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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Barbara Pozzobón has been getting better and better over her open water swimming career. Today, she earned her first FINA Open Water Swimming Grand Prix circuit victory in the 57 km Maratón Acuática Internacional Santa Fe – Coronda. Pozzobón won the 43rd edition of the river race in 8 […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Damián Blaum won today’s Maratón Acuática Internacional Santa Fe – Coronda, his first career victory in the opening stage on the 2017 FINA Open Water Swimming Grand Prix circuit. Blaum completed the 57 km race in 8 hours 28 minutes, comfortably beating second-place Edoardo Stochino of Italy (8 hours
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Photos circa 1919-1920 in Huntington Beach, California. From the shores of Huntington Beach, Santa Catalina Island can be seen across the Pacific Ocean on nearly every day. Decades ago, the coastline along the Huntington Beach coast was an oil drilling center in Southern California. The same California coastline is now a bustling suburb of Los
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Julie Tester finds herself in Grandvalira Ski Resort in Andorra to cheer on her 18-year-old son who won the Freeride Junior Freeskiing Championships. The swimmer from Truckee, California is a 10-time winner of the 250-yard Gar Woods Polar Bear Swim in Lake Tahoe, California, but she has been so
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Courtesy of Michael Ventre, New York to London Swim. Sometimes, it is harder to get to the starting line than it is to the finish. Several people have had plans to attempt a transoceanic solo stage swim, but few have raised the requisite money to handle all of the logistics and operations required of such
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Courtesy of Brenton Williams, Jeffreys Bay, South Africa. South Africa’s top female open water swimmer Michelle Weber had a strong swim in her first race of 2017 when she won the women’s 5 km swim at Marina Martinique in blustery conditions. The 5 km swim was the first event of the Eastern Cape Open Water
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Jon Hestoy is an example of a volunteer who helps make international open water swimming events run smoothly and safely. Hestoy flew from his native Faroe Islands to Argentina to serve as the FINA Technical Delegate for the Maratón Acuática Internacional Santa Fe – Coronda on the FINA Open
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Rachele Bruni is one competitive athlete. When she dives into the water, she aims to win. And she often does. The 2016 Olympic silver medalist in Rio won the sprint race held before the La Patagones Viedma, the first race in the 2017 FINA/HOSA 10K Marathon Swimming World Cup
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Video of the 2015 24 Hour Swim Relay courtesy of Lisa Amorao, Cathy Harrington, Laura Leahy, Anne Whalen McLindon, Melissa King, and Suzie Dods from Aquatic Park in San Francisco Bay. “We have 80 swimmers this year who will swim from 9 am on Saturday to 9 am on Sunday,” explained Suzie Dods who created
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Courtesy of Paul Curado, Buzzards Bay Coalition, Massachusetts. New Bedford Harbor is nicknamed The Whaling City because during the 19th century, the city was one of the most important whaling ports in the world, along with Nantucket, Massachusetts and New London, Connecticut. Located along the south coast region of Massachusetts, the annual Buzzards Bay Swim
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