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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Open water swimming Bill May and his partner Christina Jones won a gold medal in the inaugural Mixed Duet Technical synchronized swimming event at the 2015 FINA World Championships in Kazan, Russia. An example of the 36-year-old’s Cirque du Soleil performer’s swimming workouts are here. Copyright © 2015 by […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. 57 women, 10 spots. That is it. They train all their lives for this moment, culminating in 4 years of focused preparation, and a race that ends within 2 hours. But the 2015 FINA World Swimming Championships 10 km marathon swim in Kazan is the ultimate test of speed,
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The last time we reported on Bill May, the 36-year-old was winning U.S. Masters Swimming marathon races and working full-time as a highly acclaimed performer for O, the famed long-running and highly popular Cirque de Soleil aquatic spectacular at the Bellagio Hotel on the Las Vegas Strip. This week
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. 72 men, 10 spots. That is it. They train all their lives for this moment, culminating in 4 years of focused preparation, and race that ends within 2 hours. But the 2015 FINA World Swimming Championships 10 km marathon swim in Kazan is the ultimate test of speed, strength,
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Courtesy of Red Bull Surf & Rescue competition in Atlantic City, New Jersey, won by Sea Girt Beach Patrol of Monmouth County (Mike Barrows, Todd Sudol, Alex D’Anna and Anne Skimmons).
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Photos courtesy of Giorgio Scala/Deepbluemedia. The big day at the 2015 FINA World Swimming Championships for the female open water swimmers is next Tuesday when the first qualifying swim for the 2016 Rio Olympics 10K Marathon Swim is held. But the first day and first event in Kazan, Russia
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The 2015 FINA World Swimming Championships will kick-off in the Kazanka River in Kazan, Russia on Saturday morning. The championships will have fireworks from the very first event, the 5 km with American Andrew Gemmell, German Thomas Lurz, Russian Evegenii Drattcev and Sergey Bolshakov, defending champion Ous Mellouli from
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The 2015 FINA World Swimming Championships will kick-off in the Kazanka River in Kazan, Russia on Saturday morning. The championships will most certainly launch with a lot of close racing in the men’s and women’s 5 km. Especially with world champions Ana Marcela Cunha and Poliana Okimoto of Brazil
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Chip Peterson and American teammate Christine Jennings both won the 10 km Traversée internationale du lac St-Jean that doubles up as a leg on the FINA/HOSA 10K Marathon Swimming World Cup. The Americans very comfortably won in 1:57:37 and 2:09:15 respectively on July 23rd. 14 men and 6 women
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Ron Collins announced that Chris Burke completed his open water swimming Grand Slam with his fast crossing of the English Channel in 10 hours 44 minutes yesterday. With his Catalina Channel crossing and his Manhattan Island Marathon Swim last year and his previous Tampa Bay Marathon Swim, Burke completed
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