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World Open Water Swimming Federation, a human-powered project
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Caroline Block is a 32-year-old American anthropologist from Baltimore, Maryland who completed two Oceans Seven channel swims this summer within six weeks. Her English Channel swim was completed in 11 hours 52 minutes; her North Channel crossing was finished in 14 hours 31 minutes, escorted by Pádraig Mallon of […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. All kinds of open water swimmers from various walks of life were honored during this weekend’s International Swimming Hall of Fame Honoree Enshrinement ceremonies in Santa Clara, California. The weekend kicked off when Kate Rew received the Paragon Award for Recreational Swimming. This recognition makes complete sense with the
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Sabrina Wiedmer has been ramping up her swimming and really came into her own during 2016. Early in the year during winter, she tied the existing women’s world record in the 1 km ice swim with a 13 minute 58 second effort in January in Wild Water Armagh in
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Ingemar Patiño Macarine, nicknamed the Pinoy Aquaman, had quite a year in 2016. The Filipino attorney not only pioneered five unprecedented channel swims during the year, but received much national recognition for his ocean advocacy efforts. January 17th: He became the first person to cross from Sumilom Island to
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. After squeezing in her record-setting eighth crossing of the season in English Channel in 10 hours 29 minutes, Reg Brickell Jr. hustled Chloë McCardel back from France to England with her husband Paul McQueeney. They soon whisked off to the airport in order to catch their next flight to
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. At the 2016 British Swimming Coaches Association Conference last weekend, the Youth Coach of the Year award was presented to former professional marathon swimmer Alan Bircher. Bircher, who is currently coaching at Ellesmere College and a FINIS Coach Ambassador, is shown with his wife Stefanie Bircher née Biller and
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Illustration by Petra Zeiler for Outside Magazine. Dan Roe penned an interesting article in Outside Magazine called Ranking the World’s Toughest Outdoor Sports. The article focused on a comparison of rock climbing, downhill mountain biking, Nordic skiing, ultra-running and open water swimming. In order to complete the rankings of the world’s toughest outdoor sports, including
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