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Courtesy of WOWSA, Winnipeg, Canada. Katrina Bellio out-sprinted Regan Rathwell and Catherine Minic in the women’s 1.5 km race at the 2018 RBC Canadian Junior Championships at the St. Malo Provincial Park. “It was pretty good, pretty hard,” said Bellio who also won the 200m, 400m and 800m freestyle and 400m individual medley. “I wasn’t […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Naples Island, Long Beach, California. Michael Murphy will be the first person to complete the Naples Island Swim backstroke. His road to this unprecedented 3-mile backstroke swim began in 1993 when he was temporarily paralyzed due to ruptured disks. His surgery and follow-up recovery emphasized swimming. This was a welcomed recovery because
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Courtesy of Kevin Murphy, Channel Swimming & Piloting Federation. When a marathon swimmer attempts a two-way crossing (double crossing) or a three-way crossing (triple crossing) of a channel or lake, there are specific rules that govern the turn-around point. Whether this is a two-way crossing of the Catalina Channel or a three-way crossing of the
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Newport Beach, California. Up and down the Southern California coast they go, spending their weekends racing from Oceanside to Redondo Beach and many beaches in between. Lexie Kelly and Ryan Bullock won the Newport Pier-2-Pier Swim, a 2-mile ocean swim between Balboa Pier and Newport Pier in Newport Beach, California on July
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Lake Ohrid, Macedonia. The International Olimpic Swimming Marathon 10 km Ohrid race will be held on August 11th in Ohrid, Macedonia. Entry forms for the 10-loop race in Lake Ohrid, located in the mountainous region between southwestern Macedonia and eastern Albania, can be downloaded at bit.ly/EntryFormOhrid2018. Vojislav Mijić explains, “First place will
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Hardened In The Open Water: Observing Stage Swimmers Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Ross Edgley is currently en route in The Great British Swim, an estimated 100-day assisted 3,218 km circumnavigation stage swim around Great Britain, while Ben Lecomte is doing The Swim, an estimated 6-9 month assisted 8,721 km transpacific stage swim from
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Courtesy of Seti Afoa, Samoa Events. Seti Afoa, one of the most forceful and impactful personalities in the global open water swimming community, is sincerely and deeply motivated about his passion for open water swimming – and he is more than happy to share it with others. He hosted the 2018 New Zealand Ultra-Marathon Swim
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