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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Lewis Pugh achieved the impossible. Swimming at 5300-meter altitude, staring at the summit of Mount Everest. Battling the cold, real cold at 2°C (35.6°C) in traditional channel gear – a swimsuit, goggles and a cap. Old-school style. The accounts that his team is sending from nearly on top of […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Lewis Pugh, renowned environmentalist and swimmer, lived up to his recently published book, “Achieving the Impossible. A Fearless Leader. A Fragile Earth. He successfully achieved his high-altitude goal of swimming 1 km across the glacial lake at 17,000-foot (5,300-meter) altitude under the summit of Mount Everest. The unprecedented swim
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The Swimmin’ in Moonshine in beautiful Table Rock Lake in Branson, Missouri is a fundraiser for the James River Basin Partnership to help improve the area’s lakes, rivers, streams and springs. “These funds will be earmarked for watershed festivals to teach our youth about water quality,” said race director
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The women’s Olympic 10K Marathon Swim at the 2012 London Olympics will be held on Thursday, August 9th (Day 13 of the Olympics). The men’s Olympic 10K Marathon Swim will be held the following day on Friday, August 10th (Day 14). The start times – in front of massive
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The 2K Noosa Winter Festival Blue Water Swim always has a notoriously tough field, capped at 700 swimmers. Third-place Codie Trent who was barely outsprinted at the end, said, “It was quite a tough field today going what felt like an incredibly fast pace.” But that did not stop world 5K champion Melissa Gorman from
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How many times have you been at the shoreline and encountered trash, thinking why did these people not pick up after themselves? Discarding of trash is such a simple action. As part of the upcoming World Oceans Day, Paul McCoy of Pacific Swims did something about it. He organized the World Oceans Day ‘Swim N
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Michal Skrodzki, founder of the AWF Katowice Open Water Swim Silesia near Germany and the Czech Republic, announced that the Polish Swimming Federation approved the June 26th event as the official qualifying race for the Polish team to be sent to the European Junior Open Water Swimming Championships in
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The Tri-Hampton YMCA Swim Team Swim Team in Pennsylvania is sending its top three distance swimmers to the USA Swimming National Open Water Swimming Championships in California. Dylan Ludwick, Shane McKenzie and Alex Naglich will compete in the 5K and will take on the renowned California teams – like the Mission Viejo Nadadores and the
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Casey Barrett of USA Swimming’s SwimNetwork writes colorfully and respectfully of Lynne Cox. In his column, The Toughest Swimmer in the World, Casey writes, “Lynne Cox demands a different category all together. To call her the greatest open water swimmer ever misses the point. She’s more like Magellan, the
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At the Global Open Water Swimming Conference sitting casually in the back of the room listening politely to the presentators will be mild-mannered marathon hero Philip Rush of New Zealand. Philip, never one to boast or exaggerate, is a special individual whose broad shoulders, steely determination and cheerful personality embody the sport. Philip now a
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