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Courtesy of H2Open Magazine. Simon Griffiths, founder of H2Open Magazine, certainly talks the talk and walks the walk. He will swim 31 miles in 31 pools in the U.K. from February 25th to March 1st in a pretty intense charity stage swim. Griffiths is supported by a team from #TeamBETTER as a fund-raiser for Sport […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Last year, neoprening Katie Nimmo of the Cheltenham Swimming & Waterpolo Club (1:20.30) nearly knocked off bioprening Oliver Wilkinson of the Gloucester Masters (1:20.22) in the annual Brownsea Island Swim. Brownsea Island is the largest of 8 islands in Poole Harbour in the county of Dorset, England. The Brownsea
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Egyptian race organizer and influential FINA Technical Open Water Swimming Committee member Ayman Saad is treating the 134 athletes who are visiting Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates for this weekend’s FINA 10K Marathon Swimming World Cup extraordinarily well – unlike anywhere else on the FINA professional circuits
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Courtesy of Marisa Frieder, Huntington Beach, California. The Portland Bridge Swim will be held on July 10th as swimmers competed down the Willamette River in Oregon. Founded in 2011 with just 16 swimmers, the Portland Bridge Swim is a 10.7-mile (17.2 km) race through the heart of downtown Portland. The swim is among the longest
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How did freestyle and breaststroke evolve over time? I have a theory why.
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Courtesy of Vanessa Daws, 4th Eastern Bay Invitational International Ice Mile Swim, Ireland. Vanessa Daws produced a video of the 4th Eastern Bay Invitational International Ice Mile Swim in Lough Dan Scout Centre, County Wicklow, south of Dublin, Ireland. The swim did not quite make it under the 5ºC (41ºF) International Ice Swimming Association maximum
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Courtesy of Vanessa Siviero and Soraya Siviero at the Travessia de São José do Norte – Rio Grande, Brazil. The 3.5 km Travessia de São José do Norte – Rio Grande started 93 years ago and is the oldest open water swimming competition in Brazil. Its 36th edition was won by elite swimmer Betina Lorscheitter.
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Courtesy of Vanessa Siviero and Soraya Siviero at the Travessia de São José do Norte – Rio Grande, Brazil. The 3.5 km Travessia de São José do Norte – Rio Grande started 93 years ago and is the oldest open water swimming competition in Brazil. Its 36th edition was won by elite swimmer Samuel de
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Hit The Wall Open Water Swim Training by Infinity Channel Swimming is a 3-day open water training camp between May 29th-31st that covers physical and mental limits, safety issues, hydration, nutrition, learning, psychological development, distance swimming, water temperature acclimatisation and teamwork. Participants include skin swimmers, wetsuit swimmers, fast and
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