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Building upon the recent visit by two extreme swimmers from Ireland (Nuala Moore and Anne Marie Ward), swimmers from England, Malta, Portugal and Libya will join Nejib Belhedi on his Swim of Peace. The Swim of Peace is the Mahdia stage of his groundbreaking 1400K Swim Across Tunisia. These international representatives include a number of […]
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114 swimmers will compete in the first National Kimberly Lake Argyle Swim on May 5th. Swimmers of all ages are traveling to the extreme endurance event from Western Australia, the Northern Territory, Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria as well as from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to compete in the 10 km and 20 km solo
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Harry Briggs, The Paddlin’ Professor, did a 2-mile fundraising swim across Kincaid Lake in Louisiana on May 17, 2012.
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The athletes competing in the FINA 15 km Open Water Swimming Grand Prix race (Maratón Cancún) in Cancun, Mexico today include the same athletes who competed in Tuesday’s FINA 10K Marathon Swimming World Cup. The athletes were treated very well by the Federación Mexicana de Natación who hosted the 88 marathon swimmers, coach, administrators and
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Letitia Sweitzer has a special surprise for her uncle, International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame inductee Dr. Harry Briggs. “I have been working on my uncle’s memoirs and finally got it published just in time for his 91st birthday on May 17th when he’ll swim 2 miles across a lake in Louisiana to reach his
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Craig Dietz will speak at the 2012 Global Open Water Swimming Conference … and will enter the 5 km race in Marine Stadium in Long Beach, California this coming September. Copyright © 2012 by Open Water Source
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Don Watson Doing It The Hinsdale Way Courtesy of WOWSA, Hinsdale, Illinois. Don Watson was a renowned pool and marathon swimming coach whose relationship with his athletes and the successes that they shared remain a standard among the coaching community. Coach Watson coached John Kinsella and Sandra Bucha throughout their professional marathon swimming careers and
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Private banker Darren Miller of Pittsburgh is preparing to be Barra-esque and step up his mileage this summer with a hard-core schedule of solo races and events. On behalf of Team Forever, he will take on the Strait of Gibraltar in May, the Manhattan Island Marathon Swim in June, the 26-mile Red River Swim in
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Ana Marcela Cunha, the reigning world 25 km champion from Brazil, won a closely fought battle against a world-class crown in Cancun on Tuesday’s FINA 10km Marathon Swimming World Cup race. Cunhawon a close race over Germany’s Angela Maurer and Italy’s Martina Grimaldi as well as several other Olympians and top pros. The results are
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