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World Open Water Swimming Federation, a human-powered project
It was huge out there in the very best meaning of the word. It was fun…a total blast. The Clean Half was showered by perfect weather with a fairly calm and warm ocean, and only a few currents to deal with today in Hong Kong. A new course record for the solo 14.5 km was […]
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Nick Owen is a 50-year-old Australian from Melbourne and a member of the mighty tough Brighton Icebergers. Owen, like his fellow Icebergers, swims regularly in the sea, throughout the winter in water that can dip down to 7ºC. With that kind of training, the proud Iceberger has swum all over the world as has his
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The Open Water Swim Club held a fun practice in Huntington Beach, California when the water was a bit coolish for the younger members. Instead of a long, comfortable swim parallel along the shoreline, the team decided to do a BS To Ten workout. BS To Ten is an ocean workout where there is decent
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Lewis Pugh was one the inductees in the 2013 International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame ceremonies held at the 2013 Global Open Water Swimming Conference in Cork, Ireland. While he is primarily known for his cold-water swims in Antarctica, across the North Pole, and up 5,200 meters on Mount Everest, Pugh also has a knack
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“Melissa O’Reilly loves ice swimming,” recalls Dmitry Blokhin, the Deputy Chairman of the Murmansk City Sports Committee and organiser of the Murmansk Mile. “She has traveled all over Russia. She is a famous American.” With a growing resume of ice swimming accomplishments, O’Reilly of New Jersey certainly is. Murmansk Mile (Murmanskaja mila) is a 1.2
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Murmansk, Russia is the site of the 80th International Holiday of the North or the Polar Olympics on March 14th-16th, 2014. Dmitry Blokhin, the Deputy Chairman of the Murmansk City Sports Committee, announced free transportation on March 18th-19th to Rovaniemi, Finland for the participants of the 2014 Winter World Swimming Championships. Blokhin expects more than
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Doloranda Hannah Pember, the daughter of Mercedes Gleitze accepted her mother’s award as an Honour Pioneer Swimmer at 2013 the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame ceremonies in Cork, Ireland. Pember is putting together an biography of her mother that covers her mother’s swimming career and the way she managed it. “The biography is littered
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Don Watson received an honor long overdue. With innumerable great pool and open water swimmers who developed under his tutelage, Watson was more than appreciative of the Honour Administrator award he received at the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame. With John Kinsella, one of his most outstanding professional marathon swimmers over a career that
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Two-time Olympic medalist and the most successful open water swimmer in world championship history, Thomas Lurz has written a book with Yasmin M. Fargel called Auf der Erfolgswelle schwimmen: Was junge Menschen wissen müssen, um erfolgreich zu werden. Published by GABAL in 2012 and available in German, the title is roughly translated into English as
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