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World Open Water Swimming Federation, a human-powered project
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. What started out as a cool little idea by Ned Denison as a quirky off-shoot of the Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming has steadily grown globally. Denison’s Triple Break or the Triple Crown of Prison Island Swims started out as 3 open water swims, but now has grown […]
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Courtesy of International Swimming Hall of Fame about Cliff Lumsdon‘s 1959 Canadian National Exhibition victory in Lake Ontario, Canada.
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Courtesy of International Swimming Hall of Fame on Ike Papke.
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Trent Theroux completed a 17 hour 30 minute 40-mile circumnavigation swim around Aquidneck Island to benefit RISE Above Paralysis. He explains why he attempted this unprecedented swim around the island in Rhode Island’s Narragansett Bay. “13 years ago, I was run over by a motorboat. The propellers severed all
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Photos courtesy of the Catalina Channel Swimming Federation. Tracy Clark completed her third Oceans Seven channel on September 22nd with a 12 hour 54 minute crossing of the Catalina Channel. The Catalina Channel Swimming Federation reported, “The Kiwi had some unique encounters with two whales (a mother and a
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Bridgette Hobart Janesczko successfully completed her ninth and last Finger Lake in New York during her 9-stage 156-mile charity swim for Nazareth College. It was a lifetime goal for the extraordinarily busy company owner and open water swimming race director from Lake Hopatcong, New Jersey. Her swim promoted Nazareth
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Big Brother, Little Brother In The Open Water Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. 2008 and 2012 Paralympian Achmat Hassiem of Strandfontein Village in Cape Town, South Africa and a member of the Pew Environmental Group did something so heroic, so humbling, so beautiful that is defies description. Listen to his explanation about how he
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Courtesy of Antonio Argüelles, Honour Swimmer in the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame. In September 2009 I completed the Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming in one season and, with that, became the first person in the world to have achieved the Triple Crown twice. In November of that year I was honored with
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. New York attorney Alan Morrison will attempt a historic two-way 24-mile crossing from the Brooklyn Bridge to Coney Island tomorrow as a charity swim. The swim’s roots go back at least 100 years. On September 27th, the 53-year-old Manhattan breaststroking marathon swimmer will attempt the solo swim from the
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