To educate, entertain, and enthuse all those who venture beyond the shoreline
World Open Water Swimming Federation, a human-powered project
Under the leadership of Kester Edwards and coaches like Penny McDowall of the Cayman Islands and Rudsel Maria of Curaçao, the aquatic discipline of open water swimming is growing worldwide in the Special Olympics community. Rudsel Maria is exemplary, guiding his athletes for local Special Olympics open water swimming events and international competitions from Curacao […]
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Football has FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football Association). Pool swimming has FINA (Fédération Internationale de Natation). Volleyball has FIVB (Fédération Internationale de Volleyball). These global organizations were established to bring uniformity, promotion and governance to their respective sports. What does open water swimming have? Frankly, it is an expansive alphabet soup. There are dozens of
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Megan Melgaard, a Renaissance Women of the open water world, pays close attention to the amount and type of water and hydration she takes in, but it wasn’t until recently that she learned how important it is to monitor the amount of water going out. Melgaard, who races major endurance events across the globe and
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UltraRunning Magazine reported the number of ultra-distance runners in the United States was 52,000 in 2011 and 518,000 people finished a marathon run in the U.S. in 2011. How do the runners compare with their marathon swimming brethren in the U.S.? It seems the estimated number of swimmers remains still a tiny fraction of endurance
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2,326 adult swimmers will take to the open water in the Adriatic Sea in Italy, where a record number will participate in the 14th FINA World Masters Championships from June 3-17. From 20 to over 100 years old, swimmers from Italy, Germany, France, Russia, USA, Great Britain, Brazil, Canada, Spain, Netherlands, Australia, Japan, Sweden, Venezuela,
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Zhang Jian of China hopes to become the first person to swim across the 141 km (87.6 miles) Taiwan Strait. “It would be a dream come true,” said the Sports Director at Beijing Sports University who idea was first born when he swam across the 29.5 km Qiongzhou Strait in 1988. But his career has
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Beijing Sports University’s renowned marathon swimmer Zhang Jian and colleague Zhang Jie offer a Quality Development Training Camp at Beijing Sports University. Zwang promotes cross-training as a healthy lifestyle with the Beijing Sports University Joint Beijing Triathlon Association. “The purpose is to improve sports awareness, cultivate interest in sports among the youth, improve their physique,
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In order to help his athletes prepare for cold water training, Beijing Sports University’s renowned marathon swimmer Zhang Jian and his colleagues at Beijing Sports University acclimate as best they can be purposefully turning off the pool heater and then enhancing the situation by pouring ice into the pool. 10 tons of ice to be
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After a week of constant, unseasonably hard rains with thundershowers, the skies let up and the waves settled down for a gorgeous running of the 10th annual Butterfield 800m Sea Swim on Seven Mile Beach in the Cayman Islands. “After all the weather we’ve been having, the conditions [for the race] were great,” said Bill
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First it was Nuala Moore and Anne Marie Ward who joined Nejib Belhedi on his 1400K Swim Across Tunisia along the entire coastline of Tunisia. Now it is Stuart Hyde and Thomas Noblett of the Windermere 12-way Warriors who will join in his Swim of Peace that will now be extended to Hyde Park. “There’ll
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