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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Simon Griffiths, publisher of H2Open Magazine announced the program me for the exciting Open Water Show on April 26th at the Reading Lake Hotel in West Berkshire, England. The entry of £15 (or £7.50 for H2Open Magazine subscribers) will enable you to listen to the following luminaries of the […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Larry Day, a lifelong competitive swimmer and a former butterflyer from the University of Michigan, has always thought about useful products for swimmers. Designer of My Pace Pal, an underwater pace clock for pool swimmers, the American attorney and inventor has now turned his creative energies to the open
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Alex Meyer comfortably and confidently won the men’s race at yesterday’s Crippen Cup in Fort Myers, Florida. It was another day in the life of Alex Meyer as the 2012 Olympian continued his winning streak in major races in America. His swim of 1 hour, 52 minutes and 47
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. USA Swimming reported that Ashley Twichell had the fastest touch in a photo-finish among Christine Jennings and Emily Brunemann at yesterday’s Crippen Cup in Fort Myers, Florida. The American rivals finished about as close as possible with one another: Twichell first in 2:04:23.65, Jennings second in 2:04:24.11, and Brunemann
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The Total Immersion in the English Channel is a fast group of older swimmers from America, England, and New Zealand – top-notch competitive swimmers – who will combine their collective skills and talents this summer in an English Channel relay. A few of them got together in London for
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. There were few people cheering more emphatically for the success of Craig Lenning in the Farallon Islands than the venerable Ted Erikson. Erikson knows very well first-hand what Lenning faced and had to overcome. Erikson completed the first swim from the Farallon Islands to the Golden Gate Bridge at
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Elena Nembrini is the open water swimming team manager for the Swiss Swimming Federation and a well-respected authority on the sport. From coaching to referring, from managing to administration, in a wide variety of languages (Italian, French, German, Swiss, Spanish and English), Elena Nembrini shares her passion and expertise
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The Evolutionary Digitalization Of Open Water Swimming Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The open water swimming community is rapidly and dramatically heading from paper and pen to laptops and the cloud. The digital comprehensive Observer Report by Evan Morrison that describes Craig Lenning‘s swim from the Farallon Islands to Muir Beach on the California
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Courtesy of Theodore Yach from Cape Town, South Africa. Theodore Yach and Martin Goodman successfully swam 22 km from Llandudno to Robben Island on April 8th where Yach finished in 7 hours 3 minutes and Goodman finished in 7 hours 16 minutes. This is their story: The original plan was for me to swim from
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Australian Olympian Melissa Gorman comfortably won this season’s State New Zealand Ocean Swim Series and the final race of the season on Auckland’s North Shore today. Her victory at the State King of the Bays, a 2.8 km swim from Milford Beach to Takapuna Beach, enabled her to take
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