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World Open Water Swimming Federation, a human-powered project
Michael Marais and Jessica Roux ended the 2009-2010 season as the top swimmers in the Eastern Province Open Water Swim Series held at Marina Martinique, Jeffreys Bay in South Africa. The Eastern Province Open Water Swim Series, sanctioned by Swim South Africa, offered distances from 1K to 10K in the six-event series. Michael won the […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. This is a really difficult question: What is harder? The 66-mile triple crossing of Lake Tahoe – high in the Sierra Nevada mountains – by Jamie Patrick or the 72-mile crossing of Kaieiewaho Channel between Oahu and Kauai – out in the middle of the Pacific Ocean – by
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We always advocate thinking during pool workouts for competitive open water swimmers. The mental aspect of competitive open water swimming cannot be downplayed. Not only do you have to think about the elements – winds, waves, currents – but you also have to think about feeding, pacing, positioning and drafting relative to your competition. The
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Dozens of young, proven pool swimming stars from across America are invited to the 2010 USA Swimming National Open Water Select Camp in Long Beach, California. They will be instructed on the finer points of open water swimming and then thrown in with their more experienced competitors at the 2010 USA Swimming National Open Water
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Year in and year out, the USA Swimming National Open Water Swimming Select Camp takes some of America’s best long-distance pool swimmers and helps turn them into open water swimming stars. Chloe Sutton, Andrew Gemmell, Chip Peterson and Eva Fabian are all examples of select team campers who later emerged as world championship or FINA
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Michael Zoetmulder, founder of the 2K Ocean Racing Series World Championships, the Nelson Mandela Bay Bell Buoy Challenge and the King of Nelson Mandela Bay events in South Africa, is bringing in some major male and female open water swimming firepower to his three new events – all with a creative twist and prize money.
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The Midmar Mile, South Africa’s largest open water swim as well as the world’s, was officially granted recognition by the Guinness Book of World Records for having 13,755 finishers to its 2009 race. As authorized by the Guinness Book, the official number of finishers of a timed, competitive race is the authorized number for world
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[vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1628105602436{padding-top: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text]There are no replays or do-overs in marathon swimming. All rule infractions and penalties are in the eyes of the beholders – who are, in the case of the Olympic 10K Marathon Swim and other major international competitions, in boats cruising alongside the swimmers. If the swimmers commit a rule
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Sarah Wassner Flynn wrote a flattering article in Competitor Magazine about the NYC Pro Swim. In the article titled, Jumping Right In, Sarah talks about the only FINA World Cup race in America that featured 42 elite swimmers racing four loops in New York Harbor right across the the Statue of Liberty and Manhattan Island.
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