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World Open Water Swimming Federation, a human-powered project
In Western Australia, the First National Lake Argyle Swim saw 117 swimmers with a number of colorful team names competing on May 5th for glory and cash and prizes valued over $7,000. 34-year-old Keira Macfarlane from Scarborough, Western Australia won the 20 km solo race in 5 hours 16 minutes just slightly ahead of the […]
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Forty-two swimmers ranging of all ages and abilities participated in the 9th Annual Escape from Managaha sponsored by the Saipan Swim Club. With perfect conditions for the 2.4 km channel swim from Mañagaha to American Memorial Park, the swimmers were supported and monitored by 12 kayakers, the Sea Spray and Department of Public Safety Jet
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. How many open water swimmers have met like-minded swimmers online? Thousands? Tens of thousands? Hundreds of thousands? The concept of an open water swimming community on the late 19th century – men hanging around the L Street Bathhouse in Boston or the Brighton Swimming Club in England – has
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Argentine marathon swimming great Alfredo Camarero Guzman passed away yesterday. As one of the early pioneers of marathon swimming in Argentina and on the professional marathon swimming circuit in the 1950s, the dashing Camarero leaves a long legacy and inspired many great marathon swimmers during his prolific career. A native of Rosario, he was inducted
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Jayson Chin is a renowned Orthotist Prosthetist from Cape Town, South Africa who heads the Cape Amputee Clinic where all aspects of life as an amputee are addressed. The Cape Amputee Clinic often manufactures ‘shower legs’ for amputees that can get wet and are used for showering, wadding into water and walking on the beach.
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Endurance athletes in every sport are a breed apart. They are often more cerebral than celebrated, more introverted than extroverted, more inspirational than arrogant. They know what they want and they set an agenda to achieve their goals in a methodical manner. Those in the aquatic world are especially driven with their head in the
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There are well-known open water swimming waterways around the world: Sandycove Island (Ireland), Strait of Messina (Sicily), Cape Town (South Africa), Dover Harbour (England), Seven Mile Beach (Grand Cayman), Copacabana Beach (Rio de Janeiro) and Aquatic Park (San Francisco). While there are well-known personalities in each of these venues volunteering their time, Darrin Connolly from
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Turn buoys are some of the most key elements of the open water swimming world. Inflatable, portable floating guide posts of the waterworld. They immediately indicate a point, a turn, a hazard, a shore, a current, a pier, a jetty, rocks or the finish on a loop course, out-and-back course or geometrically shaped courses. In
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The classic 58-minute head-to-head, leave-it-all-in-the-water duel between Ashley Twichell and Emily Brunemann at the 2012 USA Swimming National Open Water Swimming Championship 5 km race is shown in its entirety below. “I got touched out by 3 tenths of a second at the world championships so that played on my mind,” said Twichell who won
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Muhammad Ali vs. Joe Frazier. Larry Bird vs. Magic Johnson. Steve Ovett vs. Sebastian Coe. Arnold Palmer vs. Jack Nicklaus. Tiger Woods vs. Phil Mickelson. Roger Federer vs. Rafael Nadal. Andy Irons vs. Kelly Slater. Great rivalries in sports showcase intense competition between focused, committed athletes often competing for something larger than themselves: their teammates,
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