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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Olympic champion Michael Phelps is renowned for working out extraordinarily hard while eating 12,000+ calories per day. Back in the 1930s, International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame Honour Swimmer Marvin Nelson was the Michael Phelps of his era. After the 1933 Canadian National Exhibition race in Toronto, Canada, reporter […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Much of the information in the Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame and Openwaterpedia on marathon swimmers before the 1980s is based on the work and records of Joe Grossman. Steven Munatones says, “He is a giant in the sport of professional marathon swimming in the 20th century. Joe was
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. 123 lb. Stanislas Raczynski traveled a long way from his native Leudon en Brie in north-central France to Lone Star Lake in Kansas. The freshman freestyler is now studying Computer Information at Emmanuel College in Georgia and soon found himself standing on the shoreline of a lake in the
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Photo of Haley Bishop (left) and Libby Walker (right) courtesy of University of Kansas, Lone Star Lake, Lawrence, Kansas. While the University of Kansas has enjoyed a long successful history in collegiate basketball and track and field, swimming has rarely come to the surface at the institution of over 28,000 students. Over its history in
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Courtesy of Andy Newman of Florida Keys News Bureau, Swim For Alligator Light, Islamorada, Florida. Noah Zhang and Alison Hayden won the 9.2-mile (14.8 km) Swim for Alligator Lighthouse today in Islamorada in the Florida Keys. The marathon swim took soloists and relays (duos and quads) from Islamorada, Florida around the Alligator Lighthouse and back.
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Deb Roberts, David Dammerman, Roy Ketring, Chris Bowcutt and Bob Singer were swimming together in Lake George, New York [see photo above]. “Why not swim from shore-to-shore, the length of the lake?” they asked each other. That was the impetus for the start of the 32-milr (51.5 km) overnight
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Resurface Documentary Trailer from Eric Alexander-Hughes on Vimeo.Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Today, Wallace J. Nichols, Ph.D., launched Blue Mind Rx, a campaign to change the conversation about the true value of healthy, wild waters for good, and for all people. “The launch coincides with the United States Department of State’s Our Ocean Conference.
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The 52nd annual International Swimming Hall of Fame Honors Weekend on October 28th-30th in America’s Top Swim City, Santa Clara, California. “Coming as it will after the Rio Olympic Games,” says ISHOF Chief Executive Officer Bruce Wigo. “We believe that it will provide a great opportunity to promote swimming and the new Santa Clara Community
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