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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Marianne Rhéaume from Montreal’s CAMO Natation won the 5 km Canadian Age Group Championships (Championnat canadien groupes d’âge) in Lac-Beauport in 1:07:13 while 13-year-old Dounia Hage won the 2.5 km race in 36:09. True to the marathon swimming traditions of Québec, swimmers from the province won four of the […]
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Courtesy of Salvatore Cimmino who will attempt to swim attempt to swim from Cuba to Florida across the Straits of Florida.
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Photo and video of the finish of the men’s 10 km Olympic 10K Marathon qualifying swim in Kazan, Russia is courtesy of Rai Sport, a race won by Jordan Wilimovsky. Watch the final sprint to the 10 km world championships here on Rai Sport. The photo above shows the photo finish between 9th place Allan
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Video of the finish of the men’s 10 km Olympic 10K Marathon qualifying swim in Kazan, Russia is courtesy of Rai Sport, a race won by Jordan Wilimovsky. Watch the final sprint to the 10 km world championships here on Rai Sport. Men’s 10 km marathon swim qualifiers: 1 Jordan Wilimovsky (USA) 1:49:48.2 2 Ferry
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Prior to the August 15th International Ice Swimming Association 1 km South African Championships, Ram Barkai and the International Ice Swimming Association organized a qualifying swim in a local pool for the 1 km event. 32 swimmers required qualifying and entered in the 500m swim. “I had to negotiate
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The passion of the Irish swimming community for open water swimming is clearly obvious at their Irish Long Distance Swimming Championship 17k & 25K that serves as a National Championship event of Swim Ireland. The 2015 results of the Lough Erne National Championships just recently completed in Fermanagh, Northern
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. In his third major solo swim* over the last 13 months, Matthew Moseley completed an unprecedented 47.5-mile (76.4 km) downriver swimming descent of the Colorado River in 13 hours 56 minutes on July 29th. “With the support of Kristin Moseley. Coach Randy Soler, Allen Blow, Mark Williams. and Tom
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The Ocean Games is held along the shoreline of Ocean City, Maryland. Conducted in cooperation with the Town of Ocean City, the Ocean City Beach Patrol, and the United States Coast Guard, the Ocean Games features 1-, 3- and 9-mile ocean swims, while the East Coast SUP CUP offers
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Courtesy of Bob Nighan of Globe Hollow Swimming Hole in Manchester, Connecticut. The renowned marathon swimmer Marcy MacDonald swam across Loch Ness in Scotland in 11 hours 59 minutes. Her 23-mile charity swim was performed on behalf of the Homes for the Brave. For her description and updates, visit Cutting Water. Copyright © 2015 by
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Without a doubt, the greatest service we have witnessed over the decades in the sport of open water swimming is Healthy Athletes or free health screenings for Special Olympics athletes at the quadrennial World Summer Games. The Healthy Athletes program at these Games in Los Angeles have provided seven
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