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Olympic 10K marathon swimmer Ky Hurst spent some time between workouts modeling European togs and beachwear for Kerri-Anne, a popular Australian television personality. Australia’s Daytime TV Queen very much enjoyed discussing Euro-togs on one of her recent shows. Copyright © 2011 by Open Water Source
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This past weekend, Evgeny Drattsev of Russia and Eva Fabian of the USA out-swam their competitors (47 from 15 countries) in the new 12K La Patagones Viedma pro marathon race. Swimming in the Negro River, the athletes had the pleasure of competing in the southernmost open water swimming race in the world. Two-time world silver
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With its northerly position on the globe, Canada is too cold much of the year for open water swimming in its lakes or along its coasts. On the other hand, Canada hosts several major open water swimming events including a FINA 10K Marathon Swimming World Cup, a FINA Grand Prix and the new World Junior
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Michael Zoetmulder is gearing up for the 87th anniversary of the Redhouse River Mile on February 27th. Africa’s oldest open water swimming event started in 1924 and only skipped the war years (1941-45) and 1971 when floods prevented the swim. 1,000 participants take to the waters each year with over R27,000 (US$3,719) in prize money
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Arena is continuing its sponsorship of the fastest open water swimming mother in the world Angela Maurer of Germany. The 35-year-old who was fourth in the 10K at the 2008 Beijing Olympics is committed to Arena through the 2012 London Olympics. In her second decade of racing against the world’s elites, she won a bronze
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Colin Hill On This Week’s WOWSA Live Courtesy of WOWSA Live, Huntington Beach, California. Colin Hill, a proven English Channel swimmer with an eclectic background as a kayaking guide and adventurer throughout the world, is one of open water swimming’s most visionary race director and head of the Great Swim Series. He explains the details
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As America settled into its sofas, couches, bars and restaurants in front of the television for its annual sporting spectacle, the Super Bowl, Dave Smith, Barbara Held (shown on left), Cindy Walsh and Kevin Anderson will swim in 55°F (13°C) water in La Jolla, California to raise money for the New York-based SwimFree, the Ovarian
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Tom Ball, one of the Ventura Deep Six swimmers, reflected on shark’s ampullae of Lorenzini in his interesting multi-syllabel style and compared them to the television character Spock from Star Trek. Copyright © 2011 by Open Water Source
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Is a new focus on open water swimming coming to the Americas? From a variety of perspectives, it appears so. Colin Hill of the Great Swim Series talks about the Perfect Storm that has served as the catalyst for explosive growth in Great Britain – and the elements are
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Colin Hill of the Great Swim Series in an upcoming interview on Open Water Wednesday described the Perfect Storm that has led to an upswelling of interest and participation in open water swimming in Great Britain. “The three Olympic 10K marathon swimming medalists [Keri-Anne Payne, Cassandra Patten and David Davies], the upcoming 2012 London Olympics,
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