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The International Swimming Hall of Fame selected its first recipient of the new Poseidon Award. A handsome trophy with Poseidon rising out of the sea with a trident in one hand, the Poseidon Award recognizes those individuals who have gone beyond the call of duty and elevated the world of open water swimming in a […]
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Nick Adams was formally inducted in the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame due to his storied career as a channel swimmer and administrator. Characteristically cool and handsomely humble, Adam kept his acceptance speech as brief as his (two-way) channel swims are long. The Eton College mathematics teacher Adams has been involved in English Channel
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Right before a break in the 2013 Global Open Water Swimming Conference, Ned Denison explained about the background and history of swimming around nearby Sandycove Island and how the passionate community of open water swimmers developed in Cork, Ireland. Then suddenly, as if on queue with Liam Maher in the lead, the audience broke out
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Juan Ignacio Martínez Fernández-Villamil received the 2012 WOWSA Award for the World Open Water Swimming Performance of the Year. The heart and soul of Descenso a Nado de la Ría de Navia works year-round on putting together the most comprehensive open water swimming festival in the world – from parades to festivals, from amateur swims
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From the opening reception at the City Hall with the Lord Mayor to the final Atlantic Ocean swim around Sandycove Island, the hosts and organisers of the 2013 Global Open Water Swimming Conference out-did themselves. In addition to gathering the luminaries of the sport, Oswald Schmidt kept the activities, speakers, and networking going strong throughout
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Anna Marie Ward and Nuala Moore showed off their Bering Time watches at the 2013 Global Open Water Swimming Conference. Veterans of the Bering Strait Swim, they made an eye-opening, mindset-shattering, dramatically stunning presentation of their 5-day exploit from Russia to Alaska. They described how they put their faith in the Russian military personnel who
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There are certain venues around the world where the luminaries of the sport have gathered and enjoyed particularly magical waters: Dover, Brighton, Waikiki, Aquatic Park, Copacabana, Acapulco, Midmar Dam, and Sydney among many other locations. One of those places in Sandycove Island. Its slipway is so simple, but it is a perfect entrance as you
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Several ice swimmers including those from Finland’s Winter World Swimming Championships and several of the swimmers who participated in the renowned Bering Strait Swim gathered in Cork, Ireland at the 2013 Global Open Water Swimming Conference. Ram Barkai, Anne Marie Ward, Nuala Moore, and Jackie Cobell were among the 66 swimmers from 17 countries and
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Christof Wandratsch and David Frantzeskou of Folkestone’s Varne Ridge Holiday Park were able to catch up at the 2013 Global Open Water Swimming Conference where Wandratsch gave a presentation on his latest exploit, an unprecedented swim across the Bodensee, the largest lake in Germany. The 46-year-old marathon swimmer, still the third fastest person across the
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Mercedes Gleitze wrote many years ago, “Sea swimming is a beautiful thing, in fact an art. An art whose mistress should be not the few, but the many. What could possibly speak more for man’s prowess as an athlete than the ability to master earth’s most abundant, most powerful element – water, no matter what
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