Swimming Into And Over One Another In The Open Water
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Adam Eilath To Attempt 8 Bridges West Coast Edition
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Adam Eilath will attempt to break one of the longest standing records in the open water swimming world. The 28-year-old Israeli will attempt to break Suzanne Heim-Bowen‘s record of 6 crossings of the Golden Gate Bridge. He will attempt to cross the channel underneath the Golden Gate Bridge 8
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How Old Can They Go? Very Old
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. We are quite confident that the record books will be completely rewritten over the next 20-30 years in terms of the healthful longevity of open water swimmers. At this time, 73-year-old Dr. Otto Thaning (South Africa), 70-year-old Cyril Baldock (Australia) and 70-year-old Dr. Roger Allsopp (Great Britain) are the
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Liz Fry, Marcy MacDonald Double Down Across Molokai
Courtesy of Hawaii News Now at the Molokai Channel and Linda Kaiser of Ka’iwi Channel Swimmers Association. Swimming across the 42 km Molokai Channel is hard enough. Doing it at the pace of another swimmer is doubly hard. But nothing gets past channel veterans Elizabeth Fry and Dr Marcy MacDonald.* The duo went stroke-for-stroke and
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Aurélie Muller, Sharon Van Rouwendaal Training Partners, Racing Rivals
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Aurélie Muller and Sharon Van Rouwendaal come from different countries (France and the Netherlands), but they train and race together. And their swimming styles appear – at least over the surface of the water – to be remarkably the same [shown above with right hands over the surface of
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Feeding Pressure On Open Water Swimming Coaches
Courtesy of WOWSA at the USA Swimming National Open Water Swimming Championships, Fort Myers, Florida. Where does one stand to feed open water swimmers at the Olympics or World Championships or any one of hundreds of marathon swimming? It is all a matter of personal preference among open water swimmers and coaches. Some athletes prefer
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