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Matthias Kaßner Describes His Open Water Journey On WOWSA Live Sponsored by KAATSU Global, Huntington Beach, California. 52-year-old Matthias Kaßner from Germany has achieved the Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming, an Ice Mile, and completed five Oceans Seven channels to date. Kaßner discussed his career and his passion for open water swimming since his […]
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Taylor Pike Won 2019 CSCAA National Collegiate Open Water Swimming Championships Courtesy of College Swimming and Diving Coaches Association, Lone Star Lake, Kansas. There are tens of thousands of open water swims that have been cancelled or postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown and its aftermath. While each and every one of the
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Scientist-swimmer Karah Nazor talked about her various passions from science to open water swimming on WOWSA Live
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Moritz Bartels Won 2019 CSCAA National Collegiate Open Water Swimming Championships Courtesy of College Swimming and Diving Coaches Association, Lone Star Lake, Kansas. There are tens of thousands of open water swims that have been cancelled or postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown and its aftermath. While each and every one of the
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Small Group Clubhous Swims 2020 Courtesy of Phil White, Lake Memphremagog, Vermont. On June 27, Kingdom Games kicked off its radically redesigned summer of Small Group Socially Distanced Open Water Swimming. Nine swimmers and nine kayakers swam various distances out and around Bell Island, Black Island, and Cove Island. The swim was held in conformity
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Karen Burton Talks About Swimming Around The World On WOWSA Live Sponsored by KAATSU Global, Huntington Beach, California. Karen Reeder, née Burton took a trip down memory lane during today’s WOWSA Live interview. The International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame Honor Swimmer and Air Force Academy graduate from Colorado described her professional marathon swimming career
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Wes Nolan Describes His Open Water Journey On WOWSA Live Sponsored by KAATSU Global, Huntington Beach, California. Wesley Nolan, a former water polo player who represented Ireland internationally at the Deaf Olympics and the European Championships, was inspired to try the sport of open water swimming. The 42-year-old father of three (soon to be four)
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Old-School Canadian Professional Race Posters Courtesy of Daniel Vizeu Costa Couto. Le Marathon du Saguenay was a 45 km professional marathon swim held on the Saguenay River from Chicoutimi to Bagotville in the Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean region of Quebec, Canada. The event was sanctioned by the World Professional Marathon Swimming Federation in the 1960s and 1970s. The
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The top Egyptian marathon swimmers in the 1950’s and 1960’s were certainly larger than life and competed with – and beat – the best in the world.
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Thomas Pembroke On The Ability To Do More On WOWSA Live Sponsored by KAATSU Global, Huntington Beach, California. On August 29th 2013, Darren Miller completed a 35 km crossing of the North Channel from Northern Ireland to Scotland in 11 hours 16 minutes at the age of 30 to achieve the Oceans Seven. At the
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