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World Open Water Swimming Federation, a human-powered project
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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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Channel swimmer always have major decisions to make when deciding who is on their support crew for a 10-20 mile channel swim. They have to balance decisions such as who wants to be on their escort boat in contrast who should be on their escort boat. Who can be
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Observers Kim Rutherford and Scott Tapley confirmed that Captains Brent McLain and Marino Cacciotti escorted Amy Appelhans Gubser, Kirk McKinney, Les Mangold, John Sims, Jeff Everett, and Andrew McLaughlin completed the first two-way crossing of the Farallon Islands. “The San Francisco-based Team Nadadores Locos, a 6-person relay, swam from
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Kris Rutford of Nebraska completed his record-setting 21st circumnavigation swim around Manhattan Island in New York City today. His 7 hour 50 minute loop means he has swum nearly 600 total miles around one of the most famous islands in the world. “Too bad I breathe on my right
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. It only seemed a matter of time and focus for the USA Swimming to win the FINA Open Water Championships Trophy. For a country with the most number of open water swimming events, largest number of competitive swimmers, thousands of miles of coastlines and lakes, and a history of
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Photos by Giorgio Perottino for Deepbluemedia. Article courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Ana Marcela Cunha not only defended her 25 km world title, but she collected her seventh career world championship medal with her 5 hour 13 minute victory in today’s 25 km race. She has demonstrated her prowess in short sprints of 5
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Photos by Giorgio Perottino for Deepbluemedia. Article courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. It was quite a FINA World Championships for Simone Ruffini. He not only qualified for the 2016 Olympics with a seventh place finish in the 10 km race, but he also culminated the event with his first world title and a successful
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Courtesy of Water World Swim, Bonifacio Channel between France and Italy. Water World Swim reported that one of its members, David Rich completed a 15 km crossing of the Strait of Bonifacio between France and Italy in 4 hours 56 minutes on July 8th. For more information, read here. Copyright © 2015 by World Open
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Daniel Fung has every reason to be too busy to train. The physician is a specialist in the non-surgical care of spine, musculoskeletal, sports and pain disorders who focuses on interventional spine and pain procedures including epidural injections, radiofrequency ablation, nerve blocks, intradiscal treatments, platelet rich plasma injections, stem
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Courtesy of Lane Vail for Natural Awakenings. Bostonian avid open-water swimmer Kate Radville is delighted that water constitutes 70 percent of the Earth’s surface. “The controlled environment of a swimming pool is convenient,” she says, “but splashing around outside in the beautiful summer sunshine is undeniably liberating.” …read more here.
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