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Courtesy of Swimming World Magazine. Swimming World Magazine named Olympic 10K marathon swimming gold medalist Sharon van Rouwendaal of the Netherlands as its Swimming World Female Open Water Swimmer of the Year. It was the 25-year-old’s third Swimming World Female Open Water Swimmer of the Year award. She has been similarly honored in 2014 and […]
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Kristóf Rasovszky Earns Swimming World Magazine Honor Courtesy of Swimming World Magazine. Swimming World Magazine named Kristóf Rasovszky of Hungary as its 2018 Swimming World Male Open Water Swimmer of the Year. Rasovszky, a 21-year-old former up-and-coming 1500m pool swimmer, earned his first Swimming World honor as he blossomed into one of the world’s fastest
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Goggles For Guppies Does Good Courtesy of Goggles for Guppies, Mission Viejo, California. In 2011, Goggles for Guppies was co-founded by Chris Hales and Matt Hales, twin 12-year-old brothers who are competitive age-group swimmers at the Mission Viejo Nadadores in Southern California. Over the last 7 years, the brothers have distributed over 20,000 new swimsuits,
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Courtesy of Oscar Rubio, Mallorca, Spain. After over 2,000 swimmers competed in seven races around the globe, the Open Water World Tour 2018, co-founder Oscar Rubio [shown above in the middle] announced that the winners of the Tour – Andrea Fos Corberá and Xabier Gordoa Aspiazu – who were rewarded with an invitation to the
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Murmansk, Russia. Russian winter swimmer Nadezhda Dudina is from Ufa, Bashkortostan and is one of the fastest septuagenarian open water swimmers in the world. She is definitely the world’s fastest winter swimmer among those older than 70 years. She won the 2017 – 2018 International Winter Swimming Association World Cup circuit in
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Joanna Langfield was able to uncover the marathon swimming exploits of her grandmother Ida Elionsky that led to her being inducted in the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame.
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Polizia Pair Win 2018 FINA UltraMarathon Swim Series Courtesy of FINA, Coronda River (Argentina), lac St-Jean (Quebec, Canada), and Lake Ohrid (Macedonia). The Polizia di Stato is a national police force of Italy that is responsible for highway patrol, railways, airports, customs (together with the Guardia di Finanza) as well as certain waterways, and assists
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Ocean Triple R: Remote Recovery Research Emergency Care Courtesy of Nuala Moore, Dingle, Co Kerry, Ireland. On October 20th and 21st, Nuala Moore hosted the inaugural Ocean Triple R: Remote Recovery Rescue Emergency Care Summit that was attended by medics, nurses, swimmers and event organizers. “It was amazing and worth bringing all areas that a
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Courtesy of Mark Johnston, Flathead Lake Open Water Swimmers, Montana. Mark Johnston of the Flathead Lake Open Water Swimmers in Montana is working together with Simon Griffiths, the founder and publisher of Outdoor Swimmer Magazine to increase the North American content and number of event listings. He explains, “Outdoor Swimmer is on a mission to
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