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Down Under, there is no one more accomplished in the competitive open water world than 2-time Olympian Melissa Gorman. She will compete in Saturday’s State La Grande Swim in Akaroa, New Zealand. There’ll also be much interest in the women’s race with the first appearance of the summer of former world 5 km champion Gorman. […]
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The Cold Half and Cold Standard races in Hong Kong, organized by Open Water Asia, includes a 14 km extreme marathon swim from Stanley to Repulse Bay by 50 solo and relay swimmers on February 15th. The Cold Standard involves swimming the Cold Half solo (timing at the 10 km mark) and then running a
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The Cala Montgó Swim Festival has something for everyone. The event includes a 100m children’s swim, a 1.5 km swim, a relay, a 3 km swim, a 6 km swim, the 12 km Cala Montgó marathon swim, a concert, and swim camps. Organized by Culture Sport, the 3-day, 5-race event in Torroella de Montgrí in
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Jonathan Strauss announced the launch of the new 2014 Get Stoked Tour. “We have created events in 4 locations throughout the United States where athletes can swim, paddle and skate,” explains Strauss who also organizes Swim Miami. “We will be in Branson, Atlanta, Charlotte, and Portland. It brings 3 adventure lifestyle sports together in one
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A film directed and filmed by Thiago Da Costa and Timothy Wheeler about Diana Nyad‘s swim from Cuba to Florida with appearances by Forrest Nelson, Barbara Held, John Bartlett, Dr. Angel Yanagihara, Steven Munatones, Tamay Ozgokmen and Luke Tipple.
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Women have often set the bar in the open water. No distance, no temperature seems out of reach for the fairer sex. It has happened in lac St-Jean in Quebec, Canada, the Bering Strait, Beagle Channel, the Cayman Islands, and now it will happen in Turks & Caicos. Back in 1984, Canadian Christine Cossette attempted
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More than 1000 swimmers – from die-hard veterans to first-time newbies – braved gloomy conditions to take part in Murray Rose’s Malabar Magic Ocean Swim this past Sunday in Sydney, Australia. Enjoying a calm high tide and smooth conditions, entrants took to the waters at Malabar Beach to raise much-needed funds for The Rainbow Club
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Georgia Dore swam with Grant Cox in Murray Rose’s Malabar Magic Ocean Swim this past Sunday in Sydney, Australia. Dore was the Rainbow Club’s first member to compete in the Malabar Magic. Grant was the in-water guide for the 15-year-old adrenal cancer survivor who received the coveted Murray Rose Perpetual Award. The spirit of The
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At the 2014 Liaocheng International Winter Swimming event, Nuala Moore and Zhang Mei celebrate their sport with an international field of winter swimming friends. Zhang Mei is Secretary General of the Chinese Winter Swimming Committee with over 1 million registered Chinese winter swimmers. Together with her Chinese colleagues, she is working to quickly grow the
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Marisa Fockema wrote this article for the Witness on Hennie Muller: Hennie Muller, 59, from Tierpoort near Bloemfontein knows he could easily have drowned in this year’s Midmar Mile, just like Thabo van Straten. But unlike Van Straten, whose body was found five days after the race on Thursday, about 800m from the start, Muller
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