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Pierpaolo Manzetti announced that the top Italians and an international field of stars will participate in the June 25th International Swimming 10K Marathon Castel Gandolfo in Rome. World 10K and 25K champion Valerio Cleri as well as world championship medalists Giorgia Consiglio and Martina Grimaldi, and Federica Vitale will represent their country and race for […]
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Around the lochs, docks and sea shores around the world, we hear that professional marathon swimmers are not doing ‘real open water swimming’ because they swim in packs or because they swim in loop courses or because they are not swimming in sub-50°F (10°C) water or because they are not facing Force 4, 5 or
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The Night Train Swimmers are heading off in the reverse direction – or at least in a completely different direction to achieve their goal of swimming between the California coast and the Farallons Island. Contrary to Stewart Evans and Ted Erikson, the only people to have successfully swum between those two points, the six Night
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Martin Strel has made a splash in Europe, in South America and in Asia over the course of his long career. And now he has returned to America where he once swam the length of the Mississippi – and is now taking on the other great American river – the Colorado. His son Borut announced,
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This September, Sir Richard Branson, the legendary founder of the Virgin Group and intrepid adventurer, and singer-songwriter Ronan Keating of Boyzone fame will headline a ten-member relay team. They will swim 56 miles across the Irish Sea in the hopes of raising at least £1million for Cancer Research UK. The Swim is a celebrity-led challenge
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. It is rare that swimmers are celebrated in such an august setting, but two awards ceremonies will be held at the United Nations on June 19th. As part of the Global Open Water Swimming Conference in New York City between June 17th – 19th, the International Marathon Swimming Hall
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Ireland’s Steve Redmond has successfully swum the English channel (in 20 hours 10 minutes) and the North Channel (17:17) and just completed the Strait of Gibraltar in 5:01 this past weekend. With three of the four Oceans Seven swims under his belt, he has certainly established a name for himself among the elite endurance swimmers.
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12 Ways To Beat The Night Train Swimmers Courtesy of WOWSA, Lake Windermere, England. Six people are taking to England’s largest lake, Lake Windermere, in a 12-way attempt to beat the Night Train Swimmers world record for a non-stop lake open water swimming record (108 nautical miles or 200 km). It will be a relay
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As the weather starts to warm in Northern Hemisphere, many open water swimmers near coastlines, lake shores and river banks are finding this to be the time to get out of the pool and into the open water. If you’re going to be doing races where waves are a variable, try practicing your finishes by
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