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World Open Water Swimming Federation, a human-powered project
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Chloë McCardel continues to plow ahead towards Alison Streeter’s legendary 43 English Channel crossings record. With yesterday’s 10 hour 29 minute crossing, she has swum across the English Channel eight times this season with Reg Brickell Jr. as her escort pilot and a total of 14 over the last […]
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Courtesy of Summer of Surf, Huntington Beach, California. Naomi Scott, Jemma Smith [also shown below in the Ironman race] and Alexandra Nolan captured the top three places at the women’s final race at the Redhead Surf Swim on the 2017 Summer of Surf that showcases Australian watermen and waterwomen of Australia in the water and
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Courtesy of Swim Cruise, Adriatic Sea, Croatia. Ivan Vranjes and Mateo Juric announced that former professional marathon swimmer Lexie Kelly will join their 9-day, 8-night Swim Cruise as a guide and coach. From June 10th-18th 2017, Kelly and the crew and swimmers will start from the city of Split and travel around central Dalmatian islands
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. University of Tennessee coach Tyler Fenwick who has coached Olympic swimmers discussed training for open water swimming during the fourth session of the 2016 Global Swimming Summit. Over 48 minutes of discussion, Fenwick started off and described how Tennessee is an open water swimming hub. Because Fenwick focuses on
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Tri Specific‘s Kristian Manietta of Australia was interviewed about swimming training and how not to denegrate the rest of the triathlete’s training during the third session of the 2016 Global Swimming Summit. Coach Manietta reiterated his perspectives during the 38-minute interview. “Triathletes should not think of swimming as the
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. “No butterfly, backstroke or breaststroke,” says host Chris Ritter of Ritter Sports Performance who interviewed Tower 26 founder Gerry Rodrigues about open water swimming for triathletes during the first 58-minute session of the 2016 Global Swimming Summit. “Just freestyle…for a newbie or triathlete or a competitive swimmer hoping to
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Atlantic City is a seaside community on Absecon Island in New Jersey that was the site of the 22.5-mile Atlantic City Around the Island Swim professional marathon swims of the 1950’s, 1960’s, 1970’s, 1980’s and 1990’s that attracted the créme de la créme of those eras. But each and
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Courtesy of Swim Challenge Cascais, Cascais, Portugal.
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Nejib Belhedi keeps increasing his weight…pulled. On October 23rd, he pulled three boats, weighing a collective 100 tons, 550 meters in 32 minutes 30 minutes through the Bizerta Channel as part of his World Iron Swim Series in Tunisia. This attempt broke his previous World Iron Swim record where
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