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Sid Cassidy, Jorge Delgado and Shelley Taylor-Smith relived their experiences and the dramatic stories of the Olympic 10K Marathon Swim at the 2008 Beijing Olympics at the 2011 Global Open Water Swimming Conference held at Columbia University. Sid’s speech about the incredible life and race of Olympic gold medalist Maarten van der Weijden was aquatic […]
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The Catalina Channel Swimming Federation was honored at the United Nations today the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame ceremonies in the Delegate Room. Hall of Famers Penny Dean, John York, Carol Sing and David Clark accepted the honors along with their Federation colleagues Linda Bamford and Paula Selby. The Federation is one of the
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Anne Marie Ward of Ireland gave a typically humble and profound acceptance speech at the United Nations when she received her 2010 World Open Water Swimming Woman of the Year award. The English Channel and North Channel swimmer gave great praise to those North Channel swimmers ahead of her and her support crew, some of
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Introducing one of USA Swimming national open water swim team members: Copyright © 2011 by Open Water Source
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Young Becca Mann proved that she can swim with America’s best open water swimmers at the USA Swimming National Open Water Swimming 5K National Championships in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Here are scenes from the 3-women race: Copyright © 2011 by Open Water Source
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With a number of visiting Olympians and world-class swimmers, a couple of former world champions from America, Chip Peterson (2005 10K) and Eva Fabian (2010 5K), won the annual open water swimming extravaganza Flowers Sea Swim in the Cayman Islands. With over US$100,000 in cash and prizes, the world’s richest open water swim attracted 830
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Time and time again, women have shown that they are faster than men in the open water. Whether it is the average time swimming across channels or around Manhattan Island, marathon swimming is the only athletic endeavor where the average female outperforms the average male. In the history of the Manhattan Island Marathon Swim, from
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Over the last week, hundreds of conservationists around the world have written and posted or shared information online about how Penny Palfrey’s escort team is a bunch of arrogant, shark-killing individuals who have no regard for the world’s endangered species. In these circles, it has become common knowledge that at least three sharks were brutally
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. It is going to be a great race around Manhattan Island today. The athletes – including former world champion Erica Rose who will be going up against three determined men: three-time winner John Van Wisse, fellow Aussie Oliver Wilkinson and Portugal’s Miguel Arrobas. The head-to-head battle can be tracked
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With the average age of the open water swimmer at 36, the sport of open water swimming is certainly on the older side of most aquatic sports including pool swimming, water polo, diving and synchronized swimming. Despite the age of open water demographic, the opportunities to enjoy the sport for swimmers of all ages continues
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