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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. “The Kingdom Swim psych sheet is now set,” explains Phil White of the July 12th multi-race event that includes the WOWSA 10-Mile World Championship. “With about 125 swimmers joining us from as far away as Ireland and California, Quebec City and Florida.” Additionally, White announced a new 15-mile Renegade, […]
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Courtesy of END-WET, down the Red River from North Dakota to Minnesota. “I loved Grand Forks and the Red River swim itself,” describes Honolulu resident Michael Miller about the 2014 END-WET swim that he completed in 9 hours 34 minutes. “What I didn’t expect was how much one has to go through to even just
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Kimberley Chambers of New Zealand completed her sixth Oceans Seven channel this week in a quick 9 hours 38 minutes. As she was closing in on Hokkaido, the currents and eddies pushed her far east for the last two hours. “I was expecting this, but man, those currents were
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. In addition to the most recent additions of Gordon Gridley, Fionnuala Walsh, John Walker, Joelle Beard, Doug McConnell [shown on left], and David Livengood, there are now 89 people in history who have successfully completed the Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming. Where do these people stack up in
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. While hundreds of swimmers are on the Oceans Seven list for doing the English Channel, Catalina Channel, North Channel, Molokai Channel, Strait of Gibraltar, Cook Strait and Tsugaru Channel, there are others who prefer the camaraderie of teammates when tackling the Oceans Seven. Bill Ireland [shown above], one of
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. David Livengood was the fifth person to complete the Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming on June 28th at the 2014 Manhattan Island Marathon Swim. The Oregonian is setting the standard for his fellow channel swimmers in the northwest of America. He started his Triple Crown in 2009 with
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Kim Chambers, courtesy of Tsugaru Channel Swimming Association, closing in on Hokkaido, the northernmost major island of Japan, her sixth channel in the Oceans Seven. Copyright © 2014 by World Open Water Swimming Association
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Yuko Matsuzaki has swum as long as 33 hours non-stop and completed several dozens of professional marathon swims – some cold, some warm, many rough – during her lengthy 3-decade career. But today’s 21 km crossing between the island of North Caicos and Grace Bay, Providenciales in Turks &
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Photography courtesy of Mike Lewis, Ola Vista Photography, California. Andrew Gemmell is considered a genius in the open water swimming world with a navigational IQ that is off the charts. The 2012 Olympian’s choice of direction in every condition during every race is calculated internally by his own cranial GPS, but his courses are set
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. In the open water swimming world, one can always expect the unexpected. The same holds true for Kelly Gneiting of Rexburg, Idaho. Gneiting, known as the Man of Fat Steel, is not your average athlete and certainly far removed from your average swimmer. The Idaho native is a tall,
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