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World Open Water Swimming Federation, a human-powered project
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Nejib Belhedi will be greeting many Tunisian and some foreign guest swimmers in Tozeur, Tunisia for the Ouma of Dunes 2014 event from May 24th – 27th. For open water swimmers who are fans of Hollywood films, the locations of the Ouma of Dunes sites include many oases and […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Honour Swimmers Elizabeth Fry from the U.S.A., Sandra Bucha (U.S.A.), and Vojislav Mijić from Serbia, Honour Administrators James Anderson from the U.S.A. and Dr. Jane Katz from the U.S.A., and Honour Organisation Indonesian Swimming Federation will be formally added to the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame Trophy (Sea
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Courtesy of Noosa Ultimate Sports Test, Huntington Beach, California. If there is anyone to learn from in the open water swimming community, it is Trent Grimsey. Solo swims across the English Channel, world championship races, cold water marathon swims from Poland and South Africa to Canada, invitational swims in warm tropical seas and the turbulent
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Photo and amazing story courtesy of Rob Kent of L.O.S.T. (Lake Ontario Swim Team). Follow Kent’s story of how he worked hard to save a man’s life that eventually led him to the Boston Marathon here. Photo shows Rob Kent and his runner wife Joanne.
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Swimming in close proximity to a pack in large bodies of water: such is the nature of competitive open water swimming. When large packs of swimmers start together, go around a turn buoy together, or unintentionally swim into each other, there are always potential and elements of physicality. No
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. In September 2007 across the Straits of Mackinac, 50 swimmers celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Mackinac Bridge between Michigan’s upper and lower peninsulas with another 50,000+ thousand colleagues. The 50 members of Team Dire Straits raised over US$58,000 for Mentor Michigan in a charity swim organized by Jim
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Go to any open water swim around the world and it is easy to see that open water swimmers comes in all kinds of shapes and sizes. So Speedo took that fact, did some homework and addressed the concerns of its female clientele. Speedo recently introduced a range of
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The 24-mile Tampa Bay Marathon Swim, the 28.5-mile Manhattan Island Marathon Swim, and the 22.5-mile Around the Island Marathon Swim in Atlantic City, New Jersey are a tough trio of swims on the East Coast of America. No one has done all three of these swims but the American
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Marathon swimmer. Race director. Promoter. Official. Administrator. Vojislav Mijić of Serbia has done it all and will be inducted in the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame as an Honour Swimmer at the 2014 Global Open Water Swimming Conference in Scotland on the Isle of Bute at the Mount
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. With the water in Camlough Lake in Ireland about 10-11ºC (50-51.8ºF), the community is heading to the shoreline. This event poster provides a great imagery for the reality of the first open water swim of the event. There are the confident swimmers – swimmers who have acclimated to the
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