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It came down to the very end with Italian teammates Simone Ercoli and Edoardo Stochino going stroke for stroke after 57 km down the Coronda River in Argentina. But it was Ercoli who came out on top for the second time in his 2014 campaign, by 3 tenths of a second after over 8 hours. […]
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At the 2013 Irish Long Distance Swimming Association Awards, Kevin Murphy gave a captivating presentation of his 3 swims across the North Channel to a room of luminaries of the sport of open water swimming from ice swimmers to channel swimmers. This is a bit of a trip down memory lane for me, so shout
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The Open Water Development Committee that consists of coaches, athletes, USA Swimming staff and administrators, instituted a rule change to the qualification standards for 2015 USA Swimming National Open Water Swimming Championships at the 2013 United States Aquatic Sports Convention. Although only 4 athletes will be impacted, USA Swimming decided that the winner of each
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With snow creating a nice frame around Windermere, the second Big Chill Swim took place over a wintery weekend in Windermere, England’s largest lake. With a warm smile and reportedly ice in his veins, race organizer Colin Hill converted the Low Wood Bay Marina into an open air swimming pool for the spectacular winter swimming
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It is a jet-setting life Ashley Twichell leads. From airport to airport, city to city, ocean to lake, pool to pool, the professional open water swimmer adds up the air mileage a la masters swimmers Barbara Held, Ned Denison and Roger Finch. The trio literally travel around the world in search of open water swims.
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In this Rio Olympic quadrennial, Brazilian swimmers are making things very interesting: the Brazilian 1-2 combination of Poliana Okimoto and Ana Marcela Cunha is getting harder and harder to beat. They were hard to beat at the 2013 FINA World Championships in Barcelona, Spain and the duo was unstoppable at this weekend’s La Patagones Viedma
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After the Irish Long Distance Swimming Association Awards, the organising committee decided to celebrate with a swim in Lake Camlough where bioprene reigned despite the 4ºC (39ºF) water. Swimmers from Ulster, Munster, Leinster, Connaught and Russia participated including Ger Kennedy, Jane Murphy, Kevin Murphy, Pádraig Mallon, John McElroy, Keith Garry, David Burke, Alison Cardwell, Barry
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Jarrod Poort is gradually coming into his own among elite open water swimmers as he upset a world-class field at the 10 km Swim The Swan event at the BHP Aquatic Super Series in Perth’s Swan River yesterday. The results are as follows: 1. Jarrod Poort 1:54:16.00 2. Simon Huitenga 1:54:19.59 3. Rhys Mainstone 1:54:23.79
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American teammates, roommates, friends and rivals Ashley Twichell and Haley Anderson will see a lot more of each other throughout their entire careers, especially in the lead-up to the 2016 Rio Olympics. Swimming shoulder-to-shoulder has become as commonplace as looking for the turn buoys among these two leading American open water swimmers. But yesterday it
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Heidi Gan of Malaysia proved her upward trajectory among elite women when she captured the women’s division of the 5 km Swim The Swan event at the BHP Aquatic Super Series in Perth’s Swan River yesterday. The results are as follows: 1. Heidi Gan 59:58.17 2. Jaime Bowler 1:04:05.56 3. Sigrid De Vries 1:07:24.57 4.
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