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Besides the Strait of Gibraltar between Spain and Morocco, there are two other marathon swims in Spain: La Batalla De Rande A Nado and the Ultramarató de l’Ebre 30830 Swim Marathon. La Batalla De Rande A Nado is a 27K (16.7 mile) wetsuit swim on July 8th between the Cies Islands, at the mouth of […]
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Jose Diaz introduces the Travesía Internacional Xuquer-Bahia de Cullera that began in 1926 and will next be held on June 30th and July 1st. Jose explains the history of the 10K International Cruise Cullera Xuquer-Bay here. Copyright © 2012 by Open Water Source
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The Gar Woods Polar Bear Swim always draw a colorful, eclectic crowd to its high-altitude, low-temperature swim. At an altitude of 6,229 feet (meters) of Lake Tahoe, the water temperature at 39°C (4°C) throughout the 250-yard swim feels especially cool. With a cut-off time of 20 minutes, a crowd gathers to see who is the
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You gotta like the hussle and finish of Douglas Miller who was the fastest Fijian in the annual 19K Fiji Swims in August 2011. His run up the beach was the culmination of his 19K roughwater swim from the main island of Fiji to Beachcomber Island. The young Fiji pool and open water swimmer is
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Bondi surf lifesaver and champion ocean swimmer, Louise Stevenson, completed a 38K double crossing between idyllic Beachcomber Island to Port Denarau through the Mamanuca Islands in Fiji. Her unprecedented solo swim was part of the Fiji Swims in August to raise funds for the 2011 Christchurch Earthquake tragedy. One of Australia’s best female ocean swimmers,
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How big is the aQuellé Midmar Mile? It is such a large race that there were 1 set of triplets and 70 sets of twins participating in the annual open water swimming event in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. Looking at the elite women’s race at the aQuellé Midmar Mile, it appeared that Keri-Anne Payne (left) and
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In the build-up to the Olympic Marathon Swimming 10km at the 2012 London Olympics, American television viewers will probably hear a bit about Walden Pond, one of the open water training locations for world champion Alex Meyer. The Harvard graduate occasionally trains at the famous waterhole in Concord, Massachusetts where many other open water swimmers
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MAINE, USA. The 12th annual Polar Bear Swim in Calais saw daring dippers plunged into the Passamaquoddy Bay on Friday to help raise money for the Ronald McDonald House in Bangor. More than 150 people, including 30 college students dressed in Peter Pan costumes, U.S. Border Patrol, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, U.S. Fish and
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2008 Olympian Chad Ho took his traditional position on the left side of the starting line-up on the 39th annual
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Keri-Anne Payne and Ashley Twichell went stroke-for-stroke, literally, for 1,600 meters. After a crazy start on the shore of the Midmar Dam, they both shot out like a canon. “We occasionally bumped into each other,” recalled 22-year-old Ashley who was visiting South Africa for the first time to compete in the world-famous aQuellé Midmar Mile.
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