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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. How is an open water swimmer defined? Are real open water swimmers limited to marathon swimmers and channel swimmers? Or does the definition include stage swimmers, adventure swimmers, ice swimmers, ocean swimmers and relay swimmers? What about lifeguards, surfers, wind surfers, body surfers, and triathletes? What about those with […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Scott Riewald, Ph.D. and Scott Rodeo M.D. have been involved in many of USA Swimming’s international successes over the last few decades. From working on pool decks in early morning hours to participating at the Olympics, both Scotts have both seen, studied and been involved with the athletes and
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Courtesy and Copyright © 2015 of Jorge Paulo Pereira at Swim Challenge Cascais in Cascais, Portugal.
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She’s Back. Yuko Matsuzaki Returns To Turks & Caicos Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, Turks & Caicos. Japan only has one inductee in the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame. And she continues to swim in her fourth decade of marathon swimming. “Yuko Matsuzaki is returning for another solo marathon in the spectacularly beautiful Turks
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Photos courtesy of Anne Copeland Merrill, Ocean City, Florida. Quinn Cassidy was the first man standing at the recent two-day Ocean City Beach Patrol lifeguard test in South Jersey on the American East Coast. It was a tough 0.6-mile course that normally would take the University of Florida swimming star significantly less time, but conditions
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. If we had to make a theoretical all-star relay of great male open water swimmers to swim across any of the Oceans Seven channels (English Channel, Catalina Channel, Molokai Channel, Strait of Gibraltar, North Channel, Cook Strait or Tsugaru Channel), it would be an extremely difficult choice. With the
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. If we had to make a theoretical all-star relay of great female open water swimmers to swim across any of the Oceans Seven channels (English Channel, Catalina Channel, Molokai Channel, Strait of Gibraltar, North Channel, Cook Strait or Tsugaru Channel), it would be an extremely difficult choice. The theoretical
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Renowned coach Don Watson was inducted in the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame two years ago and will be similarly honored this month by the International Swimming Hall of Fame in its induction weekend. Relatively few individuals have had the honor to be dual inductees, honored by both
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Courtesy of Bruckner Chase, Monmouth County, New Jersey. When it comes to open water swimming, there are two types of pros: professional marathon swimmers and lifeguards. While the marathon swimmers swim for themselves as a livelihood, surf life savers swim (and run and rescue and patrol) on behalf of others as a profession. South Jersey
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Karelia hosts the final stage of the Three Swims Tour, an amateur open water swimming competition in Russia. The first stage of the Three Swims Tour takes part in Kostomuksha on July 11th in Karelia, a one-nautical mile swim and 3 km distance on Kontokki Lake with the expected
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