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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Sam Plum, Jason Betley, Helen Gibbs, Helen Liddle, and Debbie Taylor set off on an unprecedented swim on July 3rd and 4th 2015. The 5-person 40-mile (64 km) Three Lakes Challenge (or Loch, Lake, Llyn) involved swimming the length of Loch Awe in Scotland (25 miles/40 km), then driving […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. It took 14 years for Damián Blaum to win the 57 km Maratón Acuática Internacional Santa Fe – Coronda in his native Argentina. But the 35-year-old eventually scored his first career victory in the opening stage on the 2017 FINA Open Water Swimming Grand Prix circuit. Men’ Final Results:
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Registration for the first 400 athletes to compete in the Red Bull Neptune Steps open today. Red Bull Neptune Steps requires athletes to swim and climb 420 meters of cold water and climb 18 meters over seven canal lock gates. Last year, it took only 8 minutes before Scotland’s
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. A cross border swim is an international swim or intercontinental swim that starts in one country or continent and finishes in another country or continent, crossing a border somewhere along the course. There are many cross-border open water swims around the world. Some include Georgeville or Bust (between Canada
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Courtesy of Joe Grossman, Secretary of the World Professional Marathon Swimming Federation. Back in 1967, the move to the Olympic Games began under the leadership of Herman Willemse [shown on left], the then president of the World Professional Marathon Swimming Federation, vice president George Park, and Secretary-Treasurer Joe Grossman. The Federation petitioned the International Olympic
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Courtesy of Joe Grossman, Secretary of the World Professional Marathon Swimming Federation. The history of the World Professional Marathon Swimming Federation and International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame were outlined in a typed memorandum and distributed bulletins to professional marathon swimmers by Joe Grossman in a Federation document circa Spring 1972. This is his information:
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Kelvin Steyn and Gary Albertyn both completed 16 miles at the aQuellé Midmar Mile to join the 16-mile Club, but they did an extra mile on Saturday to become the first swimmers to do 17 in one Midmar Mile weekend. Steyn also reached his own milestone of 50 career
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Courtesy of Adam Walker, Lough Dan, Wicklow, Ireland. Adam Walker describes his ice mile in 25 minutes 26 seconds conducted in Lough Dan in Ireland. Read Walker’s first-person account at the 5th Eastern Bay Invitational Ice Mile here. Copyright © 2008-2017 by World Open Water Swimming Association
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. 2016 Olympic champion Ferry Weertman of the Netherlands joined thousands of swimmers today at the 44th annual aQuellé Midmar Mile in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. While his much anticipated race against 7-time Midmar Mile champion Chad Ho is tomorrow, Weertman wanted to gain a bit more experience swimming the mile-long
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