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Learn From An Open Water Hall of Famer Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Sally Minty-Gravett, one of the world’s most experienced English Channel swimmers, a 2009 World Open Water Swimming Woman of the Year nominee and an inductee in the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame, is putting on a great open water swimming […]
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Swim Ireland had more open water races and more swimmers in 2009 involved than ever before. Additionally, there are many local ‘pods’ growing towards club status and Irish swimmers participated FINA open water international events with the ultimate goal of participating in the 2012 Olympic 10K Marathon Swim. Irish swimmers also set a Guinness Book
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The Pool Of Pain Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Open water swimming stars Trent Grimsey of Australia, Chad Ho of South Africa will join the world 5 km and 10 km open water swimming champion Thomas Lurz and Angela Maurer several other elite swimmers from Germany, Russia, Australia, South Africa and Canada at the
Sunday’s pro 10K King of the Sea Challenge in Brazil kicked off its festivities with a lively press conference in Rio de Janeiro. With Brazil’s top men, Filipe Farias, Fabio Lima, Glauco Rangel and Luis Lima, sharing the King of the Sea podium with their foreign competitors, the men talked about the new 10K race
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The 5K Acapulco International 2010 Swim website was announced yesterday. For more information on this warm-water 1K, 1.5K and 5K event on January 23, go here. Hundreds of swimmers from FINA pro marathon swimmers to children, budding triathletes and competitive masters swimmers swim across the beautiful Acapulco Bay on Mexico’s west coast. For those who
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The Blue Kealaikahiki Channel In Hawaii Courtesy of Jeff Kozlovich, Big Island, Hawaii. Quinn Carver (10 hours 24 minutes) and Bill Goding (10 hours 44 minutes) swam the 17-mile Kealaikahiki Channel from Kahoolawe to Lanai earlier in April this year, escorted by Sidney Akiona. Enjoy their show here. Copyright © 2008 – 2011 by World
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Rick Heltzel has won the ‘Double Roughwater’, officially billed as the 28th Possibly Annual Hawaiian Christmas Looong Distance Invitational Rough-H2O Swim, for the umpteenth time this past weekend. With conditions the best in the race’s 28-year history, it was the first time that all swimmers finished under three hours over the 7K course. With the
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There are two established professional marathon swimming circuits in the world, both sanctioned by FINA and organized by local race committees. The FINA 10KM Marathon Swimming World Cup circuit are races limited to 10 kilometers held in oceans, seas, bay and lakes from Canada to China. The FINA Open Water Swimming Grand Prix are longer
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The race directors for the Sea King Challenge in Rio de Janeiro have announced an even larger cash prize for the ten pro swimmers competing in the unique 10K course on Copacabana Beach. The ten pros will be fighting over US$10,000 (R$18,500). We will cover the new pro 10K Sea King Challenge live from Rio
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Laura Colette of Boston brought Karen Gaffney to our attention. Karen is an open water swimmer and a tremendously inspirational person who heads her own namesake foundation. She also was the first person with Down Syndrome to swim the English Channel. Karen completed her English Channel adventure as part of a six-person relay team, “My
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