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Courtesy of Darren Miller, Three Rivers Marathon Swim, California. The results of the Three Rivers Marathon Swim, organized by Darren Miller, are below. The annual 30 km three-river competition is held in the Ohio, Allegheny, and Monongahela Rivers in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and is a charity swim for the Forever Fund. “It turned out to be […]
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Courtesy of Jose Luis Larrosa Chorro, River Bhagirathi, West Bengal, India. For decades, marathon swimming events from Italy (36 km Maratona del Golfo Capri-Napoli) to Argentina (88 km Maratón Internacional Hernandarias – Paraná) have attracted swimmers from around the world. More recently, newer races have been held from North Dakota (57.9 km END-WET) to New
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Courtesy of Marina Trash Skimmer, Huntington Beach, California. One of the biggest disappointments we have among the open water swimming community is swimming into plastics (bags, bottles, debris). Huntington Harbour in the City of Huntington Beach will add seven trash skimmers along the harbor. Trash skimmers are partially submerged bins and help remove floating debris
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Jose Luis Larrosa Chorro won his second consecutive 81 km (50.3-mile) India National Open Water Swimming Competition in the River Bhagirathi near Bangladesh.* Next week, he will be presenting and teaching at the Liberty Wave Open Water Swim in Singapore. Larrosa’s world travels rival that of the globe-trotting adventures
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Courtesy of Ryan Holiday, Thought Catalog. Ryan Holiday of Austin, Texas wrote Ego is the Enemy and The Obstacle Is The Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials Into Triumphs. He also recently wrote Forget Meditating, Just Go For A Swim here in the Thought Catalog.
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Courtesy of Lynn Kubasek, Santa Barbara Channel Swimming Association, California. Steven Dalke crossed the Santa Barbara Channel from Anacapa Island to Silverstrand on the California mainland in 7 hours 7 minutes. What made his crossing unique was how natural he did it. “Usually I see swimmers glopped from head to toes in protective goop,” said
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Harry Huffaker, an inductee in the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame, had been alternatively training for additional open water swims and traveling solo in his recreational vehicle in the state of New Mexico. Unfortunately, his trip was interrupted by a stroke/brain bleed. “Without warning, I began to experience
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Courtesy of Satiro Sodré, SSPress/CBDA, Lago Paranoá, Brasília, Brazil. Within eight seconds, the top nine swimmers finished the Campeonato Brasileiro de Aguas Abertas in Lago Paranoá, an artificial reservoir in Brasília, on September 17th. Among the seven fastest men in the national Brazilian open water swimming championships, two top women (Ana Marcela Cunha and Viviane
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Courtesy of Thomas Lovelock and Simon Lodge, WOWSA, Swim Serpentine, London. Ferry Weertman is on a roll – from the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro to the 2017 FINA World Championships in Lake Balaton in Hungary to the Swim Serpentine in London. But he just edged Spyridon Gianniotis in the Olympics, Jordan Wilimovsky
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Mark Moore, Program Director & Head Coach of the Mission Viejo Nadadores Masters, is hosting the Mission Mile, a 1-mile swim on Lake Mission Viejo in Southern California on September 24th. For more event information and online registration, visit here. Copyright © 2008-2017 by World Open Water Swimming Association
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