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ARGENTINA. The Maratón Internacional Hernandarias – Paraná FINA Open Water Swimming Grand Prix was held this afternoon in the Paraná River. Although athletes prepared for the 88K, one of the world’s longest open water races, weather forced the event to be cut short to only a 5K event. On the men’s side, Trent Grimsey from […]
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Ben Campbell-MacDonald, a Policy Analyst with the National Health Committee of New Zealand, completed an unprecedented 81K 18.5-hour solo wetsuit swim across Lake Wakatipu in New Zealand from Kingston on the lake’s southern point to Glenorchy on its northern tip. Lake Wakatipu is in the South Island, is New Zealand’s longest lake and is renowned
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Goggles and jet travel were game-changers over the past century in the open water world. Goggles enabled training times to lengthen and intercontinental jets made travel significantly faster and easier to different competitions and locations. Online social networks and GPS on escort boats similarly help revolutionize the sport of open water swimming. Not only can
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In the second freak accident to hit the elite echelon of America’s professional marathon swimmers in recent months, Olympian Alex Meyer suffered a fracture in his collarbone caused by a bicycle accident. His injury comes after the double leg fracture that his American open water swimming team member Christine Jennings suffered in a professional race
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IRELAND. Anne Marie Ward decided on short notice to do a short swim. With the calm surface water at 4.5°C (40.1°C) and the water below at 3°C (37.4°C), Anne Marie approached it as a training swim under light rains and took off with her crew of Noel Brenann, Willie Sheridan and Ryan Ward. Her time
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Alexander Studzinski, one of the top professional marathon swimmers in the world, had to cut his early season short with a cut sustained during a recent swim. “My cut was from a steel cable. The course was triangular and we had to swim it six times. When we were swimming against the current, a steel
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Surfing shares the inherent risks of open water swimming. With injury and possible death a possibility, especially at the extreme niche of big-wave surfing, the surfing industry and entrepreneurs to continue to develop safety standards and equipment. In the video below, famed big-wave surfer Shane Dorian describes how the idea for the Billabong V1 wetsuit
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Maratón Internacional Hernandarias – Paraná, the longest FINA Open Water Swimming Grand Prix race and one of the world’s top open water swims, from the city Hernandarias to Paraná in Argentina was cancelled due to an unanticipated storm. The 54.6-mile professional marathon race may be modified to a 5K race based on the latest discussions
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The overcast skies and jellyfish of the North Channel. The Great White Sharks and gray tidal harshness of the Farallon Islands. The bioluminescense and stillness of night swimming in the Catalina Channel. The massive rush at the start of the Midmar Mile, Great North Swim and Waikiki Roughwater Swim. The stark cold of the Cadiz
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Back in 1979, Michael Miller and Ian Emberson waited months to swim across the Molokai Channel. The duo waited patiently in those pre-GPS days for optimal conditions. This is their story: Daily News of Open Water Swimming: Why did you want to cross this channel? Michael: There were several reasons. Since I moved to Hawaii
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