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Like Mount Everest among mountaineers, Tour de France among cyclists and the Olympics among runners, the shadow of the English Channel stretches far and wide over the elite echelons of the marathon swimming world. Of the 226 inductees in the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame, over 45% have swum the English Channel. These Channel […]
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Claire Duncan, Mark Blewitt and Matt Cox, three swimmers who have lived with type 1 diabetes for more than ten years, were successful on their six-person relay across the English Channel in July 2011. The trio helped raise funds for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation while swimming with a waterproof insulin pump (Animas® Vibe) with
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STANFORD. Phil Cutti, an exercise physiologist at Stanford’s Human Performance Lab at Stanford University talked about the myriad logistical issues he and his teammates from the Night Train Swimmers face in their 331-mile (532K) charity relay swim along the coast of California. The Night Train Swimmers are training for this unprecedented 6-person relay from the
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DONEGAL, IRELAND. South African extreme swimmer and Cadiz Freedom Swim race director Ram Barkai posted photos from his ice swim with Nuala Moore and Anne Marie Ward in Creeslough Donegal, Ireland. The rough ice swim ushered in the New Year in a way Nuala and Anne Marie will never forget. Ram confirmed the water temperature
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SANTA CLARA, CALIFORNIA. Santa Clara Swim Club has one of the richest traditions in the history of amateur athletics. Swimmers from the club won 51 Olympic gold, 17 silver and 11 bronze medals. But it roots are partly in the open water. Starting with 13 swimmers, the team initially practiced at Santa Clara High School
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WASHINGTON D.C. Tim Shriver, Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer of the Special Olympics, is a visionary friend and great fan of open water swimming. In Athens at the 2011 Special Olympics World Summer Games, Tim was extremely impressed with the 35 Special Olympics athletes who competed in the 1.5K race
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UTAH. How times are changing. Registration opened for the Great Salt Lake Open Water Marathon Swim opened up at precisely 12:00 midnight on New Year’s day 2012. Between the two events (1 mile and 8 miles), the longer marathon swim filled up in less than two days. The 8-mile race is capped at 12 swimmers,
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As is traditional, the 2012 FINA Open Water Swimming Grand Prix starts up in Argentina with a trio of professional marathon swims in Rosario, Santa Fe-Coronda and Hernandarias-Parana. The pro circuit then shifts to Capri-Napoli in Italy, Lac St-Jean and Lac Memphremagog in Canada, Sabac in Serbia and Ohrid Lake in Macedonia. World Open Water
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On New Year’s Day, Ochheuteal Beach in Cambodia, selected as one of the Most Beautiful Bays in the World, celebrated with a multi-event sea festival. Organized by Cambodia’s Ministries of Tourism and Culture, the beach was packed as Hem Thon Ponloeu won the men’s 5K race in 1:13:50 over Leom Uddom and Phin Rotha. Hem
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SANTA BARBARA. Scott Zornig of the Santa Barbara Channel Swimming Association announced the Southern California Eight. The Southern California Eight becomes another destination goal for the growing marathon and channel swimming community to set off and achieve. In addition to the Oceans Seven, Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming, the Still Water 8, the Five
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