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Two veteran, highly trained marathon swimmers proved why completing a channel swim is always a tough, risk-taking adventure where nothing is a given despite the best well-laid plans and years of focused training. Anne Cleveland started off confidently and calming stroking along before sunset last night in the Catalina Channel in 16°C (61-62°F) waters and […]
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After learning her wish to swim in San Francisco Bay from Alcatraz Island, Chris ‘El Sharko’ Blakesle and his fellow open water swimmers from the South End Rowing Club offered the airfare and travel accommodations for the amazing Jackie Cobell to visit her fellow marathon swimmers in California and participate in the September 18th Alcatraz
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The RCP Tiburon Milers won the Trans Tahoe Relay in 3 hours and 18 minutes over 159 teams of competitively and recreationally-minded masters swimmers. Swimming at high altitude in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, the 11.5-mile course took the teams across Lake Tahoe in its cool, blue waters from the
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Assistant Producer Milly Fraser is currently searching for new competitors for the British Broadcasting Company’s Saturday night show Total Wipeout. According to Milly, Total Wipeout is a tough and demanding course that requires a high level of fitness to win the £10,000 prize. Strong swimmers typically perform well. Total Wipeout looks for contestants from a
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The Voice of Russia reported that 25 swimmers from Russia and China started on a 1,300 km marathon relay along the Amur River, the world’s ninth longest river that represents the border between the Russian Far East and northeastern China, to the Tatar Strait, a strait in the Pacific Ocean dividing the Russian island of
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The 2010 Maui Channel Swim – a 9.6-mile inter-island relay between Maui and Lanai – is going to be a tremendously competitive race with the world’s fastest open water swimmers gathering in the tropical paradise. Race director Ian Emberson has never seen so many of the sport’s greatest heroes and heroines gather in the Maui
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Tom Allen came back from the 2010 World Open Water Swimming Championships in Canada to the European Junior Open Water Swimming Championships in Hoorn, the Netherlands very well-prepared. It showed. He and Emma Graham both comfortably took the 5K European Junior titles. Copyright © 2010 by Open Water Source
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On July 30th, Marcos Diaz continued his journey from continent to continent as he crossed the Strait of Gibraltar from Spain to Morocco in 2 hours and 43 minutes in a wetsuit. “We wanted to swim from Morocco to Spain, but there were swimmers scheduled ahead of us and because of the good weather, our
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Australian John Van Wisse will be attempting a triple crossing of the English Channel soon, depending on the weather, as he tries to follow in the footsteps of the legendary Jon Erikson, Alison Streeter and Philip Rush. Piloted by International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame pilot Michael Oram, everything has got to go right physiologically,
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Another OWSA joined the global open water swimming community with the inaugural Central Illinois Open Water Swim (CIOWS) held this week. The 1.2- and 2.4-mile races in Hudson’s Evergreen Lake are an excellent opportunity for swimmers in central and downstate Illinois, as well as for swimmers and triathletes in Indiana, Kentucky, and across the Mississippi.
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