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People all over the world are currently training for major channel swims and other long-distance swims all over the world. The English Channel, the Catalina Channel, the Cook Strait, Gibraltar Strait and Tsugaru Channel – and several dozens of other swims from western Australia’s 19K Rottnest Channel Swim to the 24-mile Tampa Bay Marathon Swim […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. After a slew of attempts and two successful solo swims by Stuart Evans and Ted Erikson from the Farallones Islands to the California mainland in the 1960’s, the open water swimming community generally shifted their interests from the shark-filled, cold, rough waters west of San Francisco to other venues
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World 5K champion Melissa Gorman of Australia (left in photo) demonstrated her speed outswimming New Zealand’s Brenda Russell (right) in the inaugural 2K Ocean Racing Series World Championship race at the four-day international MTN Nelson Mandela Bay Splash Festival in Port Elizabeth, South Africa on Saturday. Melissa, who recently set a Commonwealth record in the
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9-time world marathon swimming champion Petar Stoychev of Bulgaria took a roundabout course to capture his second victory in two days. Peter won the Nelson Mandela Bay Bell Buoy Challenge under cold and choppy conditions at the MTN Nelson Mandela Bay Splash Festival in Port Elizabeth, South Africa today. Petar finished the 7K out-and-back course
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Pedro Rego Monteiro and Virgilio de Castilho, two wonderfully creative entrepreneurs and endurance athletes, produce one of the world’s greatest open water swimming event, the Rei Do Mar Desafio (King of the Sea Challenge) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Watch this is a great 2-minute highlight video of the event. Copyright © 2010 by Steven
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USA Swimming announced its roster and staff for its 2010 National Open Water Select Camp to be held in Long Beach, California before its national 5K and 10K open water swimming championships. 2009 World Championship 10K bronze medalist Fran Crippen will headline the camp where 12 young men and 12 young women will be given
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On May 9th at the International Swimming Hall of Fame ceremonies, America’s Paul Asmuth (shown on left), the most dominant marathon swimmer on the professional circuit in the 1980’s with 7 World Professional Marathon Swimming Federation titles, and England’s venerable Kevin Murphy, King of the Channel with 32 crossings and more than 73 swims over
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Matt Dixon, founder of Purple Patch Fitness, will speak at the Open Water Swimming Conference in Long Beach, California on June 5th. Matt, widely acknowledged as one of the world’s leading coaches for endurance athletes, will talk about training from a metabolic standpoint for optimal race preparation. Originally a swimmer from England, Matt took his
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In Columbus, Ohio at the USA Swimming Columbus Grand Prix swim meet, part of the USA Swimming Grand Prix Series, the women’s 400-meter and 800-meter freestyle events gave a bit of an inkling of what to expect at the USA Swimming National 5K and 10K Open Water Swimming Championships that will be held in Long
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Experienced open water swimmers and newcomers tell us why they do open water. In the Out of the Box video shown below, a 90-minute DVD on open water swimming produced by USA Swimming, Micha Burden (a cover model for Competitor Magazine) tells a little something about open water swimming. She is followed by other USA