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Swimmers Have A Certain GLOW Courtesy of WOWSA, Coronation Park Beach, Canada. Between September 28th and 29th for 24 consecutive hours, the Great Lakes Trust will host a GLOW adventures 24-hour open water swimming event at Coronation Park Beach in Oakville, Ontario. Madhu Nagaraja describes the event, “We love the Great Lakes. We love the […]
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Courtesy of Marcy MacDonald, Calais, France. Marcy MacDonald is a podiatrist by professional and a channel swimmer by heart and mind. Today, she finished her 16th crossing of the English Channel at a beach north of Calais, France in 15 hours 1 minute. It was her longest Channel crossing during her career that began in
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Courtesy of Paul Lecomte, Kuroshio Current, Pacific Ocean. Ben Lecomte completed his longest stage swim of 9 hours 29 minutes as he is now over 800 nautical miles (over 1,500 km) from his starting point on Japan. He is making good progress in the fast-moving Kuroshio Current in the Pacific Ocean. He still has a
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007 On James Bond Beach Courtesy of Lascelles Clarke, James Bond Beach, Oracabessa, Jamaica. The Lifespan 007 Open Water Swim started because of the efforts of Virginia McConnell, an American from Idaho who worked as a Youth & Sports Advisor for the Peace Corps in Jamaica. McConnell organized sports leagues for elementary school students in
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Courtesy of Paul Lecomte, Kuroshio Current, Pacific Ocean. After over a month of being stymied by wind and weather, squalls and storms, Ben Lecomte has been swimming steadily on his 8,721 km transoceanic stage swim over the last 11 days. With 20.61 nautical miles completed on his last stage swim on Day 89 on September
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Dean Summers, Swimming With Every Gust Of Wind Courtesy of WOWSA, Tsugaru Channel, Japan. Dean Summers is a tough Australian swimmer with crossings of the Rottnest Channel (6 hours 42 minutes in 2014, 7 hours 58 minutes in 2015, 7 hours 19 minutes in 2016), the English Channel (13 hours 19 minutes), the Catalina Channel
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Oahu, Hawaii. 1973, Nancy Ivy placed third overall in the 1973 Waikiki Roughwater Swim in Honolulu, Hawaii. Kaili Chun also placed third overall in the 1973 Waikiki Roughwater Swim. These two young women have been the only females to finish in the top three at the 3.8 km race course across Waikiki
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