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Miyuki Fujita, the Japanese Queen of the English Channel (7 successful crossings), added another marathon swim to her illustrious career. She completed the first three-way crossing of Suruga Bay, south of Tokyo and within view of Mount Fuji. The deep Suruga Bay, with its tidal flows, is well-known in Japan and was captured in woodblock […]
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Other than the world championship 10K race, is there a more competitive race than the RCP Tiburon Mile? We think not. To determine the world’s best distance freestyler, the RCP Tiburon Mile is the perfect compromise for the elites in the pool swimming world and the open water swimming world. On one hand, the distance
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As usual over the past 11 versions of the RCP Tiburon Mile, there are world champions and Olympians vying for the winner-take-all first cash prize of US$10,000. But two-time winner Chloe Sutton is on completely different career path in the 2010 race to be held this Sunday in San Francisco Bay. In the past two
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The English Channel has its Half Century Club, an exclusive group of individuals who have successfully crossed the English Channel past their 50th birthday. The Strait of Gibraltar, the Catalina Channel and the Molokai Channel all have their own Half Century Clubs. In the Southern Hemisphere, the 16-mile, cold-water Cook Strait also has its own
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The English Channel has its Half Century Club, a group of swimmers who have successfully crossed the English Channel past their 50th birthday. The Cook Strait, the Molokai Channel and the Catalina Channel also have their own Half Century Clubs. The Strait of Gibraltar’s Half Century Club includes 32 swimmers who have found the Fountain
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The English Channel has its Half Century Club, an exclusive group of bold and young-minded individuals who have successfully crossed the English Channel past their 50th birthday. The Strait of Gibraltar also has its own Half Century Club as does the Catalina Channel and the Cook Strait. In the middle of the Pacific Ocean, the
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The English Channel has its Half Century Club, an exclusive group of individuals who have successfully crossed the English Channel past their 50th birthday. The Strait of Gibraltar also has its own Half Century Club as does the Cook Strait and Molokai Channel. In the Pacific Ocean, the Catalina Channel has its own Half Century
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The Ederle Swim, started in 1925, is along a 17.5-mile (28K) course from New Jersey to New York. It is always a tough swim with 7 out of 11 swimmers finishing in 2007, 1 out of 13 swimmers finishing in 2008 and 3 out of 13 finishing in 2009. 2010 looks to be another tough
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Ron Levy took this photo of Daniel Slosberg on his 19 hour 32 minute two-way Catalina Channel crossing in 1978. “The photo shows me and one of my paddlers nearing the end of the Catalina double in the summer of 1978,” recalled Daniel. “It wasn’t until about this point
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Besides the Olympian vs. Olympian vs. world champion race that will highlight the Distance Swim Challenge in Santa Monica, California, the personable and ever-energetic Eney Jones will come down from her Rocky Mountain retreat to compete in the 12.6-mile ocean swim. Eney is a former top swimmer at the University of Florida, a 20-time finalist
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