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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The Bodensee is a lake on the Rhine whose shores straddle the northern foot of the Alps and touch Germany, Switzerland and Austria. There are three recognized crossings of the lake: 1. 64 km lengthwise crossing (Bodensee-Längsquerungen) between Bodmann, Germany and Bregenz, Austria distance 64 km 2. 12 km […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. With the ongoing controversy over Russian usage of banned substances, Russian athletes have been unsure of their participation in the Rio Olympics. This weekend, the IOC announced that Russian athletes could not compete in the Olympics if they had ever been sanctioned for doping, even if the athlete had
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. On July 17th, Hamza Bakircioglu of Turkey finally achieved his goal in successfully completing a 64 km lengthwise crossing of the Bodensee between Germany and Austria. His fourth attempt took him 30 hours 45 minutes in the 21°C water. It was a long time coming as his previous three
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. In 1992 as a 35-year-old, Sally Minty-Gravett, M.B.E. first swam around Jersey Island in 10 hours 47, becoming the eleventh individual to complete the 66 km circumnavigation. “Her swim wasn’t actually initially planned as a Round Jersey Solo, but as a 10-hour training swim. As her pilot, I spoke
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Bárbara Hernández Huerta, a winter swimmer from Chile who won two gold medals at the 2016 Winter World Swimming Championships in Tyumen (Russia), was swimming along the O’Higgins Glacier in Chile when it started calving. Hernández, whose nickname is Sirena De Hielo, swam while the glacier was calving. As
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Aquatic adventurer Charlotte Brynn completed another border crossing swim: a 16.5-mile circumnavigation of Île Ronde in Québec, Canada. The out-and-back course on Lake Memphremagog that started and finished on the American side of the border in Newport, Vermont took her 7 hours 59 minutes. She swam north across the
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Today, Nilay Erkal of Turkey handily won the Bosphorus Cross-Continental Swim (Samsung Bosphorus Cross Continental Swimming Race or Samsung Boğazıçi Kitalararasi Yarislari or Samsung Boğaziçi Kıtalararası Yüzme Yarışı) in Turkey. The race saw people from all walks of life complete the swim, including 71-year-old Fatma İnci Okutan of Turkey
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Today, Ömer Tara handily won the Bosphorus Cross-Continental Swim (Samsung Bosphorus Cross Continental Swimming Race or Samsung Boğazıçi Kitalararasi Yarislari or Samsung Boğaziçi Kıtalararası Yüzme Yarışı) in Turkey. The race saw people from all walks of life complete the swim, including Levent Aksut, an 86-year-old open water swimmer from
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. When American Alex Meyer lines up against local favorite and two-time defending champion Xavier Desharnais in the 62nd annual Traversée internationale du lac St-Jean in Lac Saint-Jean, he will have a non-so-secret advantage. Paul Asmuth, a 7-time professional marathon swimming champion, 3-time Traversée winner, and a 2-time Olympic coach,
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