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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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From Papua New Guinea to Indonesia. Then across the Red Sea from Asia to Africa, and across the Strait of Gibraltar from Spain to Africa. Then across the Bering Strait from Russia to America. Arnaud Chassery and Philippe Croizon have ambitious plans for their 5-swim series around the world: Copyright © 2012 by Open Water
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Courtesy of Fran Crippen Elevation Foundation
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Ana Marcela Cunha, the reigning world 25 km champion from Brazil, is always tough down the stretch. She has that unteachable competitive spirit that propels her forward when going goggle-to-goggle against her rivals. And it served her well in the FINA 10km Marathon Swimming World Cup race in Cancun, Mexico yesterday where she won a
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