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LiveSwim.net will bring online coverage of the Waikiki Roughwater Swim on September 6th. It will be the first time in the history of the Waikiki Roughwater Swim that highlight clips from the race across Waikiki Beach will be posted online. Chris Lundie, founder of LiveSwim.net, said, “This truly a new and exciting experience for us […]
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Western Australia is offering a six-part Open Water Swimming Series with standard distances that runs from October to January across Perth’s metropolitan beaches. The first race is at Rockingham Beach (1.25K, 2.5K and 5K) on October 31st. The second race is at Mullaloo Beach (1.25K, 2.5K and 5K) on November 13th. The third race is
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Scott Rice of the New Zealand Ocean Swim Series announced the dates of the 2010-2011 races. The extremely popular, six-part summer series will kickoff in November with the State New Zealand Ocean Swim Series: 2.8K Harbour Crossing on November 21st 2010 and will head to a variety of locations where athletes will encounter a variety
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Most recently, there have been several wetsuit-clad marathon swims of note from the Bering Strait to northern California. In the Old School, where the rules of the English Channel and British Long Distance Swimming Association have played such an influential and important role since 1926, these swims would not be certified, ratified or authorized. Old
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The Daily News of Open Water Swimming often receives emails expressing various viewpoints on the sport of open water swimming. One such recent letter to the editor was related to the use of wetsuits, a timely topic given the fact that there have been several well-publicized marathon swims done with wetsuits recently. The writer-swimmer asked
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Captain Tim Johnson provided the background information for the September 10th record-breaking attempt. Mark Warkentin (shown on left above), Petar Stoychev (shown on right above), Rondi Davies and Tobey-Anne Saracino will be setting off on September 10th on a record attempt. 95 years previously the first authenticated circumnavigation of
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Ram Barkai posted a photo gallery of the International Ice Swimming Association’s Speedo Ice Swim Africa in Fraserburg, South Africa here: Copyright © 2010 by Open Water Source
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When triathletes take to the open water, Oakley catches them in action below. After watching the tongue-in-cheek open water training here, watch them race here where the triathlete describes the open water swim as “…that was hard core, suddenly your down and…your goggles are off…” Copyright © 2010 by Steven Munatones
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The global marathon swimming community was abuzz today as Stephen Redmond of Ireland made steady progress across the North (Irish) Channel. His steady pace was tracked online as people from around the world cheered him on to an unofficial finish time of 17 hours and 20 minutes. Considered to be the hardest of the major
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American Tristin Baxter and Australian George O’Brian both won the Junior Pan Pacific Championship 10K race off the shores of Maui, Hawaii. The event was the younger version of the Pan Pacific Swimming Championships where swimmers ages 18 and younger from the USA, Canada, Australia, Mexico and Japan competed. Tristin finished in 1:58:42, well ahead
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