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Dr. Gail Grabowsky, a fast ocean swimmer, remarkable overall athlete, author and a renowned biologist from Hawaii, has done dozens of Waikiki Roughwater Swims during her career – and swum the Waikiki Roughwater Swim course hundreds of times throughout various times of the day. With the Waikiki Roughwater Swim coming up on Labor Day Monday, […]
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Diana Nyad‘s Xtreme Dream started at 7:45 pm on a Sunday night and finished at 12:28 am on a Tuesday morning for a total of 28 hours 42 minutes 50 seconds in the water. She started in Cuba and exited at a point (N 23º 43.975’ W 81º 58.143’) 56.16 statute miles (or 48.8 nautical
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Richard Haan of the Czech Republic is on the Half Century Club list for the English Channel. After three unsuccessful attempts between 1999 and 2002, he completed his Channel swim in July 2005 in 14 hours 7 minutes as a 57-year-old. He is also a member of the Half Century Club for the Strait of
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The Engines Behind The Irish Sea Swim Courtesy of Martin Cullen, Irish Sea. While the celebrities grabbed the headlines and generated a lot of media interest in the 56-mile relay crossing of the Irish Sea, it was the little-known swimmers in The Swim who provided the engine to successfully make the crossing. Liane Llewellyn, Olly
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The Czech National Open Water Swimming Championships was especially exciting this year with the participation of all of the country’s top swimmers. The national titles were gained by Olympians Jana Pechanová, Rostislav Vitek as well as Silvie Rybarova and Jan Posmourny. But the Championships were held under changing conditions: it was hot (35°C) on Friday,
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Intrepid swimmers will swim 26 miles across Lake Memphremagog that lies between the state of Vermont in the United States and the province of Québec, Canada in search of Memphré. In Search of Memphré is a new international cross-border 26-mile marathon swimming event that harks back to the early days of the Traversée internationale du
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TUNISIA. Day by day, kilometer by kilometer, beach by beach, Nejib Belhedi is making his way 1,400 kilometers along the entire coast of his native Tunisia. Nejib‘s stage swim, called the 1400K Swim Across Tunisia, is a lofty goal. As he works his way across the country, support from people of all backgrounds is picking
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The Associated Press and the Watertown Daily News reported that 66-year-old Peter Hendley was swimming from Grenell Island to Murray Island in Alexandria Bay in New York when he was hit by a boat. Peter had been swimming with a small buoy to alert others that he was in the water. However, visibility was an
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Lance Ogden set a new record with a time of 4:01:07 on the 17.5-mile Ederle Swim course from Manhattan Island in New York City to Sandy Hook in New Jersey. He averaged over 4 miles per hour throughout the swim and was escorted by an all-star crew alongside the boat Together II. Although the last
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The World Open Water Swimming Association presents the Personalities of Open Water Swimmer. It is a Facebook quiz here. The sport of open water swimming attracts people of all ages, abilities, backgrounds and cultures. Perhaps because the sport holds its competitions in oceans, lakes, rivers, bays, canals, channels, and reservoirs, each with its own characteristics
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