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Photo courtesy of the Boston Globe. Individuals inducted in the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame are not always swimmers, coaches or pilots. Honorees like Jerry Nason have contributed mightily to the sport via their profound understanding of endurance sports and their writing talents. Nason was an American marathon runner and sports writer from Winchester, […]
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Courtesy of Masayuki Moriya, Ocean Navi, Japan. In his younger days, Toshio Tominaga (富永俊夫 in Japanese) played water polo and swam in school. He was competitive, but then he began his professional career at a Japanese electronics corporation. As the intervening decades passed, Tominaga stayed in good shape, but he had to dramatically reduce the
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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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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. We love it when Olympic athletes and elite pool swimmers profess and demonstrate their love for the open water. It does not matter if their interest is sailing (Ky Hurst of Australia), ocean swimming (Rebecca Soni of the USA), event management (Sandy Neilson-Bell of the USA), learn-to-swim teaching (Shane
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. 60 of the world’s greatest distance and sprint swimmers raced in the 15.5°C (60°F) waters of Lake Ontario at the 9th annual World’s Champion Swim Marathon held at the Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto, Canada on September 1st 1936. Francis ‘Frank] Pritchard, an Honour Swimmer inducted in the International
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Courtesy of Ger Kennedy, Petrified Forest 6 km Open Sea Swim, East Coast of Ireland Open Water. East Coast of Ireland Open Water Swimming was formed to share its passion of its open water swimmers with athletes of a wide variety, from wetsuiters to those who swim in skins. Its most recent and newest event
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