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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The Crippen Cup 10k Marathon Invitational, a memorial swim for the beloved American swimmer Fran Crippen will be held this weekend in Miromar Lakes Beach and Golf Club in Fort Myers, Florida. Many fast open water swimmers will be there including most of the USA Swimming national open water […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The swimming world has long borrowed and adapted tactics, training, and technologies from other sports. Intervals, fartlets, video analysis, gel packs, racing chips are a few things borrowed from the sporting world. Ron Collins has now adapted a technology from the sailing world on behalf of the open water
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. As part of the annual Open Water Swimming Festival on April 12th in Miromar Lakes in Estero, Florida, USA Swimming is rolling out its finest open water swimming educators and motivators on the sport. An all-star line-up of youth and experience will team up to explain techniques, training and
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Photo shows the start of the 2013 State King of the Bays race with Rangitoto Island in the background. $32,000 in cash goes on the line this weekend as Australasia’s open water swimmers line up to conclude the New Zealand Ocean Swim series. The 2.8 km State King of
Reporting courtesy of Jonathan Rauh, Darcy Blake Wettersten, Kim Chambers, and WOWSA. In the 20th century before the integration of GPS technology in channel swimming and marathon swimming, there were more than a few occasions when swimmers crossed a body of water guided by the headlights of cars parked on the shoreline. As night feel
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Photo of post-swim Craig Lenning by Vito Bialla. It took a team of believers and one very hard-core man from the mountains to finally end 47 years of non-success from the Farallon Islands. Craig Lenning, supported by captain Vito Bialla, navigator David Holscher, co-captain Patrick Horn, crew chief Jamie Patrick and observer Evan Morrison, started
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Photo of Craig Lenning courtesy of Vito Bialla, currently 4.4 nautical miles from the California mainland. As night is falling, Captain Vito Bialla and crew are escorting Craig Lenning to Muir Beach due to a intensely thick fog that has shrouded the area around San Francisco Bay. “There was no flood tide and there was
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Maratón Acuático Ruta del Arrecife Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The Maratón Acuático Ruta del Arrecife is an open water swimming competition held in Puerto Morelos in Quintana Roo, Mexico on the Yucatán Peninsula, about 36 km south of Cancún. The race was founded by Fernando Betanzos Tenorio and is organized by Ivan Torres.
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Photo of Craig Lenning courtesy of Vito Bialla, currently 10.3 statute miles from the Farallon Islands and 19.9 statute miles to the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California. From what is described as the most desolate islands in the Pacific, Craig Lenning with a support crew of Vito Bialla, David Holscher, Patrick Horn, Jamie
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. There are a handful of people in the open water swimming world who are universally admired and respected for their accomplishments, efforts, and solo swims, but even more so for their leadership, knowledge, and passion. From Ned Denison to Lynne Cox, Kevin Murphy to Keri-Anne Payne, Melissa Gorman to
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