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World Open Water Swimming Federation, a human-powered project
Local Senegalese swimmer Adama Thiaw Ndir won the men’s race and American Meredith Stakem won the women’s division at the 26th edition of the Traversée Dakar – Gorée. The 5.2 km race stretched from Thiaroye to La Voile d’Or in Senegal which saw swimmers from Senegal, Nigeria, Mali and Gambia participate. Meredith Stakem, the Regional […]
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Milko van Gool is on the move again. The Dutch open water swimmer completed the English Channel in 2011 (10 hours 22 minutes), crossed Lake Malawi in 2013, and set the men’s record for crossing the North Channel from Ireland to Scotland this July in 10 hours 34 minutes. Professionally, van Gool is employed by
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On the shores of Waikiki Beach and many resorts worldwide, the happiness of newlywed couples is occasionally punctuated by extreme regret and sadness. Not for marrying the person of their dreams, but because they have lost their wedding ring in the joy of swimming in the ocean. Tears from newlyweds can be avoided now with
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The feet: they can be tough and hardened or soft and sensitive. For those whose feet are on the soft and sensitive side, they often hate walking on soft peddles in a parking lot or on icky things in the shallow water. They dislike walking barefoot on burning hot sand on the beach during summer
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Back in 1972, no local was surprised when 12-year-old Kathy Shipman finished first in the women’s division at the 3rd Waikiki Roughwater Swim and fifth overall. The young talent was an outstanding pool and open water swimmer who was on USA Swimming national teams competing internationally when she was ranked fourth in the world at
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Deborah Milan Brudvig is an American masters swimmer, artist, freelance cellist, teacher, coach, and owner/founder of SwimMuse. She also specializes in teaching adults and using Total Immersion swim techniques at her local pool in Alexandria, Virginia. She founded SwimMuse in 2003 where she was able to combine her love and talents in both swimming and
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Usually when a group of masters swimmers gather in a pool without a coach, they can come up with a few good training sets that matches the desires and needs of everyone in the group. Usually an alpha dog proposes a tough set and then the rest of the swimmer negotiate the intervals, distances, and
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As Tim Root drove across the world’s second longest bridge over a body of water, the seeds of his next marathon swim were planted. Root is a 30-year-old marathon swimmer and masters swimming administrator from Baton Rouge, Louisiana who previously tackled the 27-mile END-WET swim, but his biggest challenge is soon coming up in Lake
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What we love about the King and Queen of the Sea (Rei e Rainha do Mar) series in how many disabled athletes participate and how readily the volunteers and staff come to their aid at the start and up along the beach at the finish. But set these athletes off in the water and they
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Kent Solheim has been a man on a mission. Solheim is the Founder and Executive Director of Gold Star Teen Adventures. He current mission is to raise funds for the foundation and complete a 50 km (31.68 mile) ocean relay called the 50KM Freedom Swim for Gold Star Teen Adventures. The 50 km charity swim
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