Swimming the Dead Sea – Swapping Ice for Salt
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FINA’s Financial Strength And Uses Of Money
Courtesy of George Block, World Swimming Coaches Association. In this era where a handful of pool swimmers earning millions of United States dollars for their accomplishments and achievements and numerous other competitive pool and open water swimmers earn enough money to define themselves as professional athletes, George Block of the World Swimming Coaches Association compiled
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Rafael Gil And Vânia Neve Are Honored In Portugal
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The Portuguese Swimming Federation (Federação Portuguesa de Natação) announced its annual awards in Porto over the last weekend. Open Water Swimming Coach of the Year honors went to Rui Borges while the Open Water Swimming Official of the Year was given to Alexandre Fernandes. The Open Water Male Swimmer
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Crossing For The Alexa Trust
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Howard James (née Keech) did the improbable. James accomplished the unprecedented. James opened and closed the books on the English Channel crossing season this year in an historically unparalleled fashion. On May 16th, James completed the earliest crossing of the English Channel in 13 hours 13 minutes, a record
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Photos courtesy of Annie-Claude Roberge, Strait of Gibraltar, Spain to Morocco. When Rohan More crossed off his sixth channel of the Oceans Seven, he joined a small fraternity of renowned channel swimmers. Among those who have completed the Oceans Seven (i.e., Stephen Redmond, Anna-Carin Nordin, Michelle Macy, Darren Miller, Adam Walker, Kimberly Chambers), no one
Ferry Weertman To Return To Copacabana Beach
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Ferry Weertman swam the most dramatic, most exciting, most impressive race of his life in winning the 10 km marathon swim at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games. His out-touching of Greek silver medalist Spyridon Gianniotis represented the closest race during his short, but storied, career. Weertman will return to
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2016 National Coaches Clinic Program
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The United States Masters Swimming National Coaches Clinic will be held between November 11th-13th in the College of San Mateo, California. The schedule is as follows: Friday, November 11th: 2:00 – 5:00 pm Open Water, From Start to Finish by Steven Munatones 5:30 – 8:30 pm Team Building Discussion:
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Alex Kostich’s Streaks Continue From Caribbean To Pacific
Photos courtesy of Steve Simonsen, St. Croix Coral Reef Swim, U.S. Virgin Islands. Alex Kostich continues another one of his historically long streaks in St. Croix. In September, Kostich extended one of the most remarkable streaks in the competitive open water swimming world: 24 consecutive years of Top 10 finishes at the annual 2.4-mile (3.8
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Jaimie Monahan, Marathoning Around The World
Photos of Jaimie Monahan courtesy of Arik Thormahlen. Jaimie Monahan is off again as she heads to compete in the opening winter swimming event of the 2016-2017 season at the International Winter Swimming Association 8th Jelgavas Roni Cup in Jelgava, Latvia. If Monahan’s upcoming swim season will be anything like her 2016 season, she is
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