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Young Harry Stephenson from Florida won the 10K Little Red Lighthouse Swim in New York City in blazing fast time of 1:17:50, benefitting from a powerful current down the Hudson River. But Harry needed all the speed he could muster up with a much of experienced masters swimmers chasing after him, including the second-place finisher […]
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On October 9 in Austin, Texas, swimmers from all over will try to wrestle the 12-mile Lake Travis Relay record from Ace & His D.A.M. Friends (Dallas Aquatics Masters), set in 2008 in 3:50:24.99. But everyone will have to set up to beat the remarkable solo record, also set in 2008, by Chris Derks in
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In trying to research the formal name of the Catalina Channel, the waterway between Santa Catalina Island and the Southern California mainland, The Daily News of Open Water Swimming was reminded of the Island of the Blue Dolphins, a story about a remarkably courageous woman who lived alone for 18 years on San Nicolas Island,
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The 5K American Swimming Association Open Water Swimming Collegiate National Championships are coming this weekend on October 2 in the Mansfield Dam Park in Lake Travis outsid of Austin, Texas. College students around the United States will take a shot at the existing 5K records held by Brittany Massengale of Rice University (55:09.3) and Matt
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Lt. Colonel Nejib Belhedi of Tunisia, the visionary behind the Dialog Across the Seas, is a man who is building a bright future for the next generation of marathon swimmers and channel swimmers of the Maghreb countries of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Mauritania and the Western Sahara. Besides being the first person to swim 20K
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There are two International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame permanent trophies on display at the International Swimming Hall of Fame in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida: the SEA GODDESS and the Davids/Wheeler Silver Tray Award. The SEA GODDESS lists the names and year of induction of all the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame honorees on series
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Two-time Olympic swimmer Patricia Kohlmann was the anchor swimmer for the Mexican American Unity Swim, a 108 nautical mile (200K) non-stop relay swim in Lake Powell that sits on the border of the states of Arizona and Utah near the north rim of the Grand Canyon. The 6-person team finished in 55 hours 20 minutes
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More than 450 delegates from 202 national federatins are gathering this week at the 1st FINA World Aquatics Convention in Punta del Este, Uruguay. During the three-day convention, the delegates are coming together under the motto ‘Together we can make Aquatics bigger’ with the purpose to network and to build-up future partnership and business opportunities.
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Chris Guesdon, a board member of the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame brought this remarkable event from the history of marathon swimming: the Mediterranean International Swimming Relay Race, a 93 km Malta-to-Sicily competition. Chris recalls, “The race was held from Malta to Sicily on the July 19th and 20th 1996 with a 3 pm
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After combing through 50 years of history, Nino Fazio in Sicily, Italy submitted the following open water swimming records that were set in the Strait of Messina in Sicily, Italy. Along with many other open water swimming records around the world, the records are maintained by the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame and archived
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