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World Open Water Swimming Federation, a human-powered project
Courtesy of Infinity Channel Swimming and Piloting Services, North Channel between Northern Ireland and Scotland. “18 days after completing her English Channel crossing, Caroline Block from the U.S.A. completed a successful 21-mile crossing the North Channel, starting in Northern Ireland and making landfall in Scotland to a sky full of stars in the early hours […]
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Mina Rhoden Completes A Widthwise Lake Tahoe Crossing Courtesy of Suzie Dods, Lake Tahoe, California. Escorted by Suzie Dods and piloted by Tom Linthicum, a pair of friends attempted a widthwise crossing of Lake Tahoe. In her first marathon swimming attempt, Mina Rhoden from Novato, California completed her Lake Tahoe crossing in 10 hours 55
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Sean Ryan, California. Sean Ryan from Tennessee is definitely a medal favorite in the men’s Olympic 10K Marathon Swim at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games. The fourth place finisher in the 10 km at the 2015 FINA World Championships is outside the global media’s radar, especially with flashier and more well-known competitors
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Courtesy of the Olympic Club of San Francisco, 2016 Trans Tahoe Relay. The final official results of the top 25 teams at the 2016 Trans Tahoe Relay are listed below (with the names of each team captain, overall time and pace per mile). The 210 team names ranged from Team Lake Flaccid (with Stephen Poulios
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The Jurassic Coast is a World Heritage Site on the English Channel coast of southern England. The area was featured on the television Seven Natural Wonders as one of the wonders of southwest UK and was named in a 2005 poll as the fifth-greatest natural wonder in Britain. It
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. John Mathews was born October 13th 1953 in West Haven, Connecticut. Before he passed away, Mathews’ career took him to New York, Houston, Dallas, Los Angeles and San Francisco with his wife Lisa and four children. In the last 10 years of his life, Mathews was a financial advisor
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Simma med Stjärnorna – The Power of Swimming Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Martin Cedergren of the Swedish Swimming Federation recently launched a virtual reality project “The Power of Swimming” (Simma med Stjärnorna) to help hydrophobic children learn to swim. “The background is a bit scary; one in five Swedish children cannot swim despite
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Swimming Canada continues to provide open water swimming opportunities for their next generation of elite distance freestyle swimmers. 15-year-old Chantel Jeffrey won the girls 14-18 5 km event at the Canadian Age Group Championships in Calgary on Monday. Jeffrey, who also won the 1500m freestyle in the pool, finished
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