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Kimberley Chambers, a relatively newcomer to marathon swimming with two Farallon Islands relay swims to her name, received a good education en route to her successful 8 hour 26 minute crossing of the Cook Strait today. Taking off quickly from South Island, the native from New Zealand now working in San Francisco for Adobe, reached […]
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Martin Strel, together with his son and manager Borut, will bring their unique stories and engaging personalities to the American West in 2012, starting in the magnificent Lake Powell. While Martin, known as the Big River Man, established his reputation as a stage swimmer overcoming all kinds of practical dangers down the Amazon, Yangtze, Paraná,
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Vladimir Grebenkine is the president of the Universal Marathon Cold Swimming Association and chairman of Federation of health training and sports winter swimming of Russian Federation. He is one intense individual. “The Universal Marathon Cold Swimming Association unites the adherents of the remarkable people who struggle with a hard enemy of man: the COLD. We
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56% of the Russian voting population voted in the fifth Russian presidential election held in the nation’s post-Soviet history. Including several extreme swimmers who came to the voting polls in Siberia in their swimsuits in the -2°C weather. “We’ve voted like this four times already and plan to unite all Siberian ice swimmers for the
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Mohammad Hossein Bibi Kobadi, a 34-year-old swimming and diving coach, is now over 80% of the way over with his 1000K assisted stage swim in the Persian Gulf from the Strait of Hormuz to Arvand Kenar along the coast of southeastern Iran. His course for his solo Persian Gulf Swim on left. Originally scheduled to
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The 68ª Travessia de l’estany de Banyoles got off to a great runnng start… And the younger ones at the 84th Travessia al Port de Barcelona are learning how to just dive into the sport… Copyright © 2012 by Open Water Source
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The Ibiza Ultra Team is a multi-discipline individual and team competition in Spain on April 28th. Soloists and team members can choose among doing 107K of mountain biking in Ibiza, Spain in a magnificent mountainous route, 70K of trail running crossing the island’s mountains and coves or 10.6K Traversía de la Posidonia – Formentera. The
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The project MARNATON organizes three races in northern Spain with MARNATON eDreams Cap de Crues – Cadaqués as its crown jewel. The Cadaqués event is held in the Cap de Creus Natural Park where swimmers traverse 6.5K between the Cap de Creus and Cadaqués. The journey begins in Cala Jugadora (in the Parque Natural de
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The Outdoor Swimming Society is organising another Dart 10K, an Olympic marathon distance swimming event, down the River Dart on September 22nd. The downstream 10K swim, that sells out quickly, in England takes the swimmers downstream through the rolling hills of Devon to the small waterside village of Dittisham. With wetsuits mandatory and an emphasis