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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The stakes couldn’t be higher for the best open water swimmers Down Under heading into the penultimate round of the State New Zealand Ocean Swim Series at Mt Maunganui this Saturday. There have been different race winners in each of the four events so far this season in both […]
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People talk about shark-infested waters, but there are few places on Earth where there are so many documented Great White Sharks and an abundance of shark food as the 30-mile stretch between the California mainland and the Farallon Islands. People talk about cold-water swimming, but there are few places on Earth where people have swum
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Courtesy of Steven Munatones, Huntington Beach, California. From the early 1980s on to the early 21st century, the percentage of male and female swimmers in many open water swims around the United States has remained approximately 70%-30% (i.e., 7 men for every 3 women). But in the 21st century, especially over the last 5 years,
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Alison Terry knows her way around pool decks and the water as a former professional swimmer, member of the USA Swimming Board of Directors and swim coach with the Challenged Athletes Foundation. She uses that knowledge, expertise and experience to establish the Aquatic Jobs Network, an online job portal aimed specifically at the aquatics community.
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Nestled 1,200 miles (1,931 km) away from the Atlantic Ocean and 1,800 miles (2,896 km) away from the Pacific Ocean, the participants in the Swim The Bridge event continue to enjoy the sport year after year in Saylorville Lake along the Mile Long Bridge. The Swim The Bridge is is the only open water event
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Remigiusz Gołębiowski will set off on his 164 km Baltic Adventure, a wetsuit swim across the Baltic Sea from Sweden to Poland. His escort crew including his coaches, a doctor, a physiologist, and a psychologist estimates the swim will take him at least 48 hours, starting sometime within his window of August 4th and 10th
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After a brilliant career where she has earned world championships and Olympic medals, Italian superstar swimmer Martina Grimaldi was appointed as Cavaliere della Repubblica, knighthood in the Kingdom of Italy. For more information in Italian, visit Swimbiz. The order is bestowed by decree of the President of the Italian Republic, as head of the orders
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Norma Bastidas, a Mexican endurance athlete and mother, is on track during her swim leg to set the world’s longest triathlon. Her attempt of a 100-mile (162 km) stage swim, in the Caribbean Sea, a bike of 2,740 miles (4,409 km), and a run of 700 miles (1,126 km) is based on her effort to
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The Irish Long Distance Swimming Association (ILDSA) Events Calendar for 2014 is posted here. Hilda Moreno of The Great Dublin Swim explains, “The ILDSA Calendar of Events for 2014 is updated. Please use this link to find out more. Some races are still to be updated on March 31st.” The events with dates, distances, websites
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“I’ve come out of the Wilderness enough to know reentry is strange. It’s strange to hold a conversation with words that have no weight to make worthy a description the Wild encounter deserves. It’s strange to communicate when I’m not exactly sure the impact the experience has had on the person I find myself becoming.
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