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World Open Water Swimming Federation, a human-powered project
As soon as the open water swimmers, divers and water polo players started to arrive in Shanghai from airports around the world, the gracious Chinese hosts whisked the surprised aquatic athletes from their arrival gate right through passport control and onto waiting buses. The athletes were certainly treated like the VIPs. American Christine Jennings described […]
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Openwaterpedia conveniently enables information on the world’s swimming sites in oceans, lakes, bays, estuaries, lagoons, canals, channels, beaches, rivers, reservoirs, dams and lidos to be shared by the global open water swimming community. Examples like Naples Island (see photo on left), Marine Stadium in Long Beach, California and Waikiki Beach in Honolulu, Hawaii are posted
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Bruckner Chase produced this video recap of the 2011 Special Olympics World Summer Games 1.5K in the Schinias Sailing Venue in the Bay of Marathon on the Aegean Sea on July 1st. Copyright © 2011 by Open Water Source
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Dr. Sam Freas has always been a visionary for the sport of open water swimming. He has also developed and help guide the careers of many swimmers including 7-time world champion Shelley Taylor-Smith and her male counterpart and 7-time world professional marathon swimming champion Paul Asmuth. Dr. Freas is one of the world’s most passionate,
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FINA confirmed that the 5K, 10K (Olympic 10K Marathon Swim qualifier), the newly introduced 5K Team Trial and 25K races will be televised from its 2011 FINA World Swimming Championships in Shanghai. There will undoubtedly be high tension before each race, incredible tactical racing throughout each event and lots of emotion after each race –
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After a week of its soft launch, it is interesting to see who is being researched on Openwaterpedia. The hottest people seem to be those individuals with recent exploits in the open water swimming world. Ultra-marathon swimmer from Australia Penny Palfrey, world champion and Olympic 10K hopeful from the United States Alex Meyer (shown on
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Alex Meyer is one of the top swimmers heading to next week’s World Swimming Championships. He is one cool character with a Harvard University education to boot. He will count on those smarts in the über-competitive, tactical 10K marathon swim in Jinshan City Beach. The competitors are all arriving in Shanghai this week – staying
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On the back of the successful 1.5K open water swim at the Special Olympics World Summer Games in Athens, Special Olympics athletes worldwide are jumping into lakes, bays, oceans and rivers as the allure of the open water expands to previously under-served open water swimming communities. Bruckner Chase explains, “We added Special Olympics athletes to
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Swimming World TV interviewed Steven Munatones on a variety of topics from his new book Open Water Swimming to the allure of open water swimming that has inspired and challenged many people around the world. He also offers a preview of the world championships and who might contend for gold. Watch the visit SwimmingWorld.TV for
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The Santa Barbara 6-mile Ocean Swim was held today at the Semana Nautica Sports Festival where 32 participants competed in the competition. The race ran along the California coastline from Goleta Beach to Arroyo Burro Beach near the University of California Santa Barbara campus as thousands of Americans enjoyed a peaceful summer day. However, the
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