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Christopher Bojanowski announced the 3.5K 2 milles de Tracadie-Sheila swim in New Brunswick, Canada on July 25th. Freestylers, butterflyers, backstrokers and breaststrokers are all invited. Copyright © 2010 by Steven Munatones
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NYC Swim hosted one of its truly unique events – the 1.2K Liberty Island Swim, a complete circumnavigation around the Statue of Liberty in New York City. Bruce Brockschmidt won the event in 14:26. Next year’s event will be held in the evening so the swimmers can swim with the sun setting around the Statue.
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Tomorrow is a dual state championship – with the best swimmers from the state of Ohio and the neighboring state of Kentucky where 419 athletes from both states are participating in this mid-week championship. In addition to the swimmers, a number of officials from both states have passed the Open Water Officials test and will
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When dolphins participate in an open water swim, this is what it looks like: Brought to our attention by English Channel and Manhattan Island swimmer Rob Kent of the Lake Ontario Swim Team. Copyright © 2010 by World Open Water Swimming Association
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In addition to superstar swimmers Thomas Lurz and Keri-Anne Payne and all their elite competitors, supermodel Jodie Kidd and British TV celebrity Vernon Kay will take part in the Great London Swim on July 3rd. In a break from open water swimming’s traditionalist past, the televised Great London Swim, a mile swim in the heart
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Dennis Miller, President of the Oceania Swimming Association and FINA Bureau Member responsible for open water swimming, took the promotion of the 2010 Oceania Swimming Championships to a whole different level by arranging for four days of television coverage of the races in Samoa. “I would like to thank the Australian Olympic Committee, Australian Sports
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In the 36K FINA Open Water Swimming Grand Prix in Capri-Napoli (Maratona del Golfo Capri-Napoli), 20 swimmers (12 men and 8 women) from nine countries took to the water where pre-race favorite and long-time marathon veteran Damian Blaum of Argentina demonstrated his dominance winning easily by nearly four minutes. Damian finished in 6 hours 58
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A record number of athletes – 74 in total (39 men and 25 women) – competed in the FINA 10km Marathon Swimming World Cup race in Setubal Bay, Portugal this past Saturday where FINA President Dr. Julio Maglione started the five-loop 2K diamond-shaped course. As is typical, both the men and women swam hard for
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A week after swimming her third Pennock Island Challenge in Alaska, Claudia Rose of the La Jolla Cove Swim Club and a Team Aquaphor member, became the first person to swim across the Sitka Sound from Kruzof Island to Halibut Point in Alaska. She took 4 hours and 36 minutes to cross the Sound in
Open water swimmers may swim at sea level in Singapore – or 55 stories above at the newly opened Marina Bay Sands Resort in Singapore. At 150 meters in length, the infinity pool is also a good bet for a good open water swimming workout. The world’s most expensive hotel, reportedly £4 billion, has rooms
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