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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Jaimie Monahan just returned home to New York City from another one of her many international competitions in time to hear about the Marathon Swimmers Federation honoring her with its Barra Award for Best Overall Year. The Barra Award for Best Overall Year is named after David Barra and […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Burghausen, Germany. One of the most enjoyable aspects at the 2017 Ice Swimming Aqua Sphere World Championships in Burghausen, Germany, was the music and race commentary that was being constantly offered during the competition. The music ranged from solemn, slow beats when the swimmers were walking on deck before their races to
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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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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Together with Jeff Miller of the Virgin Islands and Greg O’Connor of Massachusetts, New Yorker Lori King was nominated for the 2016 Yudovin Award for Most Adventurous Swim. King, who replicated a circumnavigation first done 40 years ago, took 21 hours 19 minutes to complete a 36.5-mile circumnavigation swim
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Together with New York volunteer Roy Malinak and British swimmer, mentor, crew and pilot Samantha Jones, the members of the New York Open Water (David Barra, Rondi Davies, and Alex Arévalo) were nominated for the 2016 Streeter Award for Service to Marathon Swimming. The trio of the New York
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Burghausen, Germany. Ines Hahn [shown on left] tried her hand on the professional marathon swimming circuit, competing from Cancun, Mexico to Quebec, Canada. But the 25-year-old from Germany has really found her niche in ice swimming; the cold is clearly her realm of expertise. She was non-stop at the 2017 Ice Swimming
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Courtesy of www.hd-production.at at the Ice Swimming Aqua Sphere World Championships in Burghausen, Germany. “I have seen swimming at the Olympics, world championships, FINA competitions, NCAA events, solo marathon swims, ultra-marathon relays, and extreme swims of various types all over the world, but nothing was as impressive and inspirational as the swims at the Ice
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Team Help! completed 1,223 km of its 2,500 km stage swim down Australia’s longest river, the River Murray. Hunter Helmick has swum the entire 1,223 km distance to date while father Eric Helmick has taken on the role of coach having swum 600 km alongside his son Hunter. “We’re
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Burghausen, Germany. Jacques Tuset is one tough, adventurous guy. Training in the south of France, Tuset traveled up to the Ice Swimming Aqua Sphere World Championships in Burghausen, Germany to attempt his first ice kilometer. He jumped into the outer lane, closest to the encroaching surface ice, and finished in 15 minutes
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