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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. On day #2 of the Night Train 300, Captain Vito Bialla reported that the Night Train 300 relay (NT300) has already completed 142.86 statute miles at the 48-hour point. After a rather rough first night with turbulence, tranquility and bright blue skies have greeted Grace van der Byl, Dave […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The SwimCross is an open water swimming lake competition with 4 obstacles along the course with an in-the-water start and run-on-land finish. In each heat, 10 athletes race together. The final pit the best 8 women and best 8 men together in Strandbad in Uster Zurich, Switzerland. Top Men
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Courtesy of Steph Cox, Chillswim Coniston in Coniston in the Lake District of England.. A beautiful day in the Lake District greeted swimmers from as far afield as Singapore, Jersey, and the far north of Scotland as well as a host of Cumbrians in the Lake District National Park’s Coniston Water on September 5th for
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Courtesy of Vito Bialla, Night Train Swimmers, California. On day #2 of the Night Train 300, Captain Vito Bialla who estimates that he will only sleep 2-3 hours per 24-hour period as he pulls in double duty as the pilot and a swimmer, reports, “We are at 50 miles and all is good. There were
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63-year-old Jim Clifford Does The Triple Crown Courtesy of Barbara Held. Jim Clifford became the oldest person to have completed the Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming with his crossing of the English Channel today. “In 2014 he swam the Manhattan Island Marathon Swim. A couple months later, he became the oldest individual to complete
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Daniel Curtis started off his tour of Japan in the Namihaya Dome in Osaka. 13 days later he headed north to Aomori Prefecture to begin his brief acclimatization to the waters of the Tsugaru Channel. Today, he completed this third Oceans Seven channel with a successful crossing of the
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Courtesy of Frank Fennema Photography of Night Train 300 in San Francisco Bay, California. The first day and night of an anticipated 6-day 300-mile relay journey is nearly over. Grace van der Byl jumped in San Francisco Bay at 10 am on Sunday morning [shown above] to start the Night Train 300 relay (NT300). Grace
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. A Canadian 8-person relay of young swimmers from St. Catharines, Ontario included Abby-gail Jones, Alyssa Mundy, Ayla Jukosky, Charlie French, Jayson Pigeon, Michaela Arsenault, Ming Scott, and Trinity Arsenault. They swam a cumulative total of 90.154 km in Lake Ontario last week over 24 hours 2 minutes. Everything was
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. When athletes swim and look up from the water’s edge, their perspectives are always interesting to us. Looking up towards the Golden Gate Bridge spanning the San Francisco Bay in California reminds us of looking up towards the George Washington Bridge spanning the Hudson River in New York from
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. FINA recently posted a water quality report by Dr. Tania Braga for Copacabana Beach for the 2016 Rio Olympic Games. The report is the latest in a series of monthly reports on the water quality at the Olympic 10K Marathon Swim venue. Reported testing figures are from samples taken
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