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The State New Zealand 10km Open Water Swim in Lake Taupo served as a qualification race for the host swimmers from New Zealand. Faced with some of the fastest professional marathon swimmers on the planet, Cara Baker and Kane Radford maintained a sufficient pace in order to keep Olympic dreams alive. 5K world champion Melissa […]
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The Diamond Lake Open Water Challenge is a multi-event open water swim in Cassopolis, Michigan every June. A great early-season event in the Midwest calendar, within the hotbed of triathlete in the state of 10,000 lakes, it has been drawing raves from triathletes and swimmers alike. The Diamond Lake Open Water Challenge, hosted by Precision
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Tri-Valley Masters will host its annual 2-day Open Water Festival at Lake Del Valle in northern California on June 9th and 10th. They will stage a 5K and 10K race on Saturday and a 3/4 mile and 2.5K race on Sunday. Race Director Bill McCracken explains, “The Del Valle Open Water Festival specifically hosts the
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The word, skipper, mean the captain of any vessel or manager, coach or leader of a sports team. The common English word comes from a variety of sources including Middle English which was derived from the Middle Dutch word scip. It also was derived from Middle Low German and the Middle Dutch word schipper or
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The King and Queen of the Sea (Rei e Rainha do Mar) was memorialized in its 2011 video below. The professional and amateur race drew over 2,000 competitors in a fun-filled event that challenged many this year due to unseasonably cool water temperatures in Rio de Janeiro on the 2016 Rio Olympics marathon swimming course.
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Joel Enoch, the National Open Water Swimming Ranking Series Coordinator, and Simon Griffiths, Editor and Publisher of H2Open Magazine, announced H2Open Day. This extravaganza is scheduled for April 28th at the Reading Lake Hotel in England. The special evnt will include demonstrations, coaching sessions, kit testing and the chance to jump into the lake for
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Joel Enoch, Race Series Coordinator, and Simon Griffiths, Editor/Race Series Director of H2Open Magazine, announced the National Open Water Swimming Ranking Series in Great Britain. It is Britain’s first open water swimming ranking series in a joint partnership with seven race organisers. The concept is simple. Swimmers will have to complete three of the seven
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The Czech Open Water Swimming Cup 2012 will consists of 25 swimming marathons. 21 races will be held in open water venues around the Czech Republic; three competitions will be indoor long-distance swimming competitions (5000 meters) and one event is a 24-hour swim. The key races include the Czech Championships held on April 15th, a
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John Daprato is writing an autobiography about his comeback swim and a year of his life preparing for the Boston Light Swim. “It could be compared to a book about mountain climbing with the added element of an older prize-fighter trying to make a comeback, with the Boston Light being my high mountain with time
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LATVIA. Jack Bright will be at the Latvia next week to participate in the 2012 World Winter Swimming Championships. He will also be recruiting swimmers capable of taking part in the Bering Strait relay, formally known as the 86K First Intercontinental Swimming Relay From Eurasia To America Across The Bering Strait. With upwards to 68
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