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With the Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming under his belt, Scott Coleman is tied for 3rd on the All-Time Oceans Seven quest. He now stands shoulder-to-shoulder with marathon swimming stalwarts such as James Pittar, Kevin Murphy, Forrest Nelson, Bula Chowdhury Chakraborty, Tom Hecker and Pieter Christian Jongeneel Anderica. Scott has traveled the world accomplishing […]
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Janel Jorgensen McArdle, President of Swim Across America, made a splash as a teenager winning two gold medals at the Pan American Games and silver medal at the 1988 Seoul Olympics in South Korea. At Stanford University, she set four American records, was a 27-time All American and won 15 NCAA championship titles. After her
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Swimmers do it. Runners do it. Basketball players do it, and many other Olympic athletes give it a college try too. Coaches love it and it helps them win tournaments, meets and games. Elite athletes from around the world understand the American collegiate system where college athletic and academic scholarships enable talented athletes to receive
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The most recent class of inductees to the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame will be honored in Long Beach, California on September 22nd at a formal dinner at the 2012 Global Open Water Swimming Conference. The multi-national heroes and heroines include: • Larisa Ilchenko (Russia) 2008 Olympic 10K Marathon Swim gold medalist and multi-time
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The Everest Academy in Bangladesh will hold its first international marathon swim this week on March 17th: the 16.1K International Bangla Channel Marathon Swim across the Bangla Channel. In addition to the swimmers who will do the one-way crossing, Lipton Sarkar and English Channel swimmer Milko van Gool (shown on left) from the Netherlands will
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In 1972, American marathon runner Frank Shorter won the 1972 Munich Olympics marathon run. The Yale graduate’s victory was splashed on television, sparking a tremendous interest in running in the 1970s. In 1982, Julie Moss dramatically lost the Ironman triathlon in Hawaii after severely dehydrated. Her agonizing stagger and crawling towards the end of the
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The most popular triathlons in the New York City area are sold out, but there are still ways to get in and compete. Marjorie Spitz of Swim Free is inviting swimmers, triathletes, endurance enthusiasts and fitness athletes of all abilities and backgrounds to sign up for Swim Free‘s NYC Triathlon and Ironman teams. “The deadline
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It is never to early to plan ahead in the open water world. With 522 days to go and 12,528 possible hours to prepare, Jamie Patrick announced the 1st annual Myrtle Huddleston Honorary Swim in Lake Tahoe on August 17th 2013. “Ms. Huddleston was the first person to swim the width of Lake Tahoe back
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Justine Drury and Kate Vines are expanding upon their successful 9 hour 58 minute two-person English Channel relay, SNC Channelling Positivity. The dynamic duo that raised nearly £13,000 for the South Nottingham College and Teenage Cancer Trust from their 2011 English Channel swim and received the Outstanding Achievement Award at the 2011 Nottingham City Council’s
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The Henley Swim started in 2004 when two ex-oarsmen, Tom Kean and Jeremy Laming, decided to swim what they had rowed hundreds of times before. The swim uses exactly the same course as rowers with the course sandwiched between wooden booms and the shoreline. This provides swimmers with an easy dead reckoning to follow and
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