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Courtesy of WOWSA, Murmansk, Russia. With the water at 0.6°C (33°F), the man for all seasons – Petar Stoychev – may face his biggest career challenge to date. The former English Channel world record holder, the 2011 FINA 25 km world champion (in 32°C water), the 4-time Olympic swimmer, the 11-time victor of the Traversée […]
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Courtesy of Maksym Polshcha, Kiev, Ukraine. The Desna 6.5 is a challenging 6.5 km river swim down the Desna river in Kiev, Ukraine. Maksym Polshcha describes the event, “It is like swimming the Bosphorus in Istanbul. It is the same distance with similarly strong currents, but there are a swimming cap, towel, pasta party, and
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Courtesy of Fazlul Kabir Sina, Bangla Channel, Bay of Bengal, Bangladesh. Fazlul Kabir Sina is the organizer of the International Bangla Channel Marathon Swim, a 16.1 km race across the Bangla Channel in the Bay of Bengal in Bangladesh. Kabir, along with Lipton Sarker and Salman Saeed, did the first successful crossing of the 16.1
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Courtesy of Oscar Rubio, Open Water World Tour. The second edition of the 2019 Open Water World Tour has expanded to the African continent where the Tour opens at the Jendamark Bellbuoy Challenge in the Nelson Mandela Bay at Port Elisabeth on April 13th (see here). 2019 Open Water World Tour Schedule April 13th: 5
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Why? Lewis Pugh Explains At Westminster Abbey Courtesy of A Service of Celebration for Commonwealth Day 2019, BBC, Westminster Abbey, London, England. Why? Many open water swimmers are asked that question about why they swim. It is sometimes a difficult question to comprehensively explain. Lewis Pugh, United Nations Patron of the Oceans, has always been
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Ice Kilometer World Championship In 2013 vs 2019 Courtesy of Nuala Moore, Murmansk, Russia. 396 ice swimmers qualified for the IISA 3rd World Championship in Murmansk, Russia. The largest contingent in the third edition of the ice swimming world championships is from Russia with 251 swimmers followed by Great Britain (19 swimmers), China (15), Ireland
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Photo of Henri Kaarma at the 2016 Winter World Swimming Championships by Konstantin Soldatov in Tyumen, Russia. Another very, very fast race is anticipated at the International Ice Swimming Association 3rd World Championship and 1st Ice Swimming Arctic Cup in Murmansk, Russia. It will be fast, furious and freezing in the 50m freestyle event. The
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Engraved on a Nation: The Impossible Swim – 60 second Promo from CIRCLE BLUE ENTERTAINMENT. Filmmakers Ali Weinstein and Larry Weinstein created a 60-minute documentary film about Maya Farrell’s attempt at crossing Lake Ontario that recently aired in Canada on TSN. Engraved on a Nation: The Impossible Swim was first broadcast in Canada on February
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