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Young Kaoru Yamanaka won the season-ending Japan International Open Water Swimming Association festival on beautiful Kumejima Island in Okinawa, Japan this weekend. Kumejima is often said to be one of the most beautiful of the Okinawa Islands which lie south of Japan and east of Taiwan with an ocean that is inviting and stunningly gorgeous. […]
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During March and April 2014, there will be an unprecedented 500 km charity stage swim attempt by Thane Guy Williams and Jonno Proudfoot from Mozambique to Madagascar on the Eastern African Front. Thane Guy Williams and Jonno Proudfoot are daredevils who are setting out in a mind-boggling adventure like the explorers of old. Stroke by
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Scott Zornig of the Santa Barbara Channel Swimming Association was ecstatic about the premiere of the film Driven over the weekend. He writes, “The film was a sell out and the theater had to turn away people at the door. The movie has everything…drama, action, laughter, disappointment and conquest. I thought it was one of
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The Certainty of Uncertainty Principle shed its ugly head as the 6-person team of Erell, Doron Amosi, Ben Enosh, Ori Sela, Oded Rahav, and Luc Chetboun with crew members Erez Amir, Nimrod Or, and Uri Brown was heading to the Israeli coast from their start on Cyprus in the Mediterranean Sea. But for the first
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What did Udi Erell, Doron Amosi, Ben Enosh, Ori Sela, Oded Rahav, and Luc Chetboun see underwater between Cyprus and Israel? Lots of blue. Erell explains about the Cyprus Israel Relay Swim‘s audacious 380 km (236-mile) attempt to swim from Cyprus to Israel, “We had to abort the swim about 2/3 of the way from
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Aleksandr Jakovlevs is Latvian ice swimmer and competition administrator extraordinaire. The 44-year-old ice swimmer from Jelgava has swum and worked in every Latvian Winter Swimming Championships since 2002 and in every Winter Swimming World Championships and Finnish Winter Swimming Championships from 2006. He organized every Jelgava Seals Cup since 2009 and was the race director
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“Most triathletes are under-prepared for their triathlon open water swim segment,” wrote Gerry Rodrigues in an interview with ESPN. “Introduce the extreme element of super cold water, coupled with their anxiety from a crowded field race environment, lack of prep, fast race start without warm-up, a tight wetsuit and a predisposed health condition, the formula
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The hosts of the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympic Games have designed and plans to utilize a compact Games concept. That is, most of the event venues – including Odaiba Marine Park where the Olympic 10K Marathon Swim will be held – will be concentrated within 8 kilometers from the Olympic Village. This concept will minimize
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Trent Grimsey won the inaugural The Five, a 5 km race in Hong Kong Island. The race organized by Doug Woodring of Open Water Asia and the Ocean Recovery Alliance was a point-to-point race ending in Repulse Bay. The top 10 male and female results are as follow: 1 Trent Grimsey 58:56 2 Lawrence Fanous
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Alper Sunaçoğlu continues to step up the distances and goals of his marathon swims. Sunaçoğlu swam 78 km from Mersin, the largest port in southern Turkey, to Cyprus in 26 hours 15 minutes in 2010. This year in August, he put aside his ambitious goal to swim in the
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