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The highly respected and popular Sid Cassidy returned to the FINA Technical Open Water Swimming Committee (FINA TOWSC) upon the approval of Cornel Marculescu. Sid Cassidy rejoins his colleagues on FINA TOWSC including Ronnie Wong (Chairman), Jorge Delgado, Flavio Bomio, Dr. Khwaja Aziz, Valerijus Belovas, Tomas Haces German, Samuel Greetham, Zouheir El Moufti, Andrea Prayer, […]
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Black In The Day Of Marathon Swimming Courtesy of WOWSA, Black Sea. In 1890, a 59 km open water swim was held between the cities of Batumi and Poti in Georgia along the Black Sea. 18th century map shows the area around Batumi and the modern-day coastline along the Black Sea. Copyright © 2008 –
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Philip Rush, one of the greatest channel swimmers of all time, was recently elected to the board of directors of the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame. A native of New Zealand and a 1985 inductee in the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame, he is now the national team coach of New Zealand and
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Stéphane Lecat was inducted in the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame in 2007 as an Honor Swimmer and was recently elected to the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame board of directors in 2011. Stéphane was one of the premier professional marathon swimmers in the late 1990’s and early 2000’s. He was the FINA
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Ned Denison tells this story of his fellow Irish marathon swimmer who has now landed in Honolulu to get ready to attempt the 26-mile Molokai Channel, just days after completing the Catalina Channel: “It seems that Stephen Redmond had settled on his line to get around the Fastnet Rock [the treacherous most southerly point in
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Swimming World Magazine presents a special edition of The Morning Swim Show that features a conversation with Claire Crippen who spoke about her brother Fran Crippen one year after his untimely death in Dubai during a FINA 10K Marathon Swimming World Cup race. Claire talks about Fran’s personality, his enthusiasm for the sport and how
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On the one-year anniversary of Fran Crippen’s death in Dubai, we bow our heads in respect and awe of Fran’s life and legacy and of his family. It is with obvious reason that the Crippen Family is rightly called the First Family of Swimming in the United States. Thinking about what Fran had been lobbying
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No doubt about it, there is no better time to be an open water swimmer in America than now. With President Obama being a decent body surfer and open water swimmer (see here and here), along with professional athletes like Tim Duncan and television commentators like Marcellus Willey being comfortable in the open water, the
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The Japan to Taiwan Ocean Swim Challenge (>日台黒潮泳断チャレンジ) was a 6-person, non-stop relay of 150 kilometers from Okinawa, Japan to Suou, Taiwan in September. The 6 swimmers braved the strong Kuroshio current, sharks, jellyfish and rough conditions for over 52 hours to successfully complete this unprecedented swim. The swimmers
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Skip Storch attempted to swim from Cuba to Florida on June 2-3, 1993. With great fanfare and great expense, Skip started north from Cuba to his goal of Florida. “During the night, I was exposed to millions of jellyfish. The cage pushed most jellyfish aside, but the exception were the 3-foot orange jellyfish that exploded
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