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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Vito Bialla announced another intrepid swim only a few weeks after wisely pulling his team 63.8 nautical miles (118K) from the start in the jellyfish-strewn waters of the Sea of Cortez Swim in Mexico. “Our team of Night Train Swimmers expects to take 10-14 hours depending on weather conditions, […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The annual Manhattan Island Marathon Swim is this Saturday, starting at 7:25 am near Wall Street. With the water temperature around 65°F (ranging from 17-19°C), the athletes will surface chop, substantial tidal flows and boat traffic for the entire 8-9 hour event. Besides the relay swimmers, this year’s event
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Chloe Sutton showed her superior strength and speed on the backstretch of the last loop at the USA Swimming National 10K Open Water Swimming Championships in Long Beach, California when she zoomed into the lead with ease. See The Athlete Village video below. After a fast pace throughout the race (1st 2K loop: 23:49, 2nd
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Hannah Smith, a 21-year-old fourth-year medical student from Glasgow, Scotland, is aiming to become the fastest person to swim across the Little Minch (formerly known as Scotland’s fjord). “I decided that this was the perfect year to attempt what has been a longstanding dream of mine: to swim across the Minch.” “It is 15 miles
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The 2010 USA Swimming National Open Water Swimming Championship photos are posted here. The Long Beach Press Telegram provided greatly appreciated articles before and after the event with front-page coverage. Race results are as follows: Men’s 10K, Women’s 10K, Men’s 5K, Women’s 5K, Solo 2K Open Water Pursuit, Trio Team 2K Open Water Pursuit, Quad
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Coaches Matt Mitchell and Hank Wise of Beach Swim Club Masters give open water-specific workouts that are great for swimmers and triathletes. For example, for the upcoming Huntington Beach Pier Swim, Matt and Hank know that specific pool workouts will give their athletes an advantage. “When you come back into the surf, your heart is
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Back in 2008 in her first major international open water championship in Seville, Spain, Christine Jennings was sandwiched between world champions Melissa Gorman, Poliana Okimoto and Angela Maurer – and learned a lesson on how rough and strategic the sport of open water swimming can be. But step-by-step since the world’s best crashed into her,
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18-year-old Deni Cullom of the Mission Viejo Nadadores navigated through a flotilla of nine men over the last 1K of the USA Swimming National 5K Open Water Swimming Championships in Long Beach, California to upset a star-studded field of the best American open water swimmers. From the start when 66 men started shoulder-to-shoulder and sprinted
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Last night, as part of the Global Open Water Swimming Conference in Long Beach, California, the World Open Water Swimming Association gave out three Lifetime Achievement Awards to Greta Andersen, Siga Rose and Dan Empfield for their body of outstanding work in the open water as an athlete, visionary and coach respectively. All words fail
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Dan Albano of the Orange County Register wrote an article on American Chloe Sutton‘s victory at the USA Swimming National 10K Open Water Swimming Championships on Friday. Her victory that now legitimately places Chloe on top of the American long-distance freestyle worlds in both the pool and open water. She now potentially has a summer
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