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World Open Water Swimming Federation, a human-powered project
Courtesy of The Longest Swim by Ben Lecomte between Tokyo and San Francisco. Ben Lecomte will attempt a solo stage swim between Tokyo, Japan and San Francisco, California. He expects to start his transoceanic swim sometime in April 2017 and take at least 6 months of daily swims to work his way across the Pacific […]
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The Roads Crossed By Régent Lacoursière Photos of Régent Lacoursière with Johnny Weissmuller and Abdul Latif Abou-Heif, Esther Williams, Michael Phelps, Muhammad Ali, and Mark Spitz. Régent “Johnny” Lacoursière is a personable swimmer, passionate coach and creative aquapreneur who was inducted in the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame in 1978 as an Honour Swimmer.
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Taranath Narayan Shenoy is deaf and dumb, but his courage and will power has been clear throughout his career of three English Channel crossings, a Catalina Channel crossing, a Strait of Gibraltar crossing, and a Cook Strait crossing as well as two circumnavigation swims around Manhattan Island and the
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Photos of Jaimie Monahan courtesy of Arik Thormahlen. The WOWSA Awards are an annual selection of outstanding individuals and offerings in the following categories: World Open Water Swimming Man of the Year, World Open Water Swimming Woman of the Year, World Open Water Swimming Performance of the Year, and World Open Water Swimming Offering of
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The WOWSA Awards are an annual selection of outstanding individuals and offerings in the following categories: World Open Water Swimming Man of the Year, World Open Water Swimming Woman of the Year, World Open Water Swimming Performance of the Year, and World Open
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Sarah Thomas’ Lake Powell Marathon Is 2016 World Open Water Swimming Performance Of The Year Courtesy of Marathon Swimmers Federation, Lake Powell, Arizona-Utah. Course map of Sarah Thomas‘ 80-mile (128.7 km) 56 hour 5 minute solo swim in Lake Powell is courtesy of Marathon Swimmers Federation, Lake Powell, Arizona-Utah. The WOWSA Awards are an annual
Samsung Bosphorus Cross-Continental Swim Is 2016 World Open Water Swimming Offering Of The Year Video courtesy of Türkiye Milli Olimpiyat Komitesi. Information courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The WOWSA Awards are an annual selection of outstanding individuals and offerings in the following categories: World Open Water Swimming Man of the Year, World Open Water
Courtesy of Amigos de las Aguas Abiertas, Honduras. Copyright © 2016 by World Open Water Swimming Association
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. With so many swimmers around the world attempting and completing unprecedented charity and environmental swims from the Southern Ocean to the North Pole and every ocean and nearly every sea between, their need and ability to communicate their missions and goals is similarly unprecedented in human history. Lewis Pugh
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. After completing a lake (Lake Pontchartrain in Louisiana in 14 hours 55 minutes), river (76.4 km descent of the Colorado River through Canyonlands in Colorado in 13 hours 56 minutes), and a sea swim (38 km from the island of Culebra to Fajardo in Puerto Rico in 12 hours
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