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Kevin Murphy (on left) and Michael Read (on right) On Becoming A Marathon Centurion Courtesy of Ned Denison, International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame. Ned Denison completed 1 million swimming meters (621 miles or 1000 km) yesterday for 2019. It was the eighth year of the last nine which he accomplished his annual swimming target. […]
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Toy Balloons For Open Water Swimmers Courtesy of William Mark Corporation. Mark Forti and Blake English won the 2011 TAGIE toy inventors’ award for their AirSwimmers, the 2012 Gift of the Year. For more information, visit here. Copyright © 2008 – 2019 by World Open Water Swimming Association
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Together, We Are An Ocean Courtesy of Adam Walker, Tsugaru Channel, Japan. Japanese writer Ryunosuke Satoro once wrote, “Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.” American actress Drew Barrymore once said, “I pray to be like the ocean, with soft currents, maybe waves at times. More and more, I want the consistency
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What To Say – Or Not – To An Open Water Swimmer Courtesy of Coruja Filmes Produtora of Adherbal de Oliveira swimming the Travessia do Leme ao Pontal, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. There are lots of things that open water swimmers know, both instinctively and learned over time. They learn about how it is best
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Nominate Your Favorite Swimmers For The 2019 World Open Water Swimming Man Of The Year Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Ion Lazarenco Tiron of the Republic of Moldava was voted the 2018 World Open Water Swimming Man of the Year. Anyone can nominate any swimmer, coach, pilot, race director, official, administrator, writer or filmmaker
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Nominate Your Favorite Product, Event, Movie Or Book For The 2019 World Open Water Swimming Performance Of The Year Photo courtesy of Josef Köberl, Hintertuxer Gletscher, Austria. The innovative Icebears Hintertux training camp held in Austria and organized by Josef Köberl was voted as the 2018 World Open Water Swimming Offering of the Year. Anyone
Little Is Huge Courtesy of Clark Little Photography, Oahu, Hawaii. While open water swimmers stand onshore to stretch, plan out, and recover from their swim, Clark Little spends a vast majority of his time in the ocean right on the shoreline. For ocean swimmers, Little’s beautifully creative work speaks volumes. Flip through his 2020 Calendar
Nominate Your Favorite Swimmer For The 2019 World Open Water Swimming Woman Of The Year Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Last year in a very close online vote, young Polish winter swimmer and channel swimmer Aleksandra Bednarek was voted the 2018 World Open Water Swimming Woman of the Year among an illustrious group of
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Russians May Be Barred From The 2020 Olympic Marathon Swim Courtesy of WOWSA, Odaiba Marine Park, Tokyo Bay, Japan. The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) banned Russia from international sports events, including the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games and the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games, for 4 years due purposefully false doping tests. But marathon swimmers in
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Bell Is Rung & Heard In The International Swimming Hall of Fame Courtesy of International Swimming Hall of Fame, Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Marilyn Bell stood and swam among the giants of the sport – and her legacy will be permanently recognized by the global swimming community upon her induction in the International Swimming Hall of
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