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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Open water swimmers often apply sunscreens and sunblocks to their skin in order to prevent sunburn, suntan, and swimmer’s tans of all types. But swimmers have unique body tanning locations including raccoon eyes and panda eyes due to their goggless as well as swim cap tans due to their […]
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12 different far-out futuristic products for the open water swimming community.
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The Time Freight Lake Heritage 3 km Challenge, one of Africa’s Top 100 Open Water Swims, will be held this weekend on March 30th in South Africa. “This event offers both 1500m and 3 km distances providing ideal training opportunities for triathletes gearing up for the upcoming Ironman and
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. After a thrilling start in Argentina, the world’s fastest marathon swimmers are on the beach at the Ocean Maya Royale hotel in Playa del Carmen near Cancún, Mexico. The group of 11 women and 21 men from 15 countries will participate in the third stage of the FINA Open
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. After a thrilling start in Argentina, the world’s fastest marathon swimmers are on the beach at the Ocean Maya Royale hotel in Playa del Carmen near Cancún, Mexico. The group of 11 women and 21 men from 15 countries will participate in the third stage of the FINA Open
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Marc West of Mr. Science Show reported a swim cap collection – a Swim Cap Amnesty – to be held at the Coogee Island Challenge Ocean Swim in Sydney, Australia. “We’re doing a swimming cap collection for various good causes. Since the start of the 2013/2014 ocean swimming season,
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Luke Birch swam across the English Channel in 2010 under the tutelage of International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame Honour Swimmer Nick Adams in 14 hours 45 minutes at the age of 17. Having completed such a monumental achievement as a teenager, Birch set off to study a bit
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Four Types Of Open Water Swimmers Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. In the global community of open water swimming, we have observed fundamentally 4 general groups of athletes: 1. Competitive swimmers (i.e., youth, teenage or young adult athletes who are currently or former age-group swimmers or collegiate swimmers) 2. Masters swimmers (i.e., adult athletes
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Jean McKensie was a Carpinteria, California teenager who swam from Santa Barbara to Carpinteria in December 1926. The 19-year-old started together with Marjorie Buffington and Zane Steenrod along the West Coast of California, but she was the only person to finish according to the Press-Courier in Oxnard, California. Earlier that year, Steenrod made the first
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Phil White of Kingdom Games and Christian Vachon of the Fondation Christian Vachon announced a partnership to raise money for the Fondation. Kingdom Games organizes 13 days of open water swimming, 5 days of running, 14 days of cycling, 2 days of triathlons, 5 days of kayaking and 4
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