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The International Swimming Hall of Fame announced on its website that the Hall of Fame and USA Swimming will organize a 10K race in Fort Lauderdale on May 7th as part of the 47th International Swimming Hall of Fame celebration. The professional 10K race will be a memorial to Fran Crippen and will attract a […]
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A 1K swim for the Canterbury Earthquake Appeal on February 26th at the Milford Beach Reserve in Auckland is being quickly organized. 100% of the cash donations will be sent to the Canterbury Earthquake Appeal in light of the recent tragedy in Christchurch, New Zealand. Scott Rice of Quantum Events publicly thanked Simon Bucherer and
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From left to right, Ram Barkai, Toks Viviers, Ryan Stramrood and Kieron Palframan are shown swimming past Cape Horn, the sailor’s graveyard, at the southernmost tip of South America. The South African swimmers, including fifth teammate Andrew Chin, gave a first-person account of their unprecedented swim here. “…as we approached the Cape early in the
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The number of open water swimming websites providing valuable information in a visual dynamic manner continues to exponentially increase. Day-by-day, creative and Internet-savvy individuals are creating wonderful online publications, blogs, groups and websites with commercial and non-profit purposes. Most of these websites now have online social networking opportunities and keep visitors up-to-date with Facebook messages,
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Scott Rice of the State New Zealand Ocean Swim Series announced the cancellation of the State Corsair Classic due to the tragic circumstances of the Christchurch earthquake in New Zealand. “The City is in a state of emergency for the next five days.” “This is not the time to
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Dr. Lucky Meisenheimer wrote and produced this fun piece on Lake Cane in Orlando, Florida which is quite the gathering hole for many swimmers over the years. The short film can be seen here. It is undoubtable that Dr. Meisenheimer actively uses his vivacious imagination during his daily open water swims in order to utilize
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Yuko Matsuzaki became the first inductee from Japan in the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame when she was voted in the Class of 2010/2011. Born in Tokyo, Yuko has been training in Florida throughout her marathon swimming career. As the daughter of a long-time mariner and head of the Japanese Coast Guard, Yuko has
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The Daily News of Open Water Swimming had the wonderful opportunity to spend the day with Dale Petranech, currently the Honorary Secretary of the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame and formerly of the FINA Technical Open Water Swimming Committee. The renaissance that open water swimming is enjoying is
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Mat Luebbers of About.com Swimming Guide is conducting the 2011 About Swimming Readers’ Choice Awards. Mat explains, “Voting is open until March 8th for the 2011 About Swimming Readers’ Choice Awards for swimming blog and/or swimming twitter feed. There’s no prize – just the bragging rights that come with getting recognized by the readers of
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Ram Barkai, Toks Viviers, Kieron Palframan, Ryan Stramrood and Andrew Chin became the first swimmers to traverse around Cape Horn at the tip of South America today. Five South Africans from Cape Town faced uncertain and dangerous conditions and were punished by strong currents and rough seas. But with
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