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Douglas Miller of Fiji holds the world record for the 18K Fiji Swims event from the Sofitel Fiji Resort & Spa to Beachcomber Island in 4 hours and 56 minutes. This year, swimmers from Australia, New Zealand, USA, England, Singapore and Malaysia are flying to tropical Fiji to join locals to try and break Douglas’ […]
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Dan The Man On A Mission, Flying Through Storms Photos courtesy of Steve Kravetz, Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. Dan Projansky finished the 8-mile Swim 4 Freedom in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin in 8 hours 20 minutes, doing all butterfly. “I did it to raise money for the Special Operations Warrior Foundation, but the conditions were awful. There
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After Greece won the 5K Team Pursuit race at the European Swimming Championships in Hungary and Olympic medalists like Larisa Ilchenko and David Davies finished out of the money – something previously unthinkable – the surprises and upheaval in the elite echelon of open water swimming continued. Olga Beresnyeva of Ukraine unexpectedly won the 25K
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Joanie Guillemette-Simard, a 24-year-old marathon swimmer from Canada, had to face something that few other marathon swimmers experience before their swim. She was injured, including broken fingers, lacerations and blood-swelled eyes, when she hit a moose while driving in Quebec and was fortunately saved from further injury. Moose can weigh as much as 1,000 pounds
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Greece won gold in the 5K Team Pursuit race at the European Swimming Championships in Hungary last Friday. Olympian Spyridon Gianniotis, Antonios Fokaidis and Kalliopi Araouzou comfortably won with a time of 59 minutes and 3 seconds. In a tight finish for the silver medal, Italy (Simone Ercoli, Simone Ruffini and Rachele Bruni) came second
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The trio of three-way English Channel swimmers of Jon Erikson, Alison Streeter and Philip Rush are legendary in the marathon swimming world. John Van Wisse attempted to join the elite echelon of three-way swimmers, but fell frustratingly short despite an excellent two-way channel crossing in 19 hours and 55 minutes. According to the Herald Sun,
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Last month, Thie Convery swam 18.6K across Lake Erie from New York, to Ontario in 7 hours and 20 minutes. “I wasn’t bothered by the distance. But the southwest waves, peaking at 1.5 meters, slowed my pace, disrupted my freestyle stroke and wreaked havoc on my head and stomach,” said Thie to the Dundas Star
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During the first hour at the Traversee Internationale du Lac Memphremagog, Petar Stoychev of Bulgaria was busy – real busy. Because of the relatively slumbering pace from the beginning, the men’s and women’s field were bunched together in a tight pack. Bumping and swimming in close quarters was not what Petar had in mind so
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Chloe Sutton led a group of cross-over swimmers (open water + pool) in the pool at the recent USA Swimming National Championships in the 800-meter freestyle. Chloe won the event in 8:24.77 only behind Great Britain’s Olympic gold medalist Rebecca Adlington (8:21.15) by a few seconds. World 25K championship fourth-place swimmer Haley Anderson was third
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Valerio Cleri of Italy won the 25K at the European Swimming Championships yesterday in 5 hours and 16 minutes, 16 seconds faster than silver medalist Bertrand Venturi of France. Other European champions this year included Thomas Lurz of Germany in the 10K and Luca Ferretti of Italy in the 5K as well as the Greek
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