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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Arianna Bridi won the 5 km open water swim at the 1st Mediterranean Beach Games in Pescara, Italy yesterday in a 6-second victory over fellow Italian Giulia Gabrielleschi. Bridi won in 59:24.9 with Gabrielleschi second in a very close 59:25.2 and Slovenian swimmer Spela Perse third in 59:25.6 and […]
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Courtesy of Pádraig Mallon, Camlough Lake Water Festival, Northern Ireland. Camlough Lake Water Festival near Newry, Northern Ireland always run events for the youth. They are the future of open water swimming. The amazing talent seen on display at CLWF 2015 is worthy of publication and with kind permission of these children’s parents. In the
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Alexis Underwood wears business attire by day and trains by night for all kinds of amateur and professional open water competitions. Originally from Canada, she was a competitive swimmer at the University of Pennsylvania and is currently working for Georgia-Pacific in Atlanta. She recently won the women’s division at
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Courtesy of Ángela Díaz García, Ultramaratón del Ebro, Spain. Ángela Díaz García completed the 30.83 km Ultramaratón del Ebro between the piers of the Tarragona in Tivenys to Amposta in 5 hours 56 minutes, 8 minutes slower than she did last year. “But the race was held in very rough conditions with lower water levels
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Courtesy of Mackenzie Miller on behalf of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. American channel swimmer Charlotte Samuels became the second person to cross the New York Bight Strait after Patricia Sener‘s pioneering swim a month earlier between Sandy Hook, New Jersey and Silver Point. Uncrossed by channel swimmers until now, this particular part of the Atlantic
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Not only is Craig Beardsley a hero in many people’s eyes because of his passionate work at Swim Across America, but he is a hero to many competitive pool swimmers from the 1970s on. AP reporter Paul Newberry writes a telling article about Beardsley here. “He was a great
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Courtesy of Ángela Díaz García, Ultramaratón del Ebro, Spain. Ángela Díaz García completed the 30.83 km Ultramaratón del Ebro between the piers of the Tarragona in Tivenys to Amposta in 5 hours 56 minutes, 8 minutes slower than she did last year. “But the race was held in very rough conditions with lower water levels
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Ildiko Szekely, Andrea Marques, Dave Swensen, Erica Carroll and Kelsey Finn each won their divisions at today’s 10th annual Salem Harbor Open Water Swim. The Salem Swim & Fin charity swim was held in Salem Harbor, Massachusetts to benefit the Salem Sound Coastwatch. 36-year-old butterfly specialist Szekely, a masters
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