After 24 Hours, One Man Was Standing – Ray Meltvedt
Several swimmers attempted to swim around 27 piers in Southern California within 24 hours.
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Paula Yankauskas Is 2013 NEKOWSA Swimmer Of The Year
With this year’s 5-mile Lake Willoughby Swim in the books and the 2013 Northeast Kingdom Open Water Swimming Association’s season coming to a close with the end of the Swim The Kingdom Week, Paula Yankauskas of Hyde Park, Vermont was selected as the 2013 NEKOWSA Open Water Swimmer of the Year. With 40 open water
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Temp Tepid For Gábor Molnár’s Half-Day Marathon
Even swimming 48.5 km at a water temp of 14ºC (57ºF), the conditions did not get to Hungarian Gábor Molnár. Starting at 6 am from the dam of Békésszentsndrás and finishing on the beach of Csongrád, where the river Körös flows into the bigger river the Tisza in Hungary, Molnár completed his longest swim ever
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Survivors Fear No Pier Down The California Coast
After a long night, an entire morning, and most of the afternoon swimming around 19 piers along the California coast, the 14 swimmers who started the Fear No Pier stage swim have been reduced to a handful. As predicted but in unexpected ways, the Fear No Pier adventure has not been easy. “We have almost
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Vadim Ilyuschenko Creates The Azov Sea Marathon
Vadim Ilyuschenko is an open water swimmer and race director from Donetsk, Ukraine. Like many others around the world, his passion for swimming and the open water is being manifested through the organization of a new swim. Ilyuschenko helped promote the Donbass Open Aquatics Festival in 2012 and is now adding to his open water
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Mo Is Better The Longer He Goes
Elaine Howley of the Massachusetts Open Water Swimming Association reported that Mo Siegel became the sixth person in history to complete the P2P Swim (Cape Cod Bay Swim). After a century of trying, only Russell Chaffee in 14 hours 40 minutes in 1968, Greg O’Connor in 10 hours 22 minutes in 2012, Janet Harris (2012),
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Emily von Jentzen Is On Track Across Canyon Ferry Lake
En route to the first 70-mile (112 km) crossing of Canyon Ferry Lake in Montana, Emily von Jentzen is right on track swimming along at a 2-miles-per-hour pace after her 3 am start this early morning. The weather has been good as forecasted. Before she started, there was a slight lightening storm, but it fortunately
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Nejib Belhedi Swims Along The International Date Line
Escorted by Carol Breiter and a local support crew, Nejib Belhedi of Tunisia completed a south-to-north 4 km solo swim along the International Date Line yesterday near Little Diomede Island in the Bering Strait after being delayed by weather conditions. “He entered the water sans a wetsuit at 16:28 and exited 37 minutes later on
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Stephen Redmond’s Next Big Step From Ireland To Wales
After climbing to the top of the channel swimming charts last year with his Oceans Seven exploit, Stephen Redmond is wasting no time at continuing to push the envelope further and colder. Noel Browne, his colleague on his challenges, explains, “For Stephen‘s latest exploit, he is planning on taking on the 50 miles (80.4 km)
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T Minus 10ºC – Has Fergal Somerville Set The Standard?
T Minus 10ºC – Has Fergal Somerville Set The Standard? Courtesy of WOWSA, North Channel, Northern Ireland – Scotland. When Fergal Somerville of Dublin completed the first North Channel crossing of 2013, he may have set the standard in cold water endurance. When Somerville completed the North Channel in 12 hours 21 minutes on June
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