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Safer Swimmers Expand In Lake Cane Video courtesy of Doc Lucky Meisenheimer, Chief Ambassador of the Lucky’s Lake Swim in Florida, on location in Lake Cane on behalf of SaferSwimmer™. The ISHOF SaferSwimmer™ Float is specifically designed to provide a safety aide for open water swimmers, serving three important functions without hindering performance or their […]
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A Renaissance man is often applied to the gifted people of the Renaissance era (from the 14th to 17th century) who sought to develop their full intellectual, artistic, social and physical capabilities. The term often describes the great thinkers like Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Galileo Galilei, and Francis Bacon. So if that term was used
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The current water temperature in the Lake District’s Windermere was measured at 17.1ºC this morning. The elite athletes at this weekend’s Great North Swim were informed of the possibility of a traditional neoprene race becoming a non-wetsuit race. The final decision will be taken on Sunday, in the morning
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Jose Luis Larrosa Chorro is a whirlwind of activity in the open water swimming world. Not only does he own an athletic goods shop called Disseny Sport that caters to pool and open water swimmers, water polo players, triathletes, synchronized swimmers, ballerinas, ice skaters, and gymnasts, but he has
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. “While I’m swimming, I sing songs in my mind,” says Olympic champion Alexandr Popov Music in your head is something most swimmers have experienced. Songs can very easily and quite arbitrarily pop into your head, often without any rhyme or reason. Kaia Hedlund, president of the Waikiki Roughwater Swim,
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. One kilometer out at sea, Paddle Out for Sharks organiser Karen Wadsworth had even more cause to celebrate World Oceans Day on June 8th when her boyfriend Stephen Borain proposed to her right at the end of the Paddle Out for Sharks ceremony held just off backline at Scottburgh
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For more information on the veteran open water swimmer from South Carolina as reported by the local media, visit WBAL TV here and Washington Post at the annual Great Chesapeake Bay Swim. Copyright © 2014 by World Open Water Swimming Association
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Tom Park, a 1998 Honour Swimmer in the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame, Margaret Park, a 2000 Honour Swimmer in the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame, and their brother George Park all participated in the 10-mile Hamilton Marathon Race, professional marathon swim on the World Professional Marathon
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Courtesy of Lynn Kubasek from the Great Salt Lake, Utah. I recently had the opportunity to swim the Great Salt Lake Open Water Marathon Swim. This is an 8-mile swim that traverses a path from Antelope Island to Blackrock Beach. I learned that it is part of the Triple Crown of Utah Open Water Swimming.
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Courtesy of Sueno 88 by Vito Bialla with swimmers Luane Rowe, Susan Moody, Mauricio Prieto, Richard Ernst, Shannon Navarro, and David Ogden Copyright © 2014 by Night Train Swimmers
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