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Andreas Kleesiek is a German open water swimmer who is part of the largest voluntary water rescue organization in the world: the Deutsche Lebens-Rettungs-Gesellschaft (DLRG) known in English as the German Life Saving Association. Kleesiek plays a part in DLRG Ortsgruppe Augustdorf by focusing on media relations. The DLRG is a non-profit lifesaving organization in […]
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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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When James Penrose (shown on left), John DaPrato and David Cook (shown below) started off in Spain to cross the Strait of Gibraltar, one issue was if or when they were going to swim together the entire way or separate at some point, both from themselves and Rafael Gutiérrez Mesa, their escort captain and the
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Under the leadership of Chief Organiser Oleg Dokuchaev together with Nikolay Khitrik, Lurii Melnikov, Sergei Chernukhin, Dmitrii Timofeev and Doctors Nataliya Fatyanova, Irina Zhidkova and Carlos Eduardo Reges, the 66 swimmers on the Bering Strait Swim were well-attended to. The staff and equipment of the mother ship used in 53-mile (86 km) stage relay was
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60-year-old John DaPrato, 61-year-old James Penrose, and 42-year-old David Cook met up on the shores of Spain to knock off one of the Oceans Seven channel: the Strait of Gibraltar. Penrose completed his third Oceans Seven channel with his 5 hour 4 minute crossing. “We had good conditions and it absolutely great to see white
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If there is a hub of the open water swimming world, it is the race directors who work tirelessly to provide entertaining, safe and challenging open water swims around the world. They create local communities and annual celebrations of open water swims. Chris Gardner of Hawaii is the race director for the North Shore Swim
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Alexander Golubkin was a brave boy among an intrepid group of adventurers from around the world during the unprecedented Bering Strait Swim relay, a 53-mile (86 km) relay crossing from Cape Dezhnev in Chukotka, Russia, to Cape Prince of Wales in the state of Alaska, USA. With his father and fellow ice swimmer Alexei Golubkin
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From the Serpentine lido in 1955 in England to a modern-day Tokyo water park in Japan, swimming is it. Copyright © 2013 by World Open Water Swimming Association
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Copyright © 2013 by Phil White of the Northeast Kingdom Open Water Swimming Association escorting swimmers in Lake Willoughby, Vermont
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