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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Throughout the 2016 European Open Water Swimming Championships in Hoorn, Netherlands, Team Italy has shown its dominance and depth. The talents of the Italians culminated in the 5 km team trial event. 5 km Team Trial results: 1. Italy (Rachele Bruni + Simone Ruffini + Federico Vanelli) 55:59.3 2. […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Ligue Européenne de Natation (LEN), selected Budapest as its host of the 2020 European Championships. While pool swimming, diving, synchronized swimming, and diving will be held in May, the open water swimming events will be conducted in June in Lake Balaton for both the elite swimmers and the masters
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Courtesy of Adrian Sarchet of Guernsey. Adrian Sarchet completed a 17 hour 24 minute crossing of the Molokai Channel on July 11th. Under the escort of Captain Michael Twigg-Smith and escort kayaker Jeff Kozlovich, Sarchet’s fifth Oceans Seven crossing was universally described as brutal. Sarchet provides the details of his swim below. “I said last
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Kiss Goodbye to MS With Thomas Pembroke Courtesy of WOWSA, Molokai Channel, Hawaii. Thomas Pembrooke, a school teacher from Australia, completed a crossing of the Molokai Channel to complete his fourth Oceans Seven channel (English, North, Catalina, Molokai) under the guidance of Jeff Kozlovich. For each of his channel swims, he raises money and awareness
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Courtesy of Michael Twigg-Smith, Kaiwi Channel, Hawaii. Adrian Sarchet completed a 17 hour 24 minute crossing of the Molokai Channel on July 11th. Captain Michael Twigg-Smith reported, “It was a brutal swim for him. The conditions were close to ideal, but there was a nagging current pushing to the south all the way from the
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Kristel Köbrich missed the final cut for the Olympic 10K Marathon Swim this summer, but she qualified for her fourth Olympic Games (2004, 2008, 2012, 2016) and will compete in the 800m freestyle for her native Chile. Copyright © 2016 by World Open Water Swimming Association
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. In 1991, Australian Shelley Taylor-Smith won the overall title for the World Professional Marathon Swimming Federation. She was the top swimmer among all the male and female participants in the professional series of marathon races that ranged from the Maratona del Golfo Capri-Napoli in Italy to the Traversée internationale
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Courtesy of CUNY TV’s Study With The Best with Dr. Jane Katz. Study With the Best is by CUNY TV. This magazine show focuses on the best and brightest professors, alumni, and programs that CUNY has to offer students, delving into a CUNY system that contains over 500,000 students and a wide and divergent alumni
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. In 1989, there were 64 men and 4 women in the first Samsung Intercontinental Bosphorus Swimming Competition. Now, 3,800 swimmers applied to the race from Asia to Europe our first race in 1989 and 2,000 swimmers from 52 countries will have the same chance to swim from Asia to
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Courtesy of Gerry Rodrigues, Tower 26, Santa Monica, California. Be Race Ready podcast episode #12 is posted online. Coach Gerry Rodrigues discusses the essentials of open water swimming (Part 2), 3 F’s, and the importance of specificity in the pool and open water. Tower 26’s Rodrigues describes his coaching concept of the 3 F’s: Fear,
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