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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The Straits of Florida between Cuba and Florida has been the site of many solo swim attempts since 1950. These adventurous swimmers have included Jose Cortinas, Leo Vigil, Rolando Elejalde, Luciana Nunez, Walter Poenisch, Susie Maroney [shown on left], Skip Storch, Chris Green, Diana Nyad, Penny Palfrey and Chloë […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. With President-elect Donald Trump taking control of the U.S. federal government in a week, this photo showing Alex Meyer with President Barack Obama and Vice President Joseph Biden is fitting. Both Meyer, President Obama and Vice President Biden are leaving their respective worlds. While the politicians have not yet
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Howard James (née Keech) was announced today as the winner of the Solo Swim of the Year (male) by the Marathon Swimmers Federation for his English Channel on May 16th 2016, the earliest crossing in history, breaking the previously held record by Kevin Murphy by 13 days. “Howard has
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Video courtesy of Jamie Patrick of Adventure Swimmer Productions in association with Sea Nymph Films. American Sarah Thomas of Colorado swept two awards this year by popular demand. Earlier, she won the 2016 World Open Water Swimming Performance of the Year. Today, she was announced as the winner of the Solo Swim of the Year
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Ouma Gives Rise To Iron Swim & Open Water Conference Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Majdouline Cherni, the Minister of Youth and Sports of Tunisia, honored Nejib Belhedi as the Tunisian winner of the World Man of the Year 2016 in the aftermath of being voted as the 2016 World Open Water Swimming Man
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. In the second half of Penny Palfrey‘s 109 km (68-mile) swim from Little Cayman to Grand Cayman that took 40 hours 41 minutes in 2011, a helicopter delivered a tub of chocolate ice cream to her escort boat, the Carib Princess. The cold chocolate ice cream was a welcomed
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Photo courtesy of Phil White, Kingdom Games, Vermont. American swimmer Craig Dietz will return to participate in the aQuellé Midmar Mile in Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa once again. The Limbless Waterman was a guest swimmer in the past, but this year, the 42-year-old is stepping up his game. “I’ll be swimming all 8 miles for
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. When the new FINA rules [see here] governing the use of wetsuits at FINA 10K Marathon Swimming World Cup events, FINA Open Water Swimming Grand Prix events, and FINA World Championship races became effective on January 1st 2017, swimmers had to start looking to purchase the FINA-legal wetsuits for
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Courtesy of Gran Fondo Italia. Gran Fondo Italia now offers an English website here. The 2017 Gran Fondo Italia (or Circuit Gran Fondo Italia) is an open water swim series in Italy organized by Alessandro Pilati of Swimming in Open Water (NAL) with other Italian organizers that includes: * June 25th: 17 km Gran Fondo
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