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In support of the Mexican American Unity Swim in Lake Powell, Arizona, Craig Baskin created painting entitled H2O Unity. “I created the painting to help raise funds and awareness for all organizations affiliated with the non-stop three-day six-person distance swimming record attempt,” said contemporary artist Craig who donates 100% of the proceeds to the Wounded […]
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Diana Nyad has her permission from the Cuban and United States governments to start her 103-mile (165K) Extreme Dream swim. She has done the training, including a 24-hour non-stop swim in the Caribbean Sea, and has organized the largest flotilla of support crews to escort and protect her across the wide expanse of sea affected
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17 swimmers from India and host Bengal will participate in the world’s longest amateur race, the 81K National Open Water Swimming competition down the Bhagirathi river in West Bengal, India on September 5th. Organzed by the Murshidabad Swimming Association, one of its purposes is to help launch future marathon swimmers around the world. “This gives
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Michael Zoetmulder, founder of the World Ocean Racing Championships, reported on the Redhouse River Mile, Africa’s oldest open water swimming event. The event is held on the Swartkops River at the picturesque village of Redhouse, some 10K outside of Port Elizabeth in South Africa. The inaugural race with 48 swimmers was held in the river
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The Kalamata-Koroni Long Distance Swimming Marathon is one of the world’s greatest open water swims. The Kalamata-Koroni Marathon is held annually in September across the Messiniakos Gulf in Greece, 30K (16.5 nautical miles) from Kalamata to Koroni. While Mohamend Maarouf of Egypt (6:33) and Mouala Homa (7:00) from Syria are the respective male and female
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39-year-old Clark Bird of Merced, California completed the length of Lake Tahoe last week under the most unusual and difficult of conditions – against the wind and at night 13 hours and 23 minutes at high altitude. Throughout the history of Lake Tahoe crossings, only Tom Linthicum in 2009 did so in the same north-to-south
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SwimNetwork captured Chip Peterson’s final sprint and tremendous spurt of energy near the finish at the 2010 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships 10K here in Marine Stadium in Long Beach, California. After patience and a great sense of timing, Chip went to his 8-beat kick around 150 meters from the finish. Copyright © 2010 by World
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University of Minnesota grad Christine Jennings‘s sprint to the finish is shown on SwimNetwork here. After the last turn buoy, you can see how Christine moved first to the left, then to the right and then back left again as she held off Eva Fabian (2nd), Emily Brunemann (3rd) and Haley Anderson (4th) in the
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Before the 1.5K and 3K Acapulco Grand Prix at the Central American and Caribbean Aquatic Sports Convention (Convención Centroamericana Y Del Caribe De Las Especialidades Acuáticas) in Mexico, Laura Vidales announced the Brazadas Por La Vida project where, among other projects, Javier Gutierrez will attempt to break his 8 hour 16 minute time across the
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Marcos Díaz successfully completed his last leg of his Swim Across The Continents across the Bering Strait first made famous by the incomparable Lynne Cox. Since May 2010, Dominican Republic’s Marcos has engaged an innovative and ambitious project called the ‘Swim Across The Continents‘. On behalf of the United Nations for the Millennium Development Goals,
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