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2019 World Open Water Swimming Offering Of The Year Nominees Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The WOWSA Awards are an annual selection of outstanding individuals and offerings in the following categories: * World Open Water Swimming Man of the Year * World Open Water Swimming Woman of the Year * World Open Water Swimming […]
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2019 World Open Water Swimming Performance Of The Year Nominees Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The WOWSA Awards are an annual selection of outstanding individuals and offerings in the following categories: * World Open Water Swimming Man of the Year * World Open Water Swimming Woman of the Year * World Open Water Swimming
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2019 World Open Water Swimming Man Of The Year Nominees Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The WOWSA Awards are an annual selection of outstanding individuals and offerings in the following categories: * World Open Water Swimming Man of the Year * World Open Water Swimming Woman of the Year * World Open Water Swimming
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So Wild: Top 10 Greatest Swimming Expeditions Courtesy of Calum Hudson of the Wild Swimming Brothers. Calum Hudson of the Wild Swimming Brothers wrote a lengthy and immensely interesting article on The Top 10 Greatest Swimming Expeditions. His top 10 selections include: #1 – Lynne Cox across the Bering Strait #2 – Martin Strel –
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Ice Swimmers To Compete In Veitsbronn In The New Year Courtesy of Oliver Halder, Veitsbronn, Germany The IISA World Cup Series & 6th Ice Swimming Aqua Sphere German Open 2020 will be held from January 4th to 6th 2020. Oliver Halder explains, “The Veitsbad in Veitsbronn, near Nuremberg, will be a competition venue for
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Jonathan Ratcliffe Makes The Oceans Seven A Family Affair Courtesy of WOWSA, Peterborough, UK. Not only did Jonathan Ratcliff uses his Oceans Seven channel swims to raise money and awareness for CROPS (Christian Options in Peterborough Schools), but he also completed the last four of his Oceans Seven channel swims between April and December this
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Streaming While Swimming Courtesy of Quinn Fitzgerald, Livermore, California. The sound is great, like hearing your favorite music while sitting down at home with your headphones on – but you are out in the ocean or lake. FINIS has changed the swimming experience by providing crystal clear surround-sound, underwater with its new FINIS Stream. Unlike
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Lewis Pugh Looking Up Down In Antarctica Courtesy of A Service of Celebration for Commonwealth Day 2019, BBC, Westminster Abbey, London, England. Many open water swimmers are occasionally asked why they swim. It can be a difficult question to eloquently explain to a non-swimmers. But Lewis Pugh, United Nations Patron of the Oceans, has always
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Summertime Swimming With And By Chloë McCardel Courtesy of WOWSA, English Channel. It is not many swimmers have the opportunity to meet kings, but few swimmers have such a global reputation as channel swimmer Chloë McCardel. In December, McCardel was invited to meet the King of Bahrain, HM Hamad bin Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa,
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4-Man Relay Across The Gulf Of Finland Courtesy of Roman Karkachev, Gulf of Finland. On October 20th, Roman Karkachev of St. Petersburg, Timur Falomkin of Tomsk, Andrey Zamyslov of Moscow, and Anton Kutuev of Murmansk completed a 4-person relay across the Gulf of Finland from Yelagin Island of St. Petersburg to Kotlin Island. It was
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