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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. 56-year-old Stephen Junk finds himself in rarified air among his channel swimming enthusiasts. Junk crossed off his sixth Oceans Seven channel with his latest crossing of the Molokai Channel earlier this month. He completed the Molokai Channel swim in 13 hours 50 minutes, hitting many jellyfish along the way. […]
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Courtesy of Rondi Davies, 20 Bridges Swim Around Manhattan, New York. Rondi Davies, David Barra, and Alex Arévalo announced the dates and registration information about the 2017 20 Bridges Swim Around Manhattan. “As many of you know, midway through the 2016 open water season, New York Open Water picked up the baton where NYC Swim
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Courtesy of Michael Ventre, New York to London Swim. Michael Ventre is training for his swim across the Atlantic Ocean as a charity swim to support Oxfam. His latest partner is Real Meal Revolution. “RMR is a household name in South Africa and promotes a nutritional lifestyle of eating reduced carbohydrates, sugar and processed foods
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Karen Burton Reeder was an American professional marathon swimmer and graduate of the Air Force Academy where she received a bachelor’s degree in Human Factor Engineering. After her career, she was honored by becoming a member of the Academy’s Wall of Fame [see above]. She was also inducted in
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Courtesy of Catalina Channel Swimming Federation, San Pedro Channel, California. Incredible perseverance paid off for Beth French yesterday, who traveled to Southern California from the United Kingdom to swim the Catalina Channel. She completed her crossing in 19 hours 7 minutes in 17°C (64°F) waters that dropped to 15°C (59°F) degrees off the California coast
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Michele Daschbach Fast was an American swimmer who grew up in Atherton, California. The youngest of six children and the University of California Santa Barbara graduate met her husband Patrick in college and raised their three children in Seal Beach. She swam every morning in Seal Beach, genuinely touching
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. In general, there are few sports where its athletes and enthusiasts know as much about water as open water swimmers. But that does not necessarily mean that open water swimmers are properly hydrated while training or on dryland. There is a wearable solution to monitoring one’s hydration levels. Kit
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Otto Kemmerich, Unassisted, Unafraid, Unprecedented Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Otto Kemmerich, born in 1886, was an outstanding pool and open water swimmer from Germany who was inducted in the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame in 1968 as an Honor Swimmer. A member of the German Olympic swim team, he was one of
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Photo of Sarah Thomas courtesy of Andrew Malinak on Lake Powell, Arizona-Utah border. Sarah Thomas‘s recent 81.8 mile (131.6 km) solo swim on Lake Powell has been described as iconic and inspirational, epic and intrepid. “While distance is the one parameter that the media and the swimming community has focused on, and rightly so, I
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Courtesy of Chris Lechner, Lake Michigan. Dr. Chris Lechner is a 56-year-old American hand surgeon, standup paddler and open water swimmer from Asheville, North Carolina. He has paddled solo 277 miles (446 km) along the French Broad River in North Carolina and attempted a solo, non-escorted 80-mile (128.7 km) open water swim across Lake Michigan
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