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The first FINA World Junior Open Water Swimming Championships will be held in Canada in 2012. The August event will be held in the Welland Recreational Canal in Ontario, site of the annual Welland Four Bridges Swim. Swimming Canada’s CEO Pierre Lafontaine described the Welland Canal as perfect for open water racing, “The water conditions […]
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FINIS and Trent Grimsey are navigating the same course. With FINA rolling out a flurry of new open water swimming products in 2012 and a stronger, healthier Trent ready to continue his winning ways, the partnership makes sense. FINIS’ newest sponsored athlete is heading to Rio de Janeiro to compete at the King and Queen
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Stephen Redmond is nominated for the 2011 World Open Water Swimming Man of the Year. Learn more and vote HERE for the 2011 World Open Water Swimming Man of the Year, the 2011 World Open Water Swimming Performance of the Year, and the 2011 World Open Water Swimming Woman of the Year. Copyright © 2011
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San Diego’s Blair Cannon completed a fast 8 hour 18 minute Catalina Channel swim, the 7th fastest crossing of all time. He definitely did not want to waste any time as he was raising money for the Monarch School and the Great Friends Foundation. Blair is a San Diego-based philanthropist and vice president of Bernstein
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Steve West has been a world-class American breaststroker and surfer for three decades. At the age of 39, the Huntington Beach, California native and CEO of Project Insight, recently became the oldest American male to qualify for the U.S. Olympic Swimming Trials. In this conversation with Swimming World Magazine,
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Openwaterpedia is a comprehensive, multi-lingual online reference and research tool for the open water swimming community. With links, videos, photos and information, it is convenient for anyone to input, edit, do initial research, reference or enhance one’s knowledge and appreciation of the sport. An example is GoSwim.tv that enables the visitor to quickly grasp the
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Aditya Santosh Raut travels to world on his long-term plan to represent India in the Olympic 10km Marathon Swim. Along his aquatic travels, he has swum in 9 different seas or channels in 9 different countries on 5 continents; an impressive resume for a young man. Besides the well-known swims such as the English Channel
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FINA Aquatics World Magazine selected Thomas Lurz and Keri-Anne Payne as its Open Water Swimming Athletes of the Year based on a vote by its 202 National Member Federations, media and aquatic experts: Thomas and Keri-Anne continued their sweep of the awards season based on their outstanding performances at the world championships and overall dominance
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Richard Weinberger of Victoria, the young and up-and-coming competitor who won the London 10km Marathon Swimming International event and a gold medalist in the 2011 Guadalajara Pan American Games, was named Canada’s 2011 Open Water Swimmer of the Year. His Victoria coach, former Olympian Ron Jacks, was selected Canada’s 2011 Open Water Coach of the
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Simon Murie keeps bringing the challenge and allure of the open water swimming world closer to its growing community. With the aim of introducing open water to experienced and inexperienced swimmers in a safe yet challenging environment, he organizes hundreds of weekend and week-long tours and training camps around the world. Thousands of people improve
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