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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Confederación Sudamericana de Natación (CONSANAT or the South American Swimming Confederation) confirmed the 2014 South American Championships will be held in October in Mar del Plata and Buenos Aires, Argentina. Open water events (5 km on October 26th, 10 km on the 28th, and 5 km team pursuit on […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. California ultra-marathon swimmer Jamie Patrick has 3 months to go before his unprecedented Great Lake Swim. The swim date has been moved back to August 18th and the distance has been settled upon 71 miles between Milwaukee Bay and Ohio Street Beach in Chicago Harbor. The Wisconsin-to-Illinois swim is
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Paul Ellercamp of Oceanswims.com, seemingly forever an influential leader in the sport of open water swimming, always captures outstanding footage of ocean swimmers around Australia and elsewhere. At the Tamarama Ocean Swim in Australia, Oceanswims.com provided some excellent photography, especially of those who had a great start and a
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. American open water swimmer, event director and coach Suzie Dods of San Francisco, California has a motto, “The world is 75% water, swimming is a unifier.” She explains its origin. “I guess it just comes from my experience. Through swimming I have traveled to all sorts of different places
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Winston Crooke, President of the St. Kitts and Nevis Triathlon, organized another great channel crossing between Nevis and St. Kitts in the Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean Sea. The tiny island with plenty of beautiful open water swimming locations is the start of the annual StarMile2.5 Nevis-St. Kitts Cross-Channel
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The Nevis to St. Kitts Cross-Channel Swim, or the Bente Weber Memorial Swim, is a 2.5-mile inter-island Caribbean Sea swim across the Narrows from Nevis to St. Kitts. It starts at Oualie Beach on Nevis with the finish at Cockleshell Bay on St. Kitts in an area known as
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. French Creek Racing presents a series of 6 open water swimming races (800 meters each) from May through September in Bridgeport, Pennsylvania. The start is at the Upper Merion Boathouse on May 20th, June 17th, July 1st, July 22nd, August 26th, and September 16th. Each race starts at 7
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Besides keeping much of New York City cool with his well-established Ice Air climate control business, open water veteran Mo Siegel is going to swim yet again around Manhattan Island (3 solo Manhattan Island Marathon Swims + 1 relay) on July 12th for a few most excellent reasons. “To
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Klein Curaçao (English: Little Curaçao) is a small uninhabited island southeast of Curaçao in the Caribbean Sea. Part of the country of Curaçao, it has an old lighthouse that oversees the gorgeous diving spots, coral reef, and underwater caves that encircle the island. Amid the colorful fish and sea
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. S.C.A.R. brings out the stars: Sally Minty-Gravett, Elizabeth Fry, Mo Siegel, Hendrik Meerman, Scott Lautman, Janet Manning, Jim Fitzpatrick, Anna Delozier, Melodee Nugent, Cliff Crozier, Thomas W. Kofler, Kathryn Mason, and Courtney Paulk were just a few of the experienced veterans who took part in the 4-day marathon swimming
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