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World Open Water Swimming Federation, a human-powered project
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Nik Haynes is a former American collegiate swimmer who set school records at Towson University in Maryland in backstroke. “My goal is to become the fastest and third person* in history to swim backstroke across the English Channel while raising money for WaterAid to help millions of people in […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. David Miner of Swim Without Limits is hosting two events in Florida this season. The first is the 2nd annual Swim Around Lido Key. It is a 7-mile, pilot-escorted circumnavigation swim for soloists and duo relay members around the beautiful island of Lido Key in Sarasota, Florida. The race
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Attila Mányoki, a Hungarian swimmer who has completed 4 Oceans Seven channels, is hosting an open water swimming workshop at the Cold Half in Repulse Bay Beach in Hong Kong on January 31st. For more information, visit here. Mányoki has completed over 200 open water events around the globe,
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The Apostle Island Relay Swim (A.I.R.S.) is a 20-mile (32.2 km) solo swim and relay competition around Madeline Island in Bayfield, Wisconsin. Madeline Island is one of the 22 Apostle Islands in Lake Superior located off the Bayfield peninsula in Northern Wisconsin. The largest of the Apostle Islands, it
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Courtesy of Nicolene Steynberg. The last time we reported about the Madswimmers, they were hiking up to 5,909m (19,386 feet) and swimming on Mt Tres Cruces, a volcano in the Andes Mountains along the Argentina-Chile border in South America. Jean Craven and his swim buddies from the Madswimmers are now at sea level. The Madswimmers
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The Lake District will soon attract over 1,000 participants from Australia, USA, Mexico, Russia and all across the UK, Scandinavia and Eastern Europe for the Big Chillswim Winter Swimming Gala in Windermere between February 5th – 7th. Besides such renowned ice swimmers like Colin Hill and Lewis Pugh, there
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Courtesy of Chris Morgan [see video below], Head Coach, Gator’s Swim Club. Note: There are now more than a few elite open water swimmers using KAATSU and KAATSU Aqua to improve their speed, strength and stamina. Guest coach Chris Morgan of the Gator’s Swim Club, the 2015 New England Senior Swimming Championship Team, gives a
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Ingemar Patiño Macarine completed the first crossing of the Surigao Strait (Kipot ng Surigaw) today by swimming 10.99 km in 3 hours 37 minutes from Sumilon Island to Punta Bilar, Surigao City in the the Philippine Sea. “Strong currents changed direction five times,” wrote Ingemar. “With thousands of nasty
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. America is a very big country, but open water swims are now held in every state from New York to California, Florida to Alaska. But arguably the toughest waters in the open water are those of the Pacific Northwest which are always cold and frequently turbulent. Winds, fog, rain,
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