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World Open Water Swimming Federation, a human-powered project
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Most open water swimmers have a bucket list of swims they want to do. Their swims can be a channel crossing or an unprecedented lake swim or an ice mile. Whether it was a competitive swimmer of the 1970s or nowadays with a contemporary masters swimmer, Conrad Wennerberg‘s authoritative […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Robert Cossette and Christine Cossette of Canada are the only father-daughter duo who has been inducted in the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame. Interestingly, Christine-the-daughter (1982) was inducted before Robert-the-father (2004). In 1984, the 22-year-old Christine delighted her fellow Québécois when she became the first person to complete
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. On October 3rd, 31-year-old Tadeusz Golembiewski, 37-year-old Ana Villanueva, 28-year-old Adrian Roszak, and 43-year-old Grzegorz Monczak crossed the Strait of Gibraltar, landing in Punta Cires in Morocco, in a tandem swim of 4 hours 15 minutes. With a light Force 2 westerly swell in 19°C water, the quad of
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. George Duthie was a Canadian open water swimming event director who was inducted in the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame in 1966 as an Honour Administrator. Duthie organized the famous professional Canadian National Exhibition swims until 1968 as the Canadian National Exhibition Manager of Sports Department and was
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Courtesy of Lucky Meisenheimer, Lake Cane, Florida. Gene Augustin holds the 80-84 year age group record for crossing Lake Cane in Orlando, Florida. He is the oldest person to complete 1 km Lucky’s Lake Swim. But he just broke his own record and set the 85-89 age group lake swim record with a time of
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Courtesy of Ger Kennedy and Bolot Bochkarev, Yakutsk, Russia. Yakutsk in the Sakha Republic, Russia, located about 450 km south of the Arctic Circle, was the site of Irish ice swimmer Ger Kennedy‘s most hardy and risk-taking open water adventure. After his ice mile and other ice swimming endeavors performed on the surface of the
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Courtesy of Fergal Somerville, North Channel, California. Pat Gallant-Charette, an American nurse extraordinaire, continues to raise the bar and push the envelope what older swimmers can do. At the age of 65 years and 204 days, she completed one of the most remarkable swims of 2016. Three years after she swam for nearly 17 hours
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. “#20 swim done,” wrote Chloë McCardel. “Done!! New Aussie Record!! [Husband] Paul [McQueeney] and I are very excited. 10 hrs 19 min.” The 31-year-old from Australia broke the long-standing English Channel crossing career record of fellow Hall of Famer Des Renford and Canada’s Hall of Famer Cindy Nicholas‘ also
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Several nations (e.g., USA, Hungary, Brazil, Tunisia, Japan, China, Switzerland) used KAATSU equipment in the preparation of, and recovery from, their competitions at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games as well as in the 2014 Sochi Olympics. The athletes not only included competitive swimmers, open water swimmers, triathletes, and water
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Courtesy of Jamie Patrick of Adventure Swimmer Productions in association with Sea Nymph Films on Sarah Thomas‘ unprecedented 81.8-mile (131.6 km) crossing of Lake Powell along the Arizona-Utah border in the western USA on October 4th-6th 2016 in 56 hours 5 minutes. Jamie Patrick of Adventure Swimmer Productions explains, “I am extremely excited to share
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