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The Open water pursuit or team pursuit are races generally between 2 – 5 km that can beloop, out-and-back or point-to-point courses open to swimmers of all ages, backgrounds and abilities. In the team pursuit (or team time trial), athletes swim closely together with teammates whose number varies race to race. In the European Open […]
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While the team pursuit concept is popular in other sports, indoor cycling and short-track speed skating), it will debut at the FINA World Championships today at Jinshan City Beach in Shanghai. At FINA, the event is called the 5K Team Event or the 5K Team Time Trial. In the race, there are three athletes per
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. After Day One and Day Two at the 2011 FINA World Championships… The Daily News of Open Water Swimming had time to reflect on the outcome of the races… Here are 10 impressions that come immediately to mind: The top Greek athletes are clearly ready to win some Olympic
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With two days of exciting competition behind us at the 2011 FINA Open Water Swimming Championships, it’s on to the 5K team pursuit event today. This is an exciting event that features 3 swimmers (two from one gender and one from the other – e.g., 2 men, 1 woman, or 2 women and 1 man)
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The men’s 10K championship race was extraordinarily strategic – and the top 10 proved their open water savvy. With experience comes wisdom in the open water, especially in such a compact course with 68 world-class competitors. And the top 10 were certainly wise men of the open water in Shanghai. Their ages are as follows:
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Simply click on the image above to enlarge it or watch the video below. Official Results for the Men’s 10K World Championship Swim: 1. Spyros Gianniotis (GRE) 1:54:24.7 2. Thomas Lurz (GER) 1:54:27.2 3. Sergey Bolshakov (RUS) 1:54:31.8 4. Alex Meyer (USA) 1:54:33.1 5. Ky Hurst (AUS) 1:54:33.9 [Read More…] Copyright World Open Water Swimming
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Reporting from Shanghai. These are the results from the women’s FINA World Championship 10K Olympic Qualifier in Shanghai. The top 10 finishers have secured spots in the 2012 London Olympics. 1. Keri-Anne Payne (GBR) 2:01:58.12. Martina Grimaldi (ITA) 2:01:59.93. Marianna Lymperta (GRE) 2:01:01.84. Melissa Gorman (AUS) 2:01:12.05. Cecilia Biagioli (ARG) 2:01:12.06. Poliana Okimoto (BRA) 2:01:13.67.
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The Men’s 10K Championship It’s A Clash of the Titans in Open Water Swimming 5 world champions will collide in a marathon swimming clash of the titans today at 9 am Shanghai time. [Read More…]
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Contest Announcement!Open Water Source will be covering today’s Men’s 10K World Championship. Get in with us in our “pick gold, silver & bronze” contest. Send you’re prediction of the top 3 finishers, in order of finish, to: mike@openwatersource.com and you can win a free copy of Steven Munatones’ new book Open Water Swimming. Contest Conditions:Entries
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Open Water Source is giving away a free SPEEDO AquaBeat MP3 player to the person who tags the most number of photos or comments on the photos from today’s men’s 10K world championship race. The contest will start at 9 am Beijing time and will end 4 hours later at 1 pm Beijing time. Open
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