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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Theodore Yach of South Africa has now completed his 95th Robben Island swim. Every swim he makes from the prison island is another one for the record books. While many have swum from Robben Island over the years, only one has done the 7 km swim so repeatedly to […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. “We have a huge weekend for the earth coming up. The less CO2 out there, the less acidic our swims will be,” says open water swimmer and organizer Doug Woodwing. Supporters can join our huge music and silent disco event on December 5th and 6th, called LISTEN – Paris
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Courtesy of Nicolene Steynberg about the Madswimmers hiking up Mt Ojos del Salado in Argentina. The Madswimmer group of 7 South African high-altitude swimmers, 2 medics, 4 support climbers, a tour guide and a cameraman were rising to the challenge – steadily towards the world’s highest altitude swim on Mt Ojos del Salado in the
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Lewis Pugh, United Nations Patron of the Oceans, will present the annual World Open Water Swimming Awards at the Big Chill Swim in Windermere, England. Lake District Event Company Chillswim are set to host the WOWSA Awards as part of the Big Chill Swim International Winter Swimming World Cup
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. What is right and what is wrong in open water swimming? Many swimmers have all kinds of opinions, especially about other swimmers who announce their swims in a public manner. Like the issues of politics, religion and what to drink during a long swim, swimmers have perspectives that range
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. World champions Evgeny Bezruchenko, Vladimir Dyatchin and Larisa Ilchenko announced their third season of the Champions Cup. The 4-race series of 1 nautical mile swims are in Moscow, Lipetsk, Sochi, and Samara. The dates of the 2016 series are as follows: *May 29th — Moscow *June 12th — Lipetsk
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Courtesy of Nicolene Steynberg about the Madswimmers hiking up Mt Ojos del Salado in Argentina. The Madswimmer group of 7 South African high-altitude swimmers, 2 medics, 4 support climbers, a tour guide and a cameraman found an interesting phenomenon up on their way to Mt Ojos del Salado in the Andes Mountain. In their attempt
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Comcast SportsNet California will broadcast the 15th annual RCP Tiburon Mile beginning tonight. “Watch the elite swimmers who joined us from around the world like, Keri-Anne Payne and David Carry from Great Britain, Michael Sheil from Australia, Evgeny Bezruchenko from Russia, Christine Jennings and Becca Mann from the USA,
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Kelly Gneiting Steps Up Big Time Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. There is no more unlikely marathon swimmer than sumo wrestler Kelly Gneiting. Not only did he struggle – but succeed – with his 22-mile (35.4 km) solo swim across Navajo Lake from New Mexico to Colorado in 22 hours 46 minutes, but he
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. 63-year-old Jim Clifford is not one to tout his physical talents, but his channel swims this year certainly proved how talented the low-key American is. This year, Clifford not only ripped off the fastest English Channel crossing of anyone in history over the age of 50 (less than 2
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