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The swimming community throughout Guam was ecstatic last week to hear that Benjamin Schulte, the 16-year-old swimmer from Guam, was invited to the Olympics by FINA. As the first swimmer from Guam to qualify for an Olympic swimming final in recent times, Schulte was justifiably proud and beyond joyous. On the other hand, the news […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. William “Davis” Lee from Man-O-War Cay, Abaco, Bahamas became the 50th swimmer to join the Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming with his successful circumnavigation around Manhattan Island in New York City yesterday. After his 2010 English Channel swim in 12 hours 41 minutes and his 2010 Catalina Channel
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James Jonsson is an American open water swimmer from Utah who holds two marathon swimming records for the fastest crossing of Bear Lake, a 19-mile swim on the border of the states of Utah and Idaho. He set the record of 8 hours 53 minutes in 2010. Last year, Jonsson became the first person to
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Paolo Eros Cerizzi, known in Italy as Dolphinman, is known for a variety of open water exploits. He has swam 2.5 km across Lake Maggiore in Italy swimming butterfly and swam across the Strait of Messina in Sicily wearing handcuffs. At the Flowers Sea Swim, Dolphinman set a world record in swimming one mile in
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Favored swimmer Abigail Nunn comfortably won the 2012 Manhattan Island Marathon Swim in 7 hours 36 minutes. The decorated Yale University swimmer cruised to a 1200-meter lead as she entered the Hudson River and then maintained her lead down the choppy backstretch. With the race still in progress, it appears that Mexico’s Javier Gutierrez, a
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“One of the things that I think about when I am swimming is what I am grateful for,” explains Patti Bauernfeind who is nearly halfway through today’s Manhattan Island Marathon Swim. The California swimmer is holding a strong 73 stroke per minute pass as she passes through Hells Gate where the water from the Sound
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Donal Buckley who eloquently explains marathon swimming to a global audience is feeling it today, despite swimming 28.5 miles in water that is much too warm for his liking. Buckley is swimming in New York City in today’s Manhattan Island Marathon Swim where his speed has ranged from 0 miles per hour when he was
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Oracle founder Larry Ellison reportedly purchased 98% of the Hawaiian island of Lanai which is the start of the annual Maui Channel Swim and site of 234 swimmers who have crossed the 9.6-mile channel. The third-richest American with a net worth of US$36 billion, the US$500+ purchase of the sixth-largest island in Hawaii, loves big
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Without a doubt, Michael Phelps would be a great open water swimmer, if not one of the best of all time. The open water swimming world may never see Phelps body surf into shore, be fed from an escort boat or lead a pack around a turn buoy, but his aquatic talents would grace the
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The world is covered 70% with water … presenting almost unlimited opportunities to do unprecedented open water swims. Swim from point a to point B, swim across a lake, swim around an island, swim between two islands or across in a channel…outside of the usual waterways like the English Channel or the Rottnest Channel…and it
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