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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. In the competitive open water swimming world, the 5 km race is considered a sprint. The hour race is the shortest open water race conducted at the FINA World Championships. And an American distance freestyle specialist – Haley Anderson – is considered the world’s best open water sprinter. The […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The 2014 USA Swimming 5 km National Open Water Swimming Championships will be held this morning in Castaic Lake, California. The men’s race will begin at 8 am and the women’s race will begin at 9:30 am with live coverage provided by USA Swimming via a webcast at www.usaswimming.org.
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Scenes from today’s the 64th annual Huntington Beach Pier Swim as President Obama flew overhead in his presidential helicopter over the Pacific Ocean. From running into the crashing surf to bodysurfing in towards the finish, the 300 participants carried on the Surf City tradition started 64 years ago by
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. 42-year-old Gordon Gridley became the 84th person in history to complete the Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming. The Utah swimmer completed the Manhattan Island Marathon Swim in 8 hours 10 minutes as well as an English Channel crossing in 11 hours 30 minutes in 2012 and a Catalina
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. As President Obama flew overhead in his presidential helicopter cruising along the Pacific Ocean on his way to Laguna Beach, the 64th annual Huntington Beach Pier Swim got underway. John Valinsky has been carrying on the Surf City tradition started 64 years ago by the legendary Huntington Beach, California
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. 47-year-old Matthew Moseley swam shore-to-shore across Lake Pontchartrain in 14 hours 55 minutes, an historic first as he reached his finish line of Mandeville in Louisiana. “This spot didn’t seem to come for hours and hours and hours,” recalls Moseley who swam across the lake as a charity swim
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Underwater Audio.com launched a new swim audio workout featuring Olympic champion and open water swimmer Rebecca Soni. Her 30-minute workout covers her warm-up, focused technique drills, intervals, and cool down. Her 30-minute workout includes a 5-minute easy swim with freestyle and backstroke, a 5-minute kicking set, a 5-minute pulling
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Swimmers and fans around the world expected Grace van der Byl to win the Manhattan Island Marathon Swim. It took 2 attempts for the California marathon swimmer to realize her goal in completing the 28.5-mile circumnavigation around Manhattan Island in New York, but she got the job done in
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. At American pool competitions, deck changing is prohibited. Also frowned upon at other events, deck-changing is often discouraged by race directors. But along the shorelines and coastal areas around the world, deck changing – or the act of wrapping a towel around the body in order to change into
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Nothing was as close as the third-place tie between Alex Meyer and Sean Ryan at today’s USA Swimming National Open Water Swimming Championships in Castaic Lake, California. Their hands touching the finish plate are shown above…barely. Individual split times were not taken at the USA Swimming National Open Water
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