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Photo courtesy of Deep Blue Media. Results courtesy of FINA. Arianna Bridi did not need to place in the top finishers at the FINA 10K Marathon Swimming World Cup in Hong Kong this weekend to wrap up her first career FINA World Cup season title, but just for good measure, she did in an extremely […]
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Courtesy of FINA. Simone Ruffini of Italy won his second consecutive FINA 10K Marathon Swimming World Cup title, but the path to victory was not an easy one. His teammate Federico Vanelli set the tone of the FINA World Cup season when he dominated the first race of the season in Argentina. But then Ruffini
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Arianna Bridi Wins FINA 10K Marathon Swimming World Cup Photo courtesy of Deep Blue Media. Rankings courtesy of FINA. Arianna Bridi got to train with her world-class teammates on the Italian national open water team and that constant pressure and workouts helped her develop into this year’s FINA 10K Marathon Swimming World Cup series champion.
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Photo courtesy of Ed DeCrooy as the swimmers in the RCP Tiburon Mile cross the Raccoon Strait between Angel Island and Tiburon in San Francisco Bay. Photo of Bob Placak and son courtesy of Elliot Karlan at awards ceremony of RCP Tiburon Mile. Photo of dual RCP Tiburon Mile and FINA world champions Jordan Wilimovsky
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Blue Journey Dangerous Waves Expedition – Behind the Scenes from Bruckner Chase. Faaaloalo I Le Vasa, Dangerous Wave Project Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Faaaloalo i le vasa means “respect the ocean” in the Samoan language. It is the specific messaging of the Blue Journey Dangerous Wave Project, the brainchild of Bruckner Chase. The
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Courtesy of Sarah Thomas and Cliff Crozier with John Batchelder [on left], Catalina Channel, California. In 1989, the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Famer Vicki Keith swam the first non-freestyle swim across the Catalina Channel. She completed the 20.2-mile channel completely butterfly in 14 hours 53 minutes. There were a handful of other non-freestyle crossings
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Courtesy of FINA. Double Olympic silver medalist Jazz Carlin from Great Britain is training to replicate the 2012 Olympic success of Oussama Mellouli in both pool and open water. The British freestyler is considering racing in the new women’s 1500m event and the Olympic 10K Marathon Swim at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Carlin recently raced
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The camera work was critical at the last FINA/HOSA 10km Marathon Swimming World Cup race held in China’s Chun’an Qiandao Lake on October 15th. Both the winners of the men’s and women’s race – Kristof Rasovszky of Hungary and Ana Marcela Cunha – finished in the same time as
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Courtesy of FINA. The camera work was critical at the last FINA/HOSA 10km Marathon Swimming World Cup race held in China’s Chun’an Qiandao Lake on October 15th. Both the winners of the men’s and women’s race – Kristof Rasovszky of Hungary and Ana Marcela Cunha – finished in the same time as the second-place swimmers
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