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Abhejali Bernardova, a runner-turned-swimmer, enjoyed plenty of company during her recent 4 hour 35 minute crossing of the Strait of Gibraltar. Dolphins accompanied her. Lots of them. Vasanti Niemz recalls, “She kept swimming without looking up for quite a while – because she was looking at the dolphins swimming only a few meters below her. […]
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The inaugural The Clock Is Ticking 7 Mile Swim in Georgia went smoothly. John Eunice sums up the weekend of open water swimming fun, “It was a great swim and everyone had a good time.” The event was a charity swim for the James Eunice Charity Fund and had 1-mile, 2.4-mile, and 3.5-mile races in
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68-year-old Don Riddington had achieved many things in life, but in the open water swimming world, he was a newbie. The Australian owner of a kayaking company called Spirited Away wanted to do something out-of-the-ordinary and special. So he turned to Grant Siedle and asked how he could swim the English Channel. He listened and
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Research has shown that keeping active, being creative, and doing things that you love leads to a healthy, fulfilling, long life. And if research needs any shining example of its conclusions, scientists need not look any further than Aart Looye in western Canada. The 69-year-old swimming coach, born in the Netherlands, not only leads is
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51-year-old Irene van der Laan, an Honour Swimmer in the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame from the Netherlands, completed her 20th Faros Maratón, the 16 km pro race in 4 hours 10 minutes. One of the fastest and most durable marathon swimmers in her heyday in the 1980s, van der Laan has been competing
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Olivier Ervyn, a Belgian who creates spectacular documentary photography, captured Alexander Studzinski trying to grab some hydration during the middle of the 2013 Faros Maratón in Croatia. Studzinski, the eventual winner of the 16 km marathon swim, spun over on his back too fast and missed a bit of his drink handed to him by
Olivier Ervyn, a Belgian who creates spectacular documentary photography in Africa, took some time off and instead captured great imagery at the 2013 Faros Maratón in Croatia. Nacho Grignaschi, coach of Argentina’s professional marathon swimmer Noelia Petti, is photographed while carefully sizing up the course and conditions, taking in the direction of the wind, the
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Olivier Ervyn, a Belgian who creates documentary photography, captured some great images at the 2013 Faros Maratón in Croatia. Alexander Studzinski, winner of the 16 km marathon swim, was fed by his fiancée Beatrix Eisel. Studzinski recalls this year’s race under near perfect conditions, “It was a nice race. We enjoyed great weather. And I
One of the most fascinating topics at the 2012 Global Open Water Swimming Conference in Long Beach, California was the discussion on how to get ice swimming into the Winter Olympics. Those discussions will undoubtedly continue at the 2013 Global Open Water Swimming Conference in Cork, Ireland. In addition to the Summer Olympics goal of
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Some marathon swimmers have discussed a new policy of declaring their swims assisted or unassisted prior to their swim. This is an admirable attempt in bringing uniformity and standardization across the globe in terms of how marathon swims are conducted in the established channels and lakes around the globe. But the issue of standardization get
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