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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Abhejali Bernardova of Sri Chinmoy Marathon Team enjoys pushing herself on land and in the open water. She completed the Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming with a 9 hour 46 minute Catalina Channel crossing on August 18th. She is the first Czech Republic swimmer to become a Triple […]
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Photo courtesy of NewsChannel 3 from Lake Michigan where Dr. Chris Lechner swam 95 miles (152 km) in a traverse attempt across Lake Michigan. Dr. Chris Lechner explains the details of his adventure on his Facebook page here. Copyright © 2015 by World Open Water Swimming Association
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. At 200 kg (440 lbs.) Kelly Gneiting is perhaps the heaviest marathon swimmer in the world. But that has not stopped the sumo wrestler from expanding his athletic repertoire to the open water. Gneiting completed a crossing of Navajo Lake on July 29th, crossing 22 miles (35.4 km) from
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Adam Walker encountered all kinds of marine life en route to his achievement of the Oceans Seven. Stung from the North Channel and tossed around in the Tsugaru Channel, Walker was impacted profoundly on his journey from the English Channel to the Catalina Channel in California. Along the way,
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Five men will attempt a tough relay crossing of cold, jellyfish-strewn Monterey Bay and will set off in the early morning of August 22nd. Three members of the team, Paul Reynolds, Frank Reynolds and Thomas Dietrich have been key members of NCAA water polo team championships at University of
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. After becoming the third person to complete a two-way crossing of the Auau (Maui) Channel between Lanai and Maui in 2013*, professional triathlete Meredith Novack dreamed big. Much, much bigger. Novack previously announced her plans to swim around the entire island of Oahu. Her unprecedented 220-mile (354 km) stage
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. While ocean swimmers in Australia and South Africa – and increasingly Southern California – have lived with the possibility of swimming with sharks in the same general vicinity for generations, it is a new phenomenon in the Tokyo area of Japan. Increasingly, beaches just north and south of Tokyo
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Courtesy of Phil White of the Kingdom Games, Vermont. Crystal Swim is a 5-mile open water swim, part of the Swim The Kingdom, in the state of Vermont under the cliffs and around the shores. Copyright © 2015 by World Open Water Swimming Association
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Bridgett Hobart finished her Cayuga Lake crossing in 20 hours 33 minutes, her longest swim in the Nazareth College Finger Lakes Challenge. Claire deBoer, the first woman to cross Cayuga Lake 31 years ago in 1984, came to town to support Hobart in her attempt and surprised me in
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