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After a week of constant, unseasonably hard rains with thundershowers, the skies let up and the waves settled down for a gorgeous running of the 10th annual Butterfield 800m Sea Swim on Seven Mile Beach in the Cayman Islands. “After all the weather we’ve been having, the conditions [for the race] were great,” said Bill […]
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In order to help his athletes prepare for cold water training, Beijing Sports University’s renowned marathon swimmer Zhang Jian and his colleagues at Beijing Sports University acclimate as best they can be purposefully turning off the pool heater and then enhancing the situation by pouring ice into the pool. 10 tons of ice to be
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Beijing Sports University’s renowned marathon swimmer Zhang Jian and colleague Zhang Jie offer a Quality Development Training Camp at Beijing Sports University. Zwang promotes cross-training as a healthy lifestyle with the Beijing Sports University Joint Beijing Triathlon Association. “The purpose is to improve sports awareness, cultivate interest in sports among the youth, improve their physique,
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Zhang Jian of China hopes to become the first person to swim across the 141 km (87.6 miles) Taiwan Strait. “It would be a dream come true,” said the Sports Director at Beijing Sports University who idea was first born when he swam across the 29.5 km Qiongzhou Strait in 1988. But his career has
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2,326 adult swimmers will take to the open water in the Adriatic Sea in Italy, where a record number will participate in the 14th FINA World Masters Championships from June 3-17. From 20 to over 100 years old, swimmers from Italy, Germany, France, Russia, USA, Great Britain, Brazil, Canada, Spain, Netherlands, Australia, Japan, Sweden, Venezuela,
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UltraRunning Magazine reported the number of ultra-distance runners in the United States was 52,000 in 2011 and 518,000 people finished a marathon run in the U.S. in 2011. How do the runners compare with their marathon swimming brethren in the U.S.? It seems the estimated number of swimmers remains still a tiny fraction of endurance
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Megan Melgaard, a Renaissance Women of the open water world, pays close attention to the amount and type of water and hydration she takes in, but it wasn’t until recently that she learned how important it is to monitor the amount of water going out. Melgaard, who races major endurance events across the globe and
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Kester Edwards, a former board director of Special Olympics International, and Special Olympics Cayman Islands under the leadership of Maxime Everson organized the first international Special Olympics open water swimming clinic. Over 25 coaches and open water swimming athletes from the Caribbean nations and North America participated in a 3-day workshop. The athletes did a
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Rudsel Maria is a special man and open water swimming coach from Curaçao, an island in the southern Caribbean Sea, off the Venezuelan coast. The tall charismatic coach formerly focused on pool swimming after he furthered his study in the Netherlands. Coach Maria is now utilizing his talents and time to guide Special Olympics athletes
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“He’s a fish outta water.” That comment is made frequently about good swimmers by their less aquatically-oriented friends on terra firma. It certainly applies to Evan Morrison, a business data analyst from Santa Barbara, California who co-founded the Marathon Swimmers Forum. The friendly face and graduate of Princeton University has turned his life-long passion for
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