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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. There is arguably no event on the global open water swimming calendar that attracts so many Olympic medalists, world champions, national qualifiers, NCAA champions, marathon swimmers, channel swimmers, and record holders at the local, regional, national and international level as the annual Trans Tahoe Relay. The 10-mile event is […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. After seeing a newspaper advertisement in his native Egypt, Omar Sabry signed up to compete for a spot in a 6-person relay across the English Channel. The Egyptian Swimming Federation was scouting for volunteers and went to the public to scout for its best swimmers. The Federation had not
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. “Stephen Junk was clocking great time out of Kaluakoi [on Molokai,” reported kayaker Steve Haumschild. “He is a hell of a swimmer. He remained strong and consistent throughout the time. Conditions overall were descent with a few storms rolling through.” But then the unexpected hit just about the time
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. After years of planning and preparing, Tita Llorens finally completed an unprecedented solo swim from Ibiza to Mallorca. The 84.3 km journey took the 46-year-old a total of 28 hours 13 minutes, one of the few people in the world who have purposefully swum for longer than 24 hours.
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Photo courtesy of the Gwangju Summer Universiade Organizing Committee. At the 2015 Universiade, American Stephanie Peacock found herself in South Korea for the first time. Housed in the Universiade Athletes Village, Peacock was with thousands of other athletes and heads of delegations in an Internet-enabled suite with access to
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. When Benoît Lecomte undertakes The Longest Swim from Tokyo to San Francisco later this year, he is going to embark on the longest time in the water of any human in history over the 6-month period of the ordeal. Lecomte summarized his training, “[It involves] many years of preparation.
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Photos of Ilaria Raimondi (Italy), Mario Sanzullo (Italy), and Miki Asayama (Japan) at the end of the 10 km marathon swim at the Universiade, Republic of Korea, courtesy of Gwangju Summer Universiade Organizing Committee. Competitive athletes in open water races around the world have described the last sprint in their 10 km marathon swims as:
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Courtesy of SurflineTV from Cortes Bank. The Santa Barbara Channel Swimming Association (SBCSA) governs open water swims and channel attempts in the California Channel Islands, including the relay swims from San Clemente Island. SBCSA has observed and ratified two 6-person relays and Tina Neill‘s solo swim from San Clemente Island to the California mainland, a
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Photo courtesy of the Gwangju Summer Universiade Organizing Committee. It was not to be. Matteo Furlan was the defending champion from the 2013 Universiade in Russia and was looking good to repeat at the World University Games in South Korea. But coming down the final straightaway, Russia’s Anton Evsikov
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Universiade, Republic of Korea. In what amounts to one of the most unusual high-level marathon swimming races at the international level, Italy took the top two podium spots with gold medalist Arianna Bridi and silver medalist Ilaria Raimondi finishing ahead of American Stephanie Peacock. But Bridi’s large margin of victory and the
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