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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Nick Thomas, a 45-year-old British swimmer from Ellesmere in Shropshire, completed an English Channel crossing in 2014 with a wetsuit as part of the Enduroman Arch to Arc triathlon between London and Paris. Today, he was pulled unconscious from the Channel today less than a mile from his intended […]
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Courtesy of Phil White of the Northeast Kingdom Open Water Swimming Association, Caspian Lake, Vermont. Fighting off strong winds and big waves, 12-year-old Vera Rivard of Springfield, New Hampshire finished first overall in the Fifth Annual 3-mile Caspian Swim in 1 hour 25 minutes. 12 seconds behind was 63-year-old Bill Pease of Berkeley, California with
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Courtesy of Phil White of the Northeast Kingdom Open Water Swimming Association. At the Seventh Annual Lake Willoughby Swim on August 20th, 37-year-old Steve Hodgins won a quart of maple syrup and a six-pack of day tickets to Burke Mountain Ski Resort for cruising to the fastest time of the 5-mile race in 1 hour
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. On August 24th, Honoka Hasegawa (長谷川ほのか) is a 18-year-old Japanese open water swimmer who became the youngest person and fastest woman to cross the Tsugaru Channel between Honshu and Hokkaido in Japan in 8 hours 31 minutes. She began her crossing at 3:39 am in 23°C relatively calm waters.
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Yesterday, three legends of the open water had a day to remember. 65-year-old American Pat Gallant-Charette celebrated her 5th channelversary of her 15 hour 57 minute English Channel crossing, Australian Shelley Taylor-Smith celebrated her 21st channelversary of her 9 hour 27 minute English Channel crossing, and 82-year-old Spaniard Montserrat
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Imagine swimming every single day for over 27 years. That is exactly what swimmer, coach, author and sports psychologist Dr. Keith Bell has done over the past three decades. At 8:00 am on September 3rd, the 68-year-old from Austin, Texas will swim 10,000 yards to commemorate his 10,000th consecutive
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. British billionaire Richard Branson is planning to attempt a charity tandem swim together with popular American actor Adrian Grenier across the 3.2 km Strait of Messina in Italy in late September. But Branson’s preparation may be now in question due to a head-first, high-speed cycling crash on the British
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The Flathead Lake Swim Series consists of a 5 km swim on Friday night, a 10 km Flathead Lake Swim on Saturday morning, a 0.5-mile and a 1-mile swim held on Sunday morning in July at the Big Arm State Park in Montana. Neoprene and bioprene competitors participated in
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