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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The Amateur Swimming Association of Trinidad & Tobago announced that the annual Maracas Open Water Classic, one of the world’s top 100 open water swims, will be televised on TV6 this Friday morning. The program starts at 6:00 am with the swimming to be featured around 7:30 am. Copyright […]
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Halfway through the FINA 10KM Marathon Swimming World Cup season with races in Santos (Brazil), Viedma (Argentina), Setubal (Portugal), Lac St-Jean (Canada) completed and four more races to go in Shantou (China), Hong Kong, Cancun (Mexico) and Sharjah (United Arab Emirates), Ana Marcela Cunha of Brazil is leading in the point rankings. Can the young
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Halfway through the FINA 10KM Marathon Swimming World Cup season with races in Santos (Brazil), Viedma (Argentina), Setubal (Portugal), Lac St-Jean (Canada) completed and four more races to go in Shantou (China), Hong Kong, Cancun (Mexico) and Sharjah (United Arab Emirates), Chad Ho of South Africa is leading in the point ranking. Can the young
Jessica Roux, who has been winning a slew of races in her native South Africa, continued her winning ways in the 5K race at the 10th Senior African Swimming Championships in Casablanca, Morocco. Jessica finished in 45:02 over Morocco’s Sara el Bekri (46:28) and Algeria’s Malya Mgehezzi Bakhouche (46:30). On the men’s side, Egypt’s Hadeil
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Similar to the 2008 Beijing Olympics*, FINA (Fédération Internationale de Natation) sets the qualification standards for athletes to qualify for the Olympic 10K Marathon Swim which will be in the Serpentine in Hyde Park at the 2012 London Olympics. The qualification procedures from the 2008 Beijing Olympics will stay the same for the 2012 London
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Comcast SportsNet interviewed the male swimmers of the Night Train Swimmers about their upcoming charity swim relay that begins on Friday (see here). The six-person tea will attempt to swim 108 miles in Lake Powell in the state of Arizona. The arial map on left shows the 28-mile distance from A to B and the
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The United States Master Swimming annually presents its Coach of the Year Award at the United States Aquatic Sports Convention. We noticed many of the recipients of the Award are closely related to open water swimming, one indication of the tremendous growth and importance of open water swimming to competitive and fitness adult swimmers. The
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How many people have swum more than a single-crossing in one of the Oceans Seven? Not many. A two-way crossing is looking for double trouble. But there are those who attempt it – and do it. To date, there have been only seven people who have successfully completed a double-crossing of the Catalina Channel: 1.
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On August 9th, Zhang Jian from China, a professor at the Beijing Sports University, set another marathon swimming record by swimming an unprecedented 50K across the Xing Kai Lake in Heilongjiang Province. He took 36:30 to swim across the lake in a wetsuit. An English-language news report is here. Zhang’s career has been remarkable and
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. From one perspective, Philippe Croizon is average. News reports from around the world heralded his swim across the English Channel when he finished in 13:30, almost exactly the average time based on the thousands of successful swims done since 1875. But from another perspective, the 42-year-old Frenchman is anything
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