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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Ashley Twichell will defend her title at tomorrow’s RCP Tiburon Mile in what is being billed as one of the most challenging ebb tidal conditions in the race history. Twichell, who is visiting San Francisco this week, before her marriage next week to Derek Wall, looks radiant and confident. […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The Olympic husband and wife duo of Keri-Anne Payne and David Carry will compete together at tomorrow’s RCP Tiburon Mile in San Francisco Bay. Payne, the 2008 Olympic 10K marathon swim silver medalist, will line-up together at the start in the dual male-and-female elite heat with fellow British Olympic
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Courtesy of Masayuki Moriya, Ocean Navi who filmed Antonio Argüelles‘ 12 hour 38 minutes crossing of the Tsugaru Channel in northern Japan between Honshu and Hokkaido. Copyright © 2015 by World Open Water Swimming Association
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Nino Fazio has passed along his swimming DNA to his son Andrea. On September 2nd, Andrea set a new record for a single crossing of the Strait of Messina (Stretto di Messina), swimming from Sicily to mainland Italy in 30 minutes 6 seconds. “It is kind of an epochal
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Adam Jerzykowski completed the first stage of his Swim For a Dream project in Poland. His 20 km swim in Baltic Sea across the Bay of Puck took him over 8 hours. “My body was at its limits, but my head never doubted that I would complete the swim.
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Japan’s top swimmer Yasunari Hirai and his Australian coach Colin Braund certainly hope not. Hirai, Japan’s lone male Olympic marathon swimmer, will be trying for his fourth national title at the 2015 Japan Open Water Swimming Championships (オープンウォータースイミング ジャパンオープン館山) along the Tateyama Hojo Coast in Chiba Prefecture, south of
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. In years past, swimmers like Alison Streeter, Michael Read, Kevin Murphy, Cindy Nicholas, and Des Renford did repeated English Channel crossings. In contemporary times, there are a handful of full-time working women who cross from England to France on a seemingly regular basis, including American podiatrist Marcy MacDonald and
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Due to exceptionally high winds in the week leading up to the scheduled Holidays for Hero’s relay race, the event had to be cancelled and Plan B put into place. The event, sponsored by Nautilus Trust, was the second time Jersey has hosted this particular charity swim. Individual sponsors
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Courtesy of 54-year-old Jeff Everett, who has completed three Oceans Seven channels. Jeff Everett has completed three Oceans Seven channels (English Channel, Catalina Channel and the Strait of Gibraltar) after his 50th birthday. He explains why he was motivated to do so: “During my late 40s, I resolved a mid-life crisis by vowing to swim
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Here’s To A Pair Of Incredible Swims By Brenda Lussier Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Solo Swims of Ontario assisted deaf swimmer Brenda Lussier to cross Lake Erie and Lake Ontario as part of her two-stage Silent Swim to Fight Cystic Fibrosis. Stage One was a successful crossing of Lake Erie in June. Lussier’s
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