003), Régent Lacoursière (1978), Cliff Lumsdon (1969), Cynthia Nicholas (1978), Gilles Potvin (2006), Gus Ryder (1981), Greg Streppel (1996), Patty Thompson (1969), Margaret Park Wisniski (2000),
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Neil Armstrong, Commander of the Apollo 11, passed away on Saturday. An estimated 600 million people watched the Navy pilot set foot on the moon in 1969 and heard him utter his most famous statement, “That’s one small step for man; one giant leap for mankind” when he stepped off of his lunar module onto
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South African Wayne Soutter‘s swim across the English Channel in 2010 was only a warm-up for his latest exploit, an unprecedented 17km (10.5 mile) crossing from the Mull of Kintyre on extreme west coast of Scotland to the Antrim coast in northern Ireland. The 43-year-old who lives in London started from the tip of Kintyre
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Olympic gold medalist Larisa Ilchenko got married this past week to fellow Russian Olympian Sergey Perunin. The 8-time world champion was unbeatable in major international championships from her debut in Dubai in 2004 as a 16-year-old to her dramatic victory at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. Her trademark finish, The Ilchenko, was a killer sprint
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From Anacapa Island near Santa Barbara to Gdynia in Poland, open water swimmers have been complaining of jellyfish stings. The encounters are running amok throughout the Pacific and the Atlantic, from the Caribbean to the Sea of Japan as swimmers around the world posted pictures of their stings on all kinds of social media. But
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The men and women in the Olympic marathon swimming 10km finals finished in a custom-designed finish created by Omega Timing. The finish pad has sophisticated electronic timing and cameras. Copyright © 2012 by World Open Water Swimming Association
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