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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Fernando Possenti, coach of 25 km world champion Ana Marcela Cunha, was honored by FINA at its Soirée des Etoiles in Doha, Qatar last week. The Brazilian coach swam the 200 butterfly and 200 individual medley until the age of 17 years. Then his life changed and his destiny […]
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Courtesy of FINA, Budapest, Hungary. Brazilian Ana Marcela Cunha was named FINA’s 2015 Female Open Water Swimmer of the Year for the third time after winning medals in the 5 km team event (silver), 10 km Olympic qualifier (bronze), and 25 km marathon swim (gold) at the 2015 FINA World Championships in Kazan, Russia. Copyright
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Courtesy of FINA, Budapest, Hungary. American Jordan Wilimovsky was named FINA’s 2015 Male Open Water Swimmer of the Year for his dominating performance in the 10 km marathon swim at the 2015 FINA World Championships in Kazan, Russia. Copyright © 2015 by World Open Water Swimming Association
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Courtesy of Francismar Siviero, PPCI Francismar Siviero. The Travessia Mar Grande Salvador is a 12 km marathon swim that has attracted professional and amateur marathon swimmers for 52 years in Brazil. Rita Mônica de Cássia Silva Andrade Veloso became the first disabled swimmers to complete the Mar Grande – Salvador swim in 1997. Mônica Veloso,
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Peak And Pond People Courtesy of Eric Blakeley MBE, Jersey. The Peak and Pond Challenge is a unique solo achievement by a highly exclusive club of adventurers who not only successfully summit the highest mountain in the world, Mount Everest, but who also swim across the most renowned stretch of water, the English Channel. The
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. With the winter swimming and ice swimming season now in full force, the issue of cold water is on the minds of many open water swimmers. Masaru Emoto of Japan was a renowned researcher and deep thinker who developed the idea to freeze water and then observe and photograph
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Courtesy of Ram Barkai, Wild Water Armagh, Northern Ireland. Unbelievable. Mind-boggling. Impossible. Dryland athletes think of these adjectives when ice swimmers compete in water nearing 0ºC (32ºF). Ice swimmers are simply pushing the boundaries to explore just how far, how fast and how cold they can swim as the water crystals nearly turn to ice.
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The Austrian Open Water Cup, organized by Andreas Sachs, is an open water swimming series in Austria sponsored by Arena for swimmers of all ages and abilities. The 2016 series will celebrate its fifth season with the following races: Stage 1: 7 May 2016: 3.8 km Apfelland swimming marathon
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. At the 2001 FINA World Championships in Fukuoka, Japan [see photos above], Germany’s Peggy Büchse won the 10 km race over Russia’s Irina Abysova and Edith van Dijk. After the races on Momochi Beach in the calm Hakata Bay, Abysova (Russian: Ирина Алексеевна Абысова) took stock of her swimming
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. New Zealand Ocean Swim Series participants Liam Albery and Emma Robinson won today’s 3.3 km Capital Classic swim in Wellington, where 1,250 registered participants also took competed in multiple swim distances (300m ‘Give it A Go’, 1 km ‘Step It Up’, and 200m ‘OceanKids’ for 14 & unders). The
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