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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Stavanger Open Water is a multi-race open water swimming and biathlon event in the southwest of Norway. Its races include 250m, 500m, 1 km, 3 km, and 5 km swims as well as biathlons of 1 km + 5 km run and 1 km + 8 km run. Fastest […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. 100 years ago on September 5th 1915, 18-year-old Robert Dowling became the first person to swim around Manhattan Island in New York City. Manhattan Island Dowling began his 13 hour 34 minute swim at 10:15 pm near Spuyten Duyvil, swimming through the night down the Hudson River and up
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Courtesy of Village Silversmith, New England’s favorite jewelry shop and sponsor of the Beverly Shark Swim in Massachusetts. Awards for the top swimmers at the Beverly Shark Swim are real fossilized shark teeth. The New England Open Water Swimming Association-sanctioned event winners receive the shark teeth from the extinct Otodus Obliquus. These are very large
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. At the age of 75, Harry Huffaker is using the 46th annual Waikiki Roughwater Swim [WRS] as a final tune-up swim for his attempt of the 26-mile (42 km) Molokai Channel in a few weeks. There are athletes of all ages from Hawaii, Nevada, Arizona, Texas, New York, Georgia,
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Courtesy of Alton Motobu, Oahu, Hawaii. With nearly 900 people* signed up for the 46th annual Waikiki Roughwater Swim certain rules apply to keep the race fair and respective of the aloha spirit that permeates throughout the Hawaiian islands. Race director Kaia Hedlund announced the time penalties that will be assessed to swimmers who do
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. In is most likely the most unusual accommodation for an open water swimming anywhere, the size of the Waikiki Roughwater Swim has led Atlantis Submarine to temporarily suspend its tours off the shores of Waikiki during tomorrow’s 2.4-mile race on Oahu. While the Australians have completely dominated the awards
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Back in July 1929, the renowned historical figure Mercedes Gleitze swam across the Firth of Forth. Now 8 decades later, swimmers can tackle the same 1.4-mile course tomorrow in the Firth of Forth Swim across the Forth from Hawes pier, South Queensferry to the pier at North Queensferry. The
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Courtesy of Daphne Papp and the Gloucester Daily Times. The Beverly Shark Swim is an open water swimming competition of 500 yards, 1 mile and 2 miles that will be held in Lynch Park in Beverly, Massachusetts next week. This week, the exact location of the event had a visitor that makes the swim live
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. This Saturday, the 46th Annual Waikiki Roughwater Swim will take place – and it should definitely live up to its name and maybe more. Three hurricanes (Kilo, Ignacio and Jimena) have formulated in the Pacific Ocean in the week leading up to the 2.4-mile swim from the Diamondhead Volcano
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Round Two of the 22-mile The Swim Around The Islands goes to Mother Nature. So far, She is up 2-0 on the relay quartet of Joe Rainero (49, shown above), Matt Maurer (38), Triple Crowner Lance Ogren (44), and Mike Stresemann (54). Rainero summarized their effort, “We successfully determined
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