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Dr. Julie Bradshaw MBE On Today’s WOWSA Live Courtesy of WOWSA Live, Huntington Beach, California. 14 hours and 18 minutes of non-stop butterfly…across the English Channel. That is only one example of what Dr. Julie Bradshaw MBE has done in her lengthy marathon swimming career. Amazingly, but not surprisingly for Dr. Bradshaw, she did not […]
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Pedro Rego Monteiro organized one of the best pro races in recent history at the King and Queen of the Sea competition on Copacabana Beach – site of the 2016 Rio Olympics Olympic 10K Marathon Swim. Copyright © 2011 by Open Water Source
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The debatable, controversial and surprising answer – based on data from the RCP Tiburon Mile, Catalina Channel, Tampa Bay Marathon Swim, Little Red Lighthouse Swim and the Manhattan Island Marathon Swim – is posted at Open Water Source. Click here to look at the data and the results. Is the conclusion correct? Discuss the analysis
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Channel 4 will broadcast the British Gas Great Swim on January 23rd from 6:35 am to 7:30 am. The British Gas Great Salford Swim took place in Salford Quays – stay tuned for Britain’s biggest mass participation open water swimming series. Copyright © 2011 by Open Water Source
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The Santa Barbara Channel Swimming Association defines its sanctioned swims performed among its seven islands off the coast of California as ‘Islands’, ‘Inter-island’ and ‘Wetsuit Assisted’. The Association has “a capella” categories: Category A–1 for solo swimmers, Category A–2 for relays of 2-6 swimmers. Both are based on the English Channel crossing rules and regulations.
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Douglas Miller (1:04.38) and Tieri Erasito (1:10.49, on left) won the 5K race at the first race on the 2011 Fiji Ocean Swim Series. Based on the series and other criteria, the swimmers are working towards a selection to the Fiji Open Water Swim Team that will participate in the 2011 Pacific Games. Alisha Dickinson
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Can deep waters lead to deep thinking? Gedankenexperiment is an uncommon English words that means an experiment carried out in thought only. Gedanken means “thoughts” in German. The word was popularized by Albert Einstein, who applied gedankenexperiment to his work conceptualizing the theory of relativity. Because marathon swimming is commonly described as a mentally challenging
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With the intention to help develop future generations of open water swimmers and promote the sport, FINA will establish a new Junior World Open Water Swimming Championship event beginning in 2012. These championships will have two categories: Youth races limited to athletes 14 – 16 years old and Junior races for athletes between 17 –
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Howard Schartz and Beverly Ornstein photographed numerous Olympic and professional athletes, titled The Athlete. This reminds us of the fact that open water swimmers place themselves in a marine environment that is so unlike every other venue where Olympic and professional athletes compete. They alone strip themselves nearly bare and compete in a natural environment
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Cara Baker won the New Zealand 5K national open water championships at the Epic Swim in New Zealand’s Lake Taupo, adding to her 10K title the day before – and the 5K and 10K titles she won last year. “The performance exceeded my expectations really. I think I am a better swimmer this year and
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