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World Open Water Swimming Federation, a human-powered project
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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Jose Diaz of Nadandolibre interviewed International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame honor swimmer David Meca in Spanish here. David not only was he a fast solo swimmer with the eighth fastest English Channel swim of all-time (7 hours and 22 minutes), but he also won two world swimming championships (2000 and 2005) and was creative
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Freestyle is not the only way to go in the open water. Julia Bradshaw swam butterfly across the English Channel in 14 hours and 18 minutes. Tina Neil swam backstroke across the Catalina Channel and the English Channel (13:22). Fredrik Jacques swam breaststroke across the English Channel in 13 hours and 31 minutes. From Chicago
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Jim Boucher provided the support for 63-year-old Ellery McGowan in the 26.4K 23rd International Self-Transcendence Marathon Swim in Lake Zurich, Switzerland last week. “She finished third in the over-40 non-wetsuit category with an epic swim in non-standard conditions for swimmers from 12 countries on four continents.” “Far from the sunny day we have all come
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Many Olympic pool swimming heroes and heroines, ranging from Shane Gould and Sandy Neilson-Bell to Brendan Hansen and Jim Montgomery, eventually find their way to the open water. As masters athletes are returning their way home after the 13th FINA Masters World Championships in Sweden, FINA interviewed Jim who turned from a world-record-holding Olympic gold
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English Channel is known the world over. The Catalina Channel, the Strait of Gibraltar and the Cook Strait are also quite popular in the marathon swimming world. But Rob Kent of the Lake Ontario Swim Team is doing his best to promote and maintain the tradition of swimming across Lake Ontario – whose history is
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If you ever were frustrated around the turn buoys or start of a large open water swim or triathlon, think of this pool in Tokyo… Copyright © 2010 by Steven Munatones
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Amy Bolger put together an outstanding photo gallery of the 6th annual Governors Island Swim here. Cedric Cheung-Lau (below) won the 2-mile race in 37:32:00 over James Bedell Jr. (38:46:09) and Nathaniel Dean (39:50:02). One innovative thing NYC Swim and Swim Free did was to have a number of ‘Swim Angels‘ wearing different colored caps
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Swimming World Magazine described Olympic open water swimmer Chloe Sutton in a very positive light after she won the USA Swimming national 800-meter freestyle championship. “The transformation of Mission Viejo’s Chloe Sutton into a legitimate two-sport star in the U.S. is complete. Not only did she qualify to represent the U.S. in the open water
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