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World Open Water Swimming Federation, a human-powered project
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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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Chris Morgan, a 2008 Olympic swimming coach, teaches his athletes about KAATSU training on dryland and KAATSU Aqua in the water including swimmers from Olympic swimming medalists and Olympic Trials finalists to masters swimmers (24- 75 years), competitive age group swimmers and collegiate swimmers. KAATSU Aqua is beneficial for
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Courtesy of Sarah Thomas, Lake Powell on the Arizona-Utah border. Sarah Thomas of Colorado started right on schedule and is swimming 81.8 miles (131.6 km) over the next 50-64 hours in Lake Powell. “The water temperature report was 68°F (20°C). The cold front cooled things off quite a bit,” said Thomas before the start. Her
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Courtesy of Sarah Thomas, Lake Powell on the Arizona- Utah border. Sarah Thomas of Colorado has quite a resume of marathon swims around the world. But if there is a sweet spot in her resume, it is long lake swims including Loch Ness, Lake Tahoe, and Lake Memphremagog. She has another major lake swim planned
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Both Ben’s were scheduled to start their transoceanic swim last year, but both Ben’s delayed their swims. Ben Hooper delayed his transatlantic solo stage swim between Senegal and Brazil until November 2016 (Swim The Big Blue) and Ben Lecomte has delayed his transpacific solo stage swim between Tokyo and
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Psychoswimography: Santa Barbara courtesy of creator Vanessa Daws, California.
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Vanessa Daws is a British visual artist and open water swimmer living in Dublin, Ireland. Her art practice explores place through swimming and was embodied by The Lambay Swim Trilogy. The Lambay Swim Trilogy included three swims over a 3-year art project that Daws made into film and sound
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Arleen Gonzalez Perez of Mexico City completed a circumnavigation of Manhattan in 8 hours 16 minutes at the 45.8 km 20 Bridges Circumnavigation Swim of Manhattan on October 1st. This was her second circumnavigation of Manhattan Island, the first coming in 2015. Her goal was to complete all legs
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The Swim Kid, The Official Dan Canta Story is an Akkordien Films Production and film about Dan Canta, a 17-year-old Romanian open water swimmer who lives in Melbourne, Australia. With his victory at the 45.8 km 20 Bridges Circumnavigation Swim of Manhattan in New York City in 7 hours
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