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World Open Water Swimming Federation, a human-powered project
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. What if triathletes and open water swimmers were built like cars? With horns, lights and blinkers? Imagine if triathletes and open water swimmers had built-in horns and high beams to use when another athlete cut in front of them or when someone crossed their path or grabbed their legs
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Tara Diversi, an Assistant Professor at Australia’s Bond University in Sports Nutrition, has worked with a number of marathon swimmers to assist with their open water swimming nutrition and hydration. Currently, Professor Diversi has one open survey, a study looking at aspiring solo English Channel swimmers. “If a swimmer
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. American Marcy MacDonald completed her 15th English Channel crossing today in 11 hours 50 minutes. “#15 is in the books,” the American podiatrist and Honour Swimmer in the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame wrote on her blog Cutting Water.* “I got to experience almost everything the channel hit
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Swim In The Land Of The Rising Sun Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The 2014 Japanese Open Water Swimming Championships will be held along the Tateyama Hojo Coast (館山市北条海岸) in Chiba Prefecture, south of Tokyo and east of Yokohama, Japan. The remarkably calm and cool shoreline has stunning views of Mount Fuji across the
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. One of the most intriguing figures in the sport of open water swimming is the relatively unheralded Charlotte Brynn. The personable, ever-optimistic New Zealand coach and swimmer is currently living and coaching in Vermont has tremendously picked up her pace of aquatic adventures since 2011. But she has also
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. In addition to Fionnuala Walsh, Joelle Beard, Doug McConnell, and John Walker of the South End Rowing Club completed the Manhattan Island Marathon Swim this past weekend to achieve the Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming. Results of the June 28th MIMS: 1. Kristian Rutford (54) 8:42:53 2. Fionnuala
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The swim is too dangerous. He doesn’t know what he is doing. Safety is not a priority. Those allegations are repeatedly thrown about in the open water swimming world…since the 19th century if not earlier. Swimming from England to France used to be unthinkable. Swimming in Antarctica used to
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