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The Perfect Ideal Of A Male Swimmer Courtesy of WOWSA, California. Friendly and fit, intelligent and innovative, personable and professional. These are just a few of the characteristics that define the open water swimmers who venture beyond the shorelines around the world. From teenagers to great grandfathers, open water swimmers are billboards of healthy lifestyles […]
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The Perfect Open Water Woman Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Friendly and fit, intelligent and innovative, personable and professional. These are just a few of the characteristics that define the open water swimmers who venture beyond the shorelines around the world. From teenagers to great grandfathers, open water swimmers are billboards of healthy lifestyles
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Magdy Mandour, Marathon Man Courtesy of Nasser Elshazly, Cairo, Egypt. Magdy Mandour was part of the latter part of the greatest generation of Egyptian open water swimmers who raced around the world between late 1950s and early 1980s. Mandour came upon the World Professional Marathon Swimming Federation scene between 1972 and 1982. 1972 Results: *
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Bob Burnside Leaves A Huge Wake As His Legacy Courtesy of Swimming World Magazine. California waterman and famed lifeguard Bob Burnside passed away on December 10th at the age of 87. Burnside was the Founding President of the United States Lifesaving Association and 2014 Paragon Award / Aquatic Safety recipient whose legacy is huge throughout
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Write On, Elaine Howley Courtesy of WOWSA, Boston, Massachusetts. From Captain Matthew Webb and Gertrude Ederle to Sarah Thomas and Ross Edgley, Elaine Howley is among open water swimming’s most prolific writers and foremost historians. Howley promotes open water swimming, its history and its luminaries in a highly educational, easy-to-read manner via her numerous articles
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Winter Swimming In China Courtesy of Roman Karkachev, Taierzhuang, China. Snow + swimming = winter swimming. The International Winter Swimming Association is offering an 8-day event for 550€ that covers the 6th International Winter Swimming Festival on the Grand Canal and the 8th Winter Springs-swimming International Invitational on Daming Lake that serves as the 3rd
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Cor de Bruin Passes After A Lifetime Of Service Courtesy of Richard Broer, IJsselmeer, Netherlands. Before he passed away earlier today in his native Netherlands, Cor de Bruin helped organize 25 of the last 50 races across the IJsselmeer. Richard Broer tells of his work, “Cor was one of the pillars for the continuity of
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David Aubry Gearing Up To The 2020 Tokyo Olympics Courtesy of WOWSA, Odaiba Marine Park, Tokyo Bay, Japan. The Olympic 10K Marathon Swim at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games is scheduled to be in the very warm, very flat, tranquil Odaiba Marine Park in Tokyo Bay. For fast distance swimmers accustomed to racing in a
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Elizabeth Almond, Driving Herself And Others In The Open Water Courtesy of WOWSA, Lake Lanier, Georgia. 46-year-old Elizabeth Almond from Georgia completed the Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming in 84 days, the 7th fastest period to complete a crossing of the English Channel, a crossing of the Catalina Channel, and a circumnavigation swim around
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Alisa Fatum, The Woman To Watch In The Ice Photo courtesy of Martin Tschepe, Veitsbronn, Bavaria, Germany. With the 6th Ice Swimming Aqua Sphere German Open & IISA® World Cup coming up on January 4th-6th 2020 in Veitsbronn, Germany, eyes will be on Alisa Fatum who was on a tear during 2019. At the January
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