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Pioneering Women In San Francisco Bay Courtesy of the International Swimming Hall of Fame. The International Swimming Hall of Fame archives have a photo of an old pigskin award presented in 1912 to Nell Schmidt, a pioneering open water swimmer from the Dolphin Club in San Francisco, by the City of Alameda, California (on San […]
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Marcelo Galvão Butterflys The Fuga da Ilha Grande Courtesy of WOWSA, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It has taken Marcelo Galvão a lot of training, planning and preparation to complete his longest butterfly swim, but he accomplished it on November 10th in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He completed his first butterfly 4 km ocean swim in
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Swimming Across The Big Blue Courtesy of Jeff Kozlovich, Kahoolawe, Hawaii. The Kealaikahiki Channel is a body of water between the islands of Kahoolawe to Lanai in the state of Hawaii. It is rarely crossed. Captain Sidney Akiona escorted software engineer Quinn Carver (10 hours 24 minutes) and retired U.S. Air Force pararescueman Bill Goding
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Swim Camp Punta Del Este 2019 Courtesy of Arturo Santos, Isla de Lobos, Punta del Este, Uruguay. Arturo Santos and María N. Simmendinger started Swim Uruguay. They created a training camp and open water swim to Isla de Lobos in Punta del Este. Santos is one of the pioneers of this crossing and has crossed
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Osama Rashad, 1954 – 2019 Courtesy of Nasser Elshazly, Egypt. One of the most exciting – if not the most exciting in history – Traversée internationale du lac St-Jean, a professional 32 km marathon race in lac St-Jean in Quebec, Canada was the 1973 race when Osama Rashad of Egypt and Horacio Iglesias tied for
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Double River Swim Challenge By Madswimmer Courtesy of Madswimmer, South Africa. Madswimmer is organizing the Double River Swim Challenge, a 2-day 41 km stage swim in the Bushman’s River (26 km) and the Kariega River (15 km) on December 7th – 8th. Francois du Toit announced, “We still have a few spaces available in the
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The Roaring 20’s Of Open Water Swimming Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The Roaring 20’s of the 20th century were an iconic period in U.S. and Western European history. There was a relatively booming economy, especially in the aftermath of World War I, where cars, telephones, movies, radio, and electrical appliances like washing machine
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Jade Perry, Christof Wandratsch Wins 1st Stage Winter Swimming World Cup Courtesy of International Winter Swimming Association, Jelgava, Latvia. 231 winter swimmers from 20 countries participated in the 11th Jelgavas Roni Cup that served as the 1st stage of the – International Winter Swimming Association World Cup. The event was held on November 1st –
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The Year That Boosted Walter Poenisch To (The Hall Of) Fame Courtesy of International Swimming Hall of Fame and Fayette Poenisch, International Federation of Professional Ocean Swimmers and Divers. Walter Poenisch, an honor swimmer in the International Swimming Hall of Fame, was elected to become an Honor Swimmer in the International Marathon Swimming Hall of
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PowerSwimming In The Open Water Courtesy of DARPAtv. Years ago, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), an agency of the U.S. Department of Defense responsible for the development of emerging technologies for use by the military, sponsored its PowerSwim Program with the aim to create highly efficient, human-powered swimming devices for use by combat
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