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It came down to the finish once again with 7 men fighting for the gold medal in the 10 km marathon swim at the 2014 South American Games (X Juegos Suramericanos) in Laguna Curauma, a lake in Chile between Viña del Mar and Valparaíso near the coast, on Sunday. Among the lead pack, Allan Do […]
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27 men and women competed in the 10 km race at the 2014 South American Games (X Juegos Suramericanos) in Laguna Curauma, a lake in Chile between Viña del Mar and Valparaíso near the coast, on Sunday. Among the home town crowd, Chilean Olympian Kristel Köbrich Schimpl had a dominating swim to take top place
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Gotta respect those endurance athletes from Seal Beach, California. In a town made famous by extreme swimmer, renowned ice swimming inspiration and channel record holder Lynne Cox, another Seal Beach resident decided to challenge himself in a low-key, unprecedented manner. The swimmer, runner, paddle boarder and all-around endurance athlete wanted to do something different. Paul
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Steven Munatones recalled swimming with sharks, “When I saw one of these hammerhead sharks beneath me, it was spooky. When I saw two more hammerheads, it was getting downright scary. But when several dozens came around swimming silently, slowly, and gracefully beneath us in a circumnavigation swim around Yonaguni
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Few – if any in America – have combined elective office with a professional music career and a sensational marathon swimming career. But Kathleen Wilson was one of the few individuals – if not the only individual – who make this diverse trio of activities work well. “Sitting in an orchestra and playing beautiful repertoire
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Great swimmers, great locations, and a great challenge are the formula for an outstanding open water swim. Penny Palfrey*, Charleston and a 12-mile (19.3 km) circumnavigation is the formula for the 2014 Swim Around Charleston (SAC) held on September 21st. “The best benefits of open water swimming are the travel and the opportunity to see
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The 3 km mixed team pursuit event at the 2014 South American Games (X Juegos Suramericanos) in Santiago, Chile had no real surprise at the top of the podium. Brazil, the best performing open water swimming nation at the 2013 FINA World Championships in Barcelona, Spain last summer, proved its dominance once again with a
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The first live telecast with Diana Nyad pairing up with professional dancer Henry Byalikov will be shown tonight in America on Dancing With the Stars. “I’m a huge fan of both dancing and the show so here’s one of my dreams come true,” describes Nyad. “My partner is [28-year-old Australian] Henry Byalikov, a sublime dancer,
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FINA announced last week that the venue of the upcoming FINA Open Water Swimming Grand Prix event (scheduled for March 29th) and the FINA 10K Marathon Swimming World Cup race (scheduled for April 5th) had been changed from the west coast of Mexico in Manzanillo to Cancún in the east on the Yucatán Peninsula. There
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Southern Californian Mallory Mead wrote a newsletter article on the hardest thing she faces about being a marathon swimmer. “It’s a difficult question to answer,” the pro swimmer writes. “One might expect that the most difficult part about being a professional marathon swimmer is the 20-30 hours a week I spend in the pool, or
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