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Was Odysseus A True Marathon Swimmer? Painting shows of Athena Revealing Ithaca to Ulysses (Odysseus) by Giuseppe Bottani (18th century). Was Odysseus among the first mythical character to be a marathon swimmer? According to Homer’s famous epic story Odyssey, Odysseus was sailing from Thrinacia to Ogygia when his ship was struck by a thunderbolt and […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. ‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the land, People were jumping on the open water band. Goggles and swimsuits were selected with care,In hopes that summer season soon would be there. Marathon swimmers with big dreams in their heads,After miles of training, fall fast asleep in their
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Slosberg The Shrewd Sleuth Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Openwaterpedia is a unique, comprehensive, multilingual online reference tool for the aquatic community. Openwaterpedia has 32,696 different entries and 70,943 pages of content that are useful for research and reference purposes. The online resource includes the following entries as of December 2019: 19,324 different entries
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Video by Dennis Daletzki. Extremschwimmer André Wiersig und die Ocean’s Seven | Sportclub | NDR Doku Article courtesy of Freudenberg Sealing Technologies. André Wiersig set a goal and achieved it in June 2019. He became the tenth person in history to achieve the Oceans Seven. He had a conversation about drive, self-determination and the different
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Stari Grad, Where Getting Older Is Nothing New Courtesy of Vojislav Mijić, Stari Grad – Faros, Croatia. 44-year-old Angela Maurer won the women’s title at the Faros Maratón again back in September while 20-year-old Grgo Mujan easily won the 16 km professional race in 3 hours 27 minutes. Maurer, who twice represented Germany at the
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Karen Gaffney Joins Open Water Luminaries At TED Talks Courtesy of TEDx Talks, Portland, Oregon. Karen Gaffney has swam across the English Channel as part of a six-person relay team and swam widthwise across Lake Tahoe to raise money for the National Down Syndrome Congress and to show what individuals with Down Syndrome can do.
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Bogusław Ogrodnik Joins Open Water Luminaries At TED Talks Courtesy of TEDx Talks, English Channel. Bogusław Ogrodnik is an inspiration to many. His athletic accomplishments are varied and impressive: * He is a member of the exclusive Peak and Pond Club (i.e., climbing Mount Everest and swimming the English Channel in 20 hours 33 minutes).
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Hanna Bakuniak Joins Ice Milers In Poland Courtesy of Hanna Bakuniak, Gdansk, Poland. After finishing 3rd overall in the Ice Kilometer at the IISA 3rd World Championship in Murmansk, Russia and finishing 2nd overall in the 2019 International Ice Swimming Association World Cup Series, 23-year-old Hanna Bakuniak decided to swim a longer distance in cold
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Courtesy of Julian Critchlow, English Channel. Out of curiosity, we wondered what the gradual progression of the English Channel crossing records were since 1875. Based on Julian Critchlow‘s database, we found out these nuggets of history of swims from France to England and from England to France: France to England Solo Crossing – World Record
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5-way?!? No Way?!? Well, Maybe Yes… Courtesy of Outdoor Swimmer Magazine. “It will take some magic to accomplish, but I absolutely think it is possible. If things hadn’t gone so awry with the currents on my last lap, I had enough left in the tank to do a five-way [English Channel crossing],” said Sarah Thomas
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