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40-something-year-olds Dale LeClair and Luther Davis won their respective divisions at the inaugural 8-mile Alligator Reef Lighthouse Swim in Islamorada in the Florida Keys. Race director Jonathan Strauss summed up the first-year marathon swim, “The race was great with a lot fewer jellyfish than were present a few weeks ago.” More information and photos to […]
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Randy Bennett was honored as Swimming Canada’s 2013 National, International and Open Water Coach of the Year. In addition to coaching Ryan Cochrane and Hilary Caldwell to medals at the 2013 FINA World Championships in Barcelona, Bennett also coached Eric Hedlin who finished second at the 5 km race to Ous Mellouli. Copyright © 2013
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MONTAGE 3KM GRAND CRU / VELO CAFE from EnduranceAventure on Vimeo. The 3KM Grand Cru / Velo Cafe is a 3 km ship-to-shore swim held in lac Memphrémagog in Magog, Quebec, Canada and organized by Endurance Adventure. This year’s event was won by Davy Billiau of Belgium despite his goggles coming off. Copyright © 2013
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Henley Swim’s Bridge to Bridge Swim is a 14.1 km marathon swim held in Henley, England. The field is divided into groups according to speed where the field exits the river 4 times as they navigate the locks and weirs and take in 4 feeding stops.
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Adriane Grimaldi is an American open water swimmer and snorkeler from Scottsdale, Arizona. She swam 5 miles across the Cayman Brac Channel starting at the West End on Cayman Brac and finishing on Sandy Point on Little Cayman Island. Without a right hand. Grimaldi was born without a right hand with a condition known as
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Dave Van Mouwerik has been swimming and paddling outrigger canoes all his adult life. The 55-year-old California has crossed traditional channels (Catalina + Anacapa) as well as completed a number of California coastal swims. But he was looking for something different in 2013. “I had a good time over the last year identifying a Swedish
Julian Rusinek fulfilled his 2-year goal today by becoming the first person to swim from San Miguel Island to Santa Rosa Island, two of the California Channel Islands. 2 hours 25 minutes after pushing off San Miguel Island, he reached Santa Rosa to the barks of hundreds of elephant seals and sea lions. Marine life,
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Over the last two years, Anna Wardley has been raising money for the Samaritans (www.samaritans.org), The Ellen McArthur Trust (www.ellenmacarthurcancertrust.org), and Sail Africa (sailafrica.org). She has taken it upon herself to swim around Dragonera (Mallorca, Spain), Portsea (Hampshire, UK), Jersey (Channel Islands), Tiree (Inner Hebrides, Scotland) and the Isle of Wight (Solent, UK). Driven by
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Video with world champion Thomas Lurz of Germany: Copyright © 2013 by Open Water Swimming
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For centuries, men and women have purposefully immersed themselves in cold water for a variety of reasons. From monks in Japan and Russians in Siberia to early-morning swimmers in the Serpentine and their counterparts from the Americas to Oceania, these extremists have pushed the limits of what is physically and psychologically possible. Each extremist had
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