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World Open Water Swimming Federation, a human-powered project
Courtesy of Karen Einsidler, Mighty Mermaids. The Mighty Mermaids is made up of six women who are all competitive masters swimmers. “We got together to do marathon swims when we were all over 50 [years old],” explains 61-year-old Karen Einsidler. “We do one swim a year and are very selective about the swims we choose. […]
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Courtesy of Andre Slade, OceanFit, Australia. Lia Trebilcock had the opportunity to teach students from Nepal about the beauty and risks of open water swimming in a special OceanFit program at the request of the Hamro Institute of Business Technology. Her story is here. Copyright © 2008-2017 by World Open Water Swimming Association
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Durban, a coastal city in eastern South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal province, hosts a number of open water swimming competitions. Because of its seafront orientation, we had hoped that open water swimming would have been added to the 2022 Commonwealth Games. But after Durban was awarded the Commonwealth Games in 2015
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Mark Sheridan recently received the Diamond Jubilee Special Award from the British Long Distance Swimming Association for his 2016 crossing of Lake Geneva. What is remarkable about Sheridan’s 69 km crossing of Lake Geneva is his solo marathon swim of 33+ hours was not unique. A vast majority of
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. A feeding station is a fixed or floating pontoon, pier, boat or other location where coaches can provide hydration or fuel to open water swimmers during an open water swimming or marathon swimming event. It can also be called a hydration station, feeding pontoon or feeding stop. In international
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The 2016 24-mile Tampa Bay Marathon Swim was stopped mid-way by high winds. “With winds that gradually increased, the conditions led to a change of the cross-bay swim to a safer triangular contingency course.” But even the sheltered course was too much. “After battling for almost three and a
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Some open water swimmers place a few extra gel packs in their swimsuits during competitive races, but not all. But if a feeding is missed at a feeding pontoon along the race course, the extra gel pack or two certainly comes in handy. What are gel packs made of?
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Igor de Souza has lived much of his adult life on, in or near the open water. An open water swimming administrator for the Brazilian Swimming Federation and race director for the FINA 10K Marathon Swimming World Cup race in Santos, Brazil, he was inducted in the International Marathon
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Courtesy of Eoin Gaffney, Leinster Open Sea, Ireland. The history of competitive open water swimming in Ireland is coming up on its centennial anniversary with this summer’s 98th Dublin City Liffey Swim and the 87th Dún Laoghaire Harbour Race. The events are hosted by Leinster Open Sea, a non-profit organisation that works with swimming clubs
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Passionate watermen from Hawaii to New Jersey to Rio de Janeiro are helping people with disabilities get into and enjoy the open water. People Kainoa McGee in Hawaii create and offer Versatility Krafts that offer stability and ample room for individuals and families to paddle together. Programs like the
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