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Courtesy of WOWSA, Burghausen, Germany. On Day One of the 2017 Ice Swimming Aqua Sphere World Championships in Burghausen, Germany, the sun was out only to give way to air temperatures that plunged down to -11°C (12°F). On Day Two of the championships that attracted athletes from 62-year-old Jackie Cobell to 4-time Olympian Petar Stoychev, […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The 43rd Maratón Acuática Internacional Santa Fe – Coronda will be held on February 5th in Argentina with 16 women and 14 men from Argentina, Italy, Brazil, Macedonia, Czech Republic, France, Russia and Venezuela to kickoff the FINA Open Water Swimming Grand Prix circuit for 2017. “It is great
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. An emerging group of fast young ice swimmers including Conor Turner of Ireland, Fergil Hesterman of the Netherlands, Petr Šlajs of the Czech Republic, and Tobias Wybierek of Germany on the men’s side and Ines Hahn of Germany, Victoria Mori of Argentina, and Elina Makïnen of Finland on the
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. With the ice and snow creeping closer and closer to the ice swimmers competing in the frozen Lake Wöhrsee at the 2017 Ice Swimming Aqua Sphere World Championships in Burghausen, Germany, it is interesting to see how many swimmers wear Crocs in and out of the water. Easier to
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California The community of ice swimmers gathering in Lake Wöhrsee in the German town of Burghausen in Bavaria was envisioned by German ice swimming star Christof Wandratsch, his coach Stefan Hetzer, his friend and supporter Fritz Kreutzpointner, and Mayor Hans Steindl. “Similar to the city of Roth in Germany that
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Courtesy of WOWSA in Burghausen in Bavaria, Germany Hilltop view of the frozen Lake Wöhrsee and the venue at the 2017 Ice Swimming Aqua Sphere World Championships in the town of Burghausen in Bavaria, Germany. Lake Wöhrsee is about 900 meters in length with an average depth of 3.7 meters. The stream St. Johannser Mühlbach
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Young swimmers were just as tough as their older counterparts at the Ice Swimming Aqua Sphere World Championships in Burghausen, Germany yesterday in the showcase 1000m event held in 2-3°C water conditions and minus air temperatures. Julia Wittig came into the world championship ice swimming event as the pre-race
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Burghausen, Germany. Julia Wittig came into the world championship ice swimming event as the pre-race favorite and did not disappoint the raucous crowd in her hometown of Burghausen. In the same location that Wittig had previously tied the ice kilometer world record of 13 minutes 58 seconds by Sabrina Wiedmer of Switzerland,
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Courtesy of Ryan Stramrood of the International Ice Swimming Association explains his pre-race preparations at the Ice Swimming Aqua Sphere World Championships in Burghausen, Germany. Ask an athlete to run across a desert or cycle for long distances or perform other extreme physiological feats and most good athletes could continue for a while before they
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Petar Stoychev is the epitome of how truly flexible and amazingly adaptable open water swimmers are. Not only did Stoychev win the 2011 FINA World Championships in Shanghai, China in incredibly warm and miserably humid conditions (over 31°C or 88°F+), but he is also one of today’s pre-race favorites
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