Brothers Duke and Ned Wieland Go 1-2 in the Waikiki Roughwater Swim, Reversing Order From 2024
Duke and Ned Wieland of Australia went 1-2 for the second year in a row at the 2025 Waikiki Roughwater Swim
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The Waikiki Roughwater Swim, Its Origin and Its Influence Around The World
Ollie Signorini of Australia and Kathleen Hohwald of California won the 52nd annual Waikiki Roughwater Swim in Honolulu, Hawaii
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Make Your Recommendations for the World’s Top 100 Island Swims
Make your recommendations for swims to be added to the World’s Top 100 Island Swims
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Getting Out Past Heavy Surf
Learn ten general recommendations for safely getting in and out of heavy surf.
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Exhilaration of Swimming Along The High Seas
Swimming parallel to shore during high surf is only for the most experienced oceans swimmers. Going up and down the crest of the waves gives swimmers a unique vantage point.
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Are You Lonely When You Swim Alone?
Do you feel alone when you swim alone? What are the thoughts that run through your head while swimming?
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Sandy Easton, Colby Dimsdale Win Double Roughwater in Hawaii
54-year-old Sandy Easton and 21-year-old Colby Dimsdale won the women’s and men’s categories at the 7 km Double Roughwater in Hawaii
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The Open Water Swimming Heroes of Hawai’i
There is no place on Planet Earth where there is so much synergy and overlap between competitive pool swimming, open water swimming, masters swimming, and channel swimming as in the state of Hawai’i.
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Brilliant – Driven – Successful: 2,216 Woman In Kona
While a lot of eyes where on the start-to-finish victory of 30-year-old British triathlete Lucy Charles-Barkley at the 2023 Ironman World Championships in Kona, Hawaii (see one of her pre-race videos below), I was particularly impressed with the entire field of 2,216 female triathletes from teenagers to septuagenarians on the swim leg. Every one of
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Enei-chu: Swimmer In The Water
The Japanese use signage on their escort boats when guiding channel swimmers in the oceans and seas around the Japanese archipelago
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