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USA Swimming announced the men’s and women’s field for the 10K marathon swim on August 22nd at the Pan Pacific Swimming Championships in Marine Stadium, Long Beach. There were numerous surprises: 1. Olympian open water swimmer Kristel Kobrich of Chile will swim the pool events, but not the 10K. 2. Melissa Gorman, Emily Brunemann, Chloe […]
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Greg O’Connor And Elaine Kornbau Howley Set World Record Courtesy of the Boston Globe. The Boston Globe posted a video of Greg O’Connor (41) and Elaine Kornbau Howley (32) who broke the two-way crossing world record in Boston Harbor at the Boston Light Swim. The dynamic duo completed the 16-mile swim from the beach behind
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David Davies announced a change that is bound to have reverberations around the top echelon of open water swimming – especially as the top men are gearing up for the Olympic 10K Marathon Swim qualification swim in Shanghai in July 2011 and at the 2012 London Olympics. After winning a bronze in the 1500-meter freestyle
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Ashley Steeves of B&S Event Management and the Wild Fish 1 and 2 Mile Swim on August 22nd in Collins Cove in Salem Massachusetts said, “Every year, about 200 swimmers enjoy a great swim in a calm ocean water cove. Even in a hurricane, the water will be swimable. In 2004, we ran the event
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Out in the open water – especially while swimming in the middle of the Cook Strait, Molokai Channel, Catalina Channel, Rottnest Channel, Farallon Islands or anywhere in Cape Town, swimmers sometimes refer to sharks as ‘fish‘ or ‘The Man in the Gray Suit‘ There are other creative terms. Open
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Mo Siegel of Piermont, New York completed his English Channel attempt in 14 hours and 18 minutes to join the Channel’s exclusive ‘Half-Century Club‘. Adding to his resume that includes four Manhattan Island Marathon Swims, a Lake Zurich Marathon Swim (10:58) and 11 Great Chesapeake Bay Swims, he is now looking forward to the 17-mile
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The Beginner Triathlete filmed a 50-minute presentation on a variety of open water swimming topics by Steven Munatones at the 2010 Multisport World Conference and Expo in Baltimore. Watch the 50-minute presentation here. Photo of the men’s 10K at the 2003 World Swimming Championships by Dr. Jim Miller. Copyright © 2010 by Steven Munatones
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There is a growing trend to older individuals attempting and succeeding at marathon swims. 64-year-old Sue Oldham of Australia set another bar for this demographic with her 17 hour and 11 minute crossing of the English Channel this week. Sue told PerthNow, “Every hour of the swim I thought about someone special in my life,
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One of the world’s top open water swims is Brazil’s annual 3.3K Travessia dos Fortes in Rio de Janeiro. Ricardo Ratto of the Brazilian Swimming Federation reports that 2,517 swimmers lined up to do a single start in 2009. “It is always amazing to see the swimmers line up on Copacabana Beach every April. The
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American Olympian Mark Warkentin and Petar Stoychev will be chasing Shelley Taylor-Smith‘s Manhattan Island circumnavigation record of 5 hours and 45 minutes. In the 95-year history of swimming around Manhattan Island, no one – man or woman – has been able to come close to Shelley’s record – except Shelley herself who has the second
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