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Courtesy of Lexie Kelly, aQuellé Midmar Mile, South Africa. Terence Parkin, originally from Zimbabwe, completed another 8 miles for charity at the 44th aQuellé Midmar Mile. The deaf pool and open water swimmer for South Africa who won the silver medal at the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games in the 200m breaststroke, is a real-life hero […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The Afghanistan Swimming Federation has a campaign to create the first Afghanistan National Women’s Swimming Team. Melissa Kelley of Dreamfuel explains, “We know that sport can change lives. In this instance, that can be the case for generations to come.” The Afghanistan Swimming Federation launched an online fundraiser to
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The 2017 calendar for the LEN European Open Water Swimming Cup includes six venues in five countries: * Leg 1 on March 26th – 10 km in Eilat, Israel * Leg 2 on July 1st – 10 km in Barcelona, Spain * Leg 3 on August 5th – 7.5
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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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Courtesy of Jennifer Percy, New York Times, Japan. “I Have No Choice but to Keep Looking“…so begins a story of love and tragedy by Jennifer Percy in the New York Times about a husband looking for his wife in the ocean. “Five years after the tsunami that killed tens of thousands in Japan, Yasuo Takamatsu
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Visiting American swimmers Lexie Kelly, Craig Dietz, and Ashley Twichell were busy swimming back and forth across the Midmar Dam at today’s opening day at the 44th aQuellé Midmar Mile in Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Dietz was on his way to complete in the 8-mile Club while Kelly was
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Courtesy of Ger Kennedy, Antarctica 2020. Ger Kennedy announced the expedition goals of the Antarctica 2020. “Antarctica 2020 is an environmental swim that will create awareness for two non-protected, potential Marine Protected Areas in the Bellingshausen Sea and the Weddell Sea. Participants can be part of one of the greatest group environmental swims on the
Courtesy of Lexie Kelly, aQuellé Midmar Mile, Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. While the men’s race will feature a four-way battle from start to finish between 2016 Olympic champion Ferry Weertman, South Africa’s 5 km world champion Chad Ho, 2005 world champion Chip Peterson and South African Olympian Matthew Meyer, the women’s race is most definitely
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. 21-year-old Nicolás Segurado qualified to compete in the 57 km Maratón Acuática Internacional Santa Fe – Coronda for the first time in his native Argentina. “I fulfilled my goal that I set and I was able to complete the course [in 9 hours 26 minutes in 11th place]. The
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