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World Open Water Swimming Federation, a human-powered project
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Paul Lecomte is the Project Manager of The Longest Swim by his uncle Benoît Lecomte. Arguably, he is responsible for coordinating the largest and longest citizen science project in an open water swim. There will be over 1,000 scientific samples collected to support the work of researchers from 12 […]
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Courtesy of Adam Walker. The more turbulent the conditions become in the open water, the more important a still head position anchored by a firm backbone and firm core become in order be as streamlined as possible in the open water. Adam Walker talks about the importance of a still head in the open water
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Courtesy of Hank Wise, Huntington Beach, California. Hank Wise is planning to do his fifth Catalina Channel crossing in November this year. The Stanford graduate completed his first crossing from Catalina-to-the-mainland in an 8 hour 7 minute crossing in 2010 and was only 34 seconds slower in a mainland-to-Catalina crossing in 8 hours 7 minutes
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Chris Morgan, a 2008 Olympic swimming coach, teaches and advises a number of athletes about KAATSU training on dryland and KAATSU Aqua from Olympic pool and open water swimming medalists and Olympic Trials finalists to masters swimmers (24-75 years), competitive age group swimmers and collegiate swimmers. “KAATSU Aqua is
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Photos courtesy of Andrew Malinak, Marathon Swimmers Federation, California. With online viewers from around the world looking on, a Desitin– and lanolin-covered Sarah Thomas steadily and powerfully walked up a boat dock on Wahweap Marina in Lake Powell along the Arizona-Utah border in the western United States. She not only spoke calmly to her supporters,
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Sarah Thomas has been swimming in Lake Powell on the Arizona-Utah border for 45 hours 34 minutes (as of this posting), traversing 108.5 km (67.4 miles) through one of the most colorful and scenic lakes in the American West. She is closing in on swimming non-stop into her third
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Ion Lazarenco Tiron is a global aquatic adventurer. The native Moldavian living in Ireland has not only completed an 8-day 235 km Swimming Marathon Nistru stage swim, but he has also completed an Ice Mile swim in 3.3ºC (37.9ºF) water, an English Channel crossing in 13 hours 34 minutes,
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. 56-year-old Stephen Junk is now in rarified air in the channel swimming world. Junk crossed off his sixth Oceans Seven channel today with a tough crossing of the Molokai Channel. He completed the Molokai Channel swim today in 13 hour 50 minutes on the same day that Ion Lazarenco
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Two-time Olympic marathon swimmer Yasunari Hirai expresses himself after winning his fifth Japanese title at the 92nd annual Japanese Swimming Championships held in the 2020 Tokyo Olympic venue in Odaiba Marine Park in Tokyo Bay. Copyright © 2016 by World Open Water Swimming Association
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Hirai Wins Fifth Japanese Title In 2020 Olympic Venue Courtesy of WOWSA, Odaiba Marine Park, Tokyo Bay, Japan. Four years from now, we will know the 2020 Tokyo Olympic medalists in the 10 km marathon swim. They will compete at the Odaiba Marine Park in Tokyo Bay. On September 25th, Yasunari Hirai won another Japanese
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