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If you have any good open water kayaking, escorting or paddling photographs, please email to The Daily News of Open Water Swimming. Please provide the name of the kayaker and swimmer and an explanation of the swim, race, venue and circumstance. Here are a few video examples of kayaking and paddling for open water swimmers. […]
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How young should – or can – athletes be to participate in open water races? It is a debatable topic that depends on the local traditions and venues. There was an interesting discussion on the Open Water Race Directors and Coaches virtual group about reasonable minimum ages allowable for open water swims. The issue was
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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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Mexico hosted the Cancún stop of the FINA 10KM Marathon Swimming World Cup today, a celebration of Mexico’s bicentennial independence. In rough conditions in the Caribbean Sea, along the sea coast, the athletes competed along four 2.5K loops. Fran Crippen won comfortably by 11 seconds with Chip Peterson barely beating Mark Warkentin by 0.3 seconds
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An engaging duo of marathon swimmers Chris Dahowski (on right) and David Hartmire (middle swimmer) of Swim 22 were both interviewed on the Simon Gowen Triathlon Radio Show. Chris talked about his Catalina Channel swim and how he nearly quit a few times and was heading to his escort boat until his kayakers cut him
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Brendan Capell, founder of the new three-part Great Australian Swim Series (in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne), was on the Simon Gowen Triathlon Radio Show. Brendan talked about his English Channel attempt, his training habits, his Olympic dreams, his new swim series, swimming with sharks, swimming in heavy surf, his 25K world championship swim and the
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A feature-length documentary on Diana Nyad‘s swim from Cuba to Florida documentary is being made. For more information on the Documenting Life Productions or to watch the trailers on the documentary, go here. Copyright © 2010 by Open Water Source
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Back in August, The Daily News of Open Water Swimming asked if If a shark approached a marathon swimmer, should the swimmer be allowed to board their boat and return to the water when safe? The poll results are in. According to the traditional rules of channel swimming and competition, no support contact of any
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After hearing about the Hellespont swim that marked the anniversary of Lord Byron’s swim, Colin Hill of Great Swims and Outdoor Swimming Society stalwart John Fenemore started to plot and plan for a 10-person swim from Sicily to Italy. “Looking at the history of the area, it sounded very exciting,” recalled Colin. This is his
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What is it about October 16th-17th in the open water swimming world? There are all kinds of incredible long-distance open water swimming events going on that weekend. These marathon races include: The OptimisSports multi-race Distance Swim Challenge, a series of 1.2-, 2.4-, 4.8- and 12.6-mile races in Santa Monica, California. A short introduction by an
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