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Heidi George, ranked sixth in the 2009 FINA World Cup series, has been added to the King and Queen of the Sea Light Circuit and Challenge in Rio de Janeiro this weekend. Heidi has race all over the world, so adding another city and race to her resume seems natural. She has been to Abu […]
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46-year-old American Nathaniel Waring of Tampa, Florida set a world record by swimming the 10.7 miles (17.2K) from Tahiti to Moorea on May 1st, 2010. Nathaniel, recently retired from the travel industry, swam from Punaauia Pass on Tahiti’s West Coast to Vaiare Pass, on Moorea, Tahiti’s sister island. The well-traveled Stanford graduate, founder of Cox
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Ted Erikson and Greta Andersen, both 83 years old, were fierce marathon swimming rivals in the early 1960s. They both set English Channel records and they both set records in the Pacific Ocean: Greta did the first double-crossing of the Catalina Channel in 1958 and Ted did swam the Farallones Islands to the Golden Gate
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The Tynedale Sports Council in south-west Northumberland, England awarded Colin Hill, the most innovative open water race director in the world, as its 2010 Sportsman of the Year and presented him with the Hexham Courant Trophy yesterday. Sports council vice chairman Brian Tilley explained the background of the awards. “The standard of achievement was particularly
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Bob Swims, an attorney and enthusiastic volunteer who is training in Oregon, is the brainchild and passion of Bob Needham. Bob will use a step-by-step, year-by-year approach to swim the Catalina Channel in 2011, the Manhattan Island Marathon Swim in 2012, and the English Channel in 2013. Bob Swims emerges from his passion to raise
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The Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument was named a World Heritage Site by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). Papahānaumokuākea’s extensive coral reefs, of great cultural importance to Native Hawaiians, are also home to more than 7,000 species, one quarter of which are found only in the Hawaiian Archipelago. Located northwest of the
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Codie Grimsey is gearing up to follow his brother as the King of the Sea by winning another ocean sprint swim, this time in Australia’s most famous beach, Bondi. The Banana Boat Bondi to Bronte Ocean Swim is a 2.2K point-to-point course that starts at Bondi and finishes at Bronte. With the water temperature at
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Jose Diaz of Nadandolibre wrote an article about four Spanish swimmers who have successfully crossed the English Channel in recent years. Read about Jaime Caballero (shown in lower left in photo), Selina Moreno (upper left), Laura Lopez (upper right) and Miquel Suñer (lower right) here in Spanish, following in
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The 2016 Rio Olympics in Brazil proposed a schedule to FINA for the Rio de Janeiro Olympic schedule. Still subject to IOC approval, the Olympic 10K Marathon Swim for women was proposed for August 15th and on August 16th for the men. Both races will be held in Copacabana Beach. Copyright © 2010 by Open
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Organizers of the London Olympics announced the ticket prices for its celebration of athletic excellence. Ticket prices for the Olympic 10K Marathon Swim are quite reasonable relative to other sports, although spectators without seats will also be able to watch the marathon swims in the Serpentine in Hyde Park. The open water tickets are £20,
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