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So many things can quickly go pear-shaped while swimming across the Molokai Channel in Hawaii: adverse weather conditions, shark encounters, jellyfish stings, humungus ocean swells, and massively powerful currents can all cause a swim to be stopped or delayed. Putting on a race on one specific day is tacking on another level of risk. Who […]
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The Faros Maratón was honored with an official postage stamp in Croatia. The annual Croatian International Long Distance Swimming Championships, a 16 km professional race from Stari Grad to Faros, was recognized by the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame as an Honour Organisation in 2012. For more information, visit here. Over 38 years nearly
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Oru Kayak has done it. The innovative company and designer Anton Willis just solved a huge issue for open water swimmers who wish to swim with an escort in far-away places…or even waters near their home. Willis created the Oru Kayak, a watertight 12-foot long kayak that folds in a carrying case that is nominated
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Swimming Smoothly With Paul Newsome & Adam Young Courtesy of WOWSA, Perth, Australia. Paul Newsome and Adam Young have developed Swim Smooth into arguably the finest swimming program in the world. Based on opposite parts of the world in Australia and the U.K., Newsome and Young have a global vision to improve the swimming technique
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The nominees for the World Open Water Swimming Man of the Year, World Open Water Swimming Woman of the Year, World Open Water Swimming Performance of the Year, and World Open Water Swimming Offering of the Year are announced here. Copyright © 2013 by World Open Water Swimming Association
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Christina Fonfe is the founder of the Sri Lanka Women’s Swimming Project (WSP), a non-profit organization founded after the 2004 tsunami where 80% of those who drowned were women and children. Up to 3 people drown every day still at Sri Lanka’s beaches, lakes and rivers. With over 1,000,000 drowning deaths per year, drowning is
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The WOWSA Awards, sponsored by the World Open Water Swimming Association, is an annual recognition of the world’s best open water swimmers, coaches, crew members, pilots, writers, associations, services and products in four different categories. The nominees for the World Open Water Swimming Man of the Year are always an heroic and courageous group of
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The WOWSA Awards, sponsored by the World Open Water Swimming Association, is an annual recognition of the world’s best open water swimmers, coaches, crew members, pilots, writers, associations, services and products in four different categories. The nominees for the World Open Water Swimming Woman of the Year are always an heroic and amazing group of
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The WOWSA Awards, sponsored by the World Open Water Swimming Association, is an annual recognition of the world’s best open water swimmers, coaches, crew members, pilots, writers, associations, services and products in four different categories. The nominees for the World Open Water Swimming Performance of the Year are always an heroic and amazing group of
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The nominees for the World Open Water Swimming Man of the Year, World Open Water Swimming Woman of the Year, World Open Water Swimming Performance of the Year, and World Open Water Swimming Offering of the Year are announced here. Copyright © 2013 by World Open Water Swimming Association
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