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Richard Jones and Brenda Norman were the most recent marathon swimmers to complete the difficult Derwent River Big Swim in Tasmania
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Lynne Cox will make a virtual presentation at 7 pm on January 26th 2021 from the Cary Library in Lexington, Massachusetts.
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Sponsored by KAATSU Global and WOWSA Live. Diary of a Double documents the year-long journey of Antonio Argüelles who will attempt a 67 km two-way crossing of the English Channel in July 2021 with escort pilot Michael Oram. In today’s Diary of a Double episode, Argüelles answered a number of questions from swimmers around the
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Photo by Kazuhiro Tahara. Yasu Fukuoka, known as YASU, has always been clear of his goals. He wanted to represent Japan at the Olympics – and he achieved his goal, racing in the Olympic 10K Marathon Swim at the 2012 London Olympics and the 2016 Rio Olympics. But he
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Sponsored by KAATSU Global and WOWSA Live. Diary of a Double documents the year-long journey of Antonio Argüelles who will attempt a 67 km two-way crossing of the English Channel in July 2021 with escort pilot Michael Oram. In last week’s Diary of a Double episode on WOWSA Live, Argüelles answered a number of questions
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Courtesy of KAATSU Global, Huntington Beach, California. Maria Luisa Cabañero Sanchez de Leon is a Spanish swimmer – and her country’s first female firefighter – who was inducted in the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame in 2009 as an Honor Swimmer. In addition to her many swimming achievements, she also became Spain’s first female firefighter, starting in
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Courtesy of Risto Mattila for the Good News Network. Walk down Shakespeare Beach, a shingle beach in Dover, or up Terranea Beach in Rancho Palos Verdes, California at the end of a Catalina Channel crossing, and walking can be a bit tricky on the rocky shoreline. On Hailuoto Island, that is located between Sweden and
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Courtesy of Сергей Волков, Donetsk, Ukraine. Cold water swimmer Sergei Volkov from Ukraine explains how he makes his own pool, “This method is suitable for any water bodies and ice thickness. Before I start making a cut, I recommend choosing the right place where the cut will be done. This should not be far from
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Courtesy of Ivan Vranjes, Water Polo Cruise, Croatia. Ivan Vranjes and Mateo Jurić are water polo coaches and aquapreneurs who manages two projects, Water Polo Cruise and Swim Cruise in Croatia. The two partners in Water Polo Cruise reported, “Sisak, Petrinja and surrounding area was hit with a devastating 6.4 magnitude earthquake that destroyed many lives in an
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The annual WOWSA Awards honors the heroes and heroines in the World Open Water Swimming Man of the Year, Woman of the Year, Performance of the Year, Offering of the Year categories.
2020 WOWSA Awards Announced Read More »