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There was no one happier than Michelle Simmons‘ daughter to see her finish at the 7 km Possibly Annual Hawaiian Christmas Looong Distance Invitational Rough-H2O Swim on Kaimana Beach in Honolulu, Hawaii this year – or last year. The triathlon and swimming coach knows first-hand how to navigate well through the ups and downs of […]
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Dr. Jane Katz is a renowned educator of all things aquatic, from synchronized swimming to open water swimming. Lauded by FINA and recanted honored by the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame, Dr. Katz got her start in swimming from two very familiar sources: her father and mother. Professor Leon Katz is an electric engineer
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Gordan Bilbija from Serbia got his start in swimming when he hurt his spine. At the age of 14, he could not walk normally and spent 6 months lying prone in bed paralyzed. Bilbija and his father went to many different doctors looking for a miracle, but no one was able to help the young
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Vito Bialla is teaming up with Susan Moody and Mauricio Prieto, two other powerful fundraisers when it comes to charity swims in a 6-person relay attempt across the Sea of Cortez in Mexico. A sextet of Bialla, Moody, Prieto, Luane Rowe, Richard Ernst and Antonio Argüelles will raise more money on their 88-mile (141.6 km)
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Rouven Blankenfeld was the Director of the documentary film Defeating Oceans Seven about Stephen Redmond‘s quest to achieve the Oceans Seven. This year, he directed an episode of Explorers: Adventures of the Century, a television series of 30-minute segments on some of the world’s most courageous explorers and adventurers in partnership with Outside Television and
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Cristián Fredes announced the call for applications to the 20th Maratón Acuática Internacional Ciudad de Rosario in Rosario, Argentina to be held on January 26th 2014. “The event is open to all members of FINA Affiliated Federations. The entry deadline is December 29th, 2013. All entries, signed by the respective national federation, must be sent
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At the recent Tyumen Open Winter Swimming Cup in Siberia, Russia in water just above its freezing point – 0.8ºC (33.4ºF) – elite ice swimmer Henri Kaarma of Estonia channeled his inner strengths – both physical and mental – to do what appeared to be the impossible. The 39-year-old Estonian, nicknamed the Iceman, makes his
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David Barra and Clare Kelly-Barra are gearing up for another swim from Lighthouse Beach to Sunrise Beach in Eleuthera in the Bahamas. This year in March, Barra swam 22 miles along the coast together with Kelly-Barra, Scott Aland, Rachel Shapiro and Jai Leal on his crew. Starting at 6:45 am, Barra traversed the distance in
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Ron Davis is an American open water swimmer from Florida who set the 70-74 age group record in Lake Cane in Orlando, Florida with a time of 39:50. Davis set his record when he completed a crossing in the lake, swimming for the first time without a pull buoy to aid him. No equipment, no
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In creating a list of great American areas for open water swimming (see here), we purposefully put Honolulu, Hawaii as Number One (no ka oi). After swimming around the world and observing swimmers and reporting on events on five continents, there are many scenic locations and wonderfully hospitable communities of open water swimmers, but there
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