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Courtesy of Robert Heiduk, KAATSU Germany. German swimmer Jacqueline Kempfer crossed the Fehmarnbelt, a 18 km strait in the western part of the Baltic Sea between the German island of Fehmarn and the Danish island of Lolland last year in 9 hours 9 minutes. Kempfer and her coach Volker Kleinert wanted to step up her […]
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Courtesy of Paul Lecomte, The Longest Swim, Pacific Ocean. The Longest Swim will definitely live up to its billings. The Longest Swim is Benoît Lecomte‘s stage swim from Tokyo across the Pacific Ocean to San Francisco, California. His crew estimates that it will take 5-6 months to cross over 5,419 miles (8,721 km) across the
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The H2OMAN Marathon Swim in Lakawon Island Resort is a multi-race open water swimming competition on Lakawon Island, Negros Occidental in the Philippines on May 6th and 7th. Organized by the Swim Academy and Pinoy Fitness, the distances include races of 500m, 1.5 km, 2.5 km, 5 km, a
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After years of planning and politicking, the selection of the location of the 2024 Summer Olympics is turning out to be between two large global cities. Several candidate cities expressed interest in hosting the 2024 Olympics including Rome (Italy), Nairobi (Kenya), Casablanca (Morocco), Durban (South Africa), Johannesburg (South Africa), Doha (Qatar), Brisbane (Australia), Paris (France),
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Courtesy of Dmitry Anashkin (Дмитрий Анашкин), Vladivostok, Russia. Dmitry Anashkin is a Russian race director who organizes an annual 1 km open water swim and a 12 km marathon swim called the Amur Bay International Swim (Марафонский заплыв Амурский Залив во Владивостоке), held in Vladivostok, Russia that started in 2013 and has been growing ever
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Photo of the members of the Maui Swim Club, L-R: Jose Balmores, Takashi ‘Halo’ Hirose, William Neunzig, and Keo Nakama courtesy of the International Swimming Hall of Fame, Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Imagine growing up and swimming in an irrigation ditch. And then becoming one of the best swimmers in the world. The island of Maui
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Among the highest grossing charity swims in the world is the Tampa Bay Frogman Swim in Florida that exceeded over US$600,000 in donations* for the Navy SEAL Foundation last year. Race director Rory O’Connor and Kurt Ott have now established a sister swim on the other side of America,
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Courtesy of Beatriz Alvariño Díaz del Río, Atlantic Extrem Sports. The Atlantic Islands Triple Crown (Triple Corona Illas Atlánticas) is a 3-stage, 3-year, 57 km marathon swim between the Island of Sálvora and Vilagarcía de Arousa in Galicia, Spain. Held on September 2nd, nearly 100 swimmers will compete in one of the longest and most
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Courtesy of Audi Q7 e-tron 3.0 TDI Quattro with Nuala Moore in Dingle in Co Kerry, Ireland. Last year’s Audi Q7 e-tron 3.0 TDI Quattro advertisement featuring Irish ice swimmer Nuala Moore won a gold medal at the Accenture Digital Irish Media Awards over last weekend. “Thanks to the Irish Times for asking me and
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. 28-year-old Daina Bouquin [addressing media in photo on left] swept four events at the United States Winter Swimming Association’s 2017 Winter Swimming National Championships at the New York Aquarium in Coney Island: in the 50m butterfly, 50m freestyle, 100m freestyle, and 200m freestyle. 50m Breaststroke Women’s Results 1. Jaimie
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