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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. In the build-up to the 2016 Rio Olympic Games, Japanese 10 km marathon swim qualifiers Yasunari Hirai and Yumi Kida are being celebrated by the Japanese media. Copyright © 2016 by World Open Water Swimming Association
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. As open water swimmers take to colder and colder waters with the International Winter Swimming Association World Cup and the International Ice Swimming Association ice kilometer and ice mile events, it also seems the swimmers are going further, enduring tougher swims, and getting older. Colder. Further. Tougher. Older. There
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Race directors David Barra and Rondi Davies, in collaboration New York Open Water, will present the longest swimming race in the world between June 26th through July 3: the 6th annual 7-day, 7-stage 8 Bridges Hudson River Swim. As Barra is fond of saying, “Anything worth doing is worth
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. “It’s on,” reports Phil White. “The open water swim season in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont got under way on June 18th. Five swimmers – all women – set out from Prouty Beach under sunny skies, light winds, air temperatures rising into the 70’ºFs and 80’ºFs and water temps
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Courtesy of Andrej Steiner-Bandi, a Croatian butterflyer in Brač-Sutivan, Croatia.
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Over 3,000 signatories know the unexpected is expected in the open water. No one expected South African Natalie du Toit to qualify for the 2008 Olympic 10K Marathon Swim final…with only one leg. No one believed Maarten van der Weijden to win the 2012 Olympic 10K Marathon Swim…after coming
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Toni Enderli is a typically tough South African open water swimmer, ice swimmer, and channel swimmer. Similar to many of his South African colleagues, he is entrepreneurial, versatile, and adventurous. Besides his ice mile, he has completed an 8 km Swim For Hope around Cape Point in South Africa
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. “I’ve leveraged our 69 years of relationships in Barrington and the Chicago area, to support Doug and his commitment to finding a Cure for ALS. I remember when we first met, asking him why he did these outrageous swims. He answered, “Because I can still use my arms and
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Jose Luis Larrosa broke the course record of American Lexie Kelly with his victorious swim at the 21 km Tabarca Marathon Swim (Maratón Acuático Tabarca-Alicante) between Tabarca Island and Alicante city off the Mediterranean coast in Spain. 51 swimmers started, 49 finished as 5 safety boats, 6 Jet Skiers,
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. There is a long history of open water swimming in the New York Finger Lakes. But last year Bridgette Hobart brought it to the attention of contemporary swimmers and energized the local community when she completed the Nazareth College Finger Lakes Challenge (or The 5 Majors & The 4
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