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Dr. Jane Katz, a recipient of a Certificate of Merit by the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame received two additional awards at the 2011 International Master Swimming Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony at the United States Aquatics Sports conference in Jacksonville, Florida. Dr. Katz received the 2011 June Krauser USMS Communication Award and the […]
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At the recent United States Aquatic Sports, USA Swimming‘s Board of Directors approved a maximum water temperature of 85°F (29.45°C) for its sanctioned open water events. What is great about this new rule of USA Swimming is that it was decided in a completely transparent manner and is now set in stone. The rule was
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Six Japanese swimmers swam 95 miles (150 kilometers) from Yonaguni Island in Okinawa, Japan through heavy winds and rough seas to Suao Harbor along the north eastern coast of Taiwan in an unprecedented cross-border swim. The relay swim was done as a show of gratitude to Taiwan for its help after the March earthquake and
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Portuguese man-o-war, jellyfish and sharks are marine life well-known to open water swimmers. Recently, an open water swimmer was attacked by a seal in San Francisco Bay and open water swimmers have been dive bombed by birds in Japan. But as more and more swimmers take to the open water, there are an increasing amount
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Like the 5K Team Event at the World Championships, team pursuit relays of all different formats are becoming more and more popular at open water competitions around the world. The Henley Swim at the picturesque Queenford Lakes, south of Oxford, featured a 4 x 1K relay. Similar to the team events at the Japan International
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Kane Radford of New Zealand boomeranged out of the cove at Angel Island and hedged his bets that a conservative course was the best bet in the 12th annual RCP Tiburon Mile. But once Kane was out in the middle of the channel between Angel Island and the Marin County town of Tiburon, he let
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The first 22 swimmers to swim the length of Lake Tahoe include a number of outanding marathon swimmers.
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Phil White of the Northeast Open Water Swimming Association (NEKOWSA) announced its schedule of open water swims in the Northeast Kingdom for 2012. June 16, 2012 – Son of a Swim IV is on June 16 on Lake Memphremagog, Newport, Vermont. An informal qualifying swim for those who need to complete a 2-, 4- or
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For over four decades, the Naples Island Swim continues on. The California classic consisted of five events in Long Beach, California’s Los Alamitos Bay. Race director Merrit Johnson Morris, describes the various courses in this unique venue, “The one-mile race cuts through the canals in middle of Naples Island. The 3-mile race is a circumnavigational
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Dr. Genadijus Sokolovas was the USA Swimming Director of Physiology and Director of Sports Science from 2000 and 2008. He has the world’s largest data base of swimmer’s lactate threshold of anyone in the world due to his 20+ years of testing and analyzing lactate thresholds of elite swimmers from Russia to the U.S.A. Dr.