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Experienced South African swimmer Kevin Grey won the first cold water swim to be held in the Eastern Cape when he dominated the 7.5 km JBay Cold Water Swim Classic at Marina Martinique yesterday. PJ Duffey who lead the race up to the 5 km mark finished second as the 12.5ºC (54.5ºF) water eventually sapping […]
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From Juneau, Alaska, Kristin Jones traveled across the North American continent and won the 2013 World Open Water Swimming Association 10 Mile World Championship at the Kingdom Swim in Lake Memphremagog, Vermont. After reeling in the leaders including Emma Otto-Moudry over the second half of the 16.2 km course, we asked Jones about the Kingdom
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Last Saturday, Northwestern University All-American swimmer Eric Nilsson won the World Open Water Swimming Association 10 Mile World Championship at the Kingdom Swim in Lake Memphremagog, Vermont. After pushing himself to the limit and being pushed by teenager Feodor Orlov over the entire 16.2 km course, we asked the veteran about the Kingdom Swim. Daily
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We believe the first open water swimming competition available for women in Iran was held at Noshahr northern beach in the Caspian Sea in July 2009. That inaugural race was a 3 km race was held under Islamic regulations where all the officials were women. Elham Asghari upped that distance. This is her story.
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The 4th annual Race for the Conch 2.4 miles and 1 mile swim events was an outstanding event yesterday. “The spirited chaos of open water swimming was seen in start of the 2.4 mile race,” recalls race director Ben Stubenberg. “No one got a scratch, but it certainly looks worse than it is. The 1-mile
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At the Fifth Annual Kingdom Swim signature race, age proved a valuable asset to climb a top the podium. Maturity showed and stamina was sustained on both the men’s and women’s side when 20-somethings were able to out-swim some pretty tough and seasoned teenagers. Post college graduates gradually got the upper hand in the challenging
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California lifeguards are often seen wearing jackets during summer which seems so out of character. Why? The California beaches can get quite chilly in the summer with its frequent marine layers descending upon the coastline in the early morning hours until nearly the early afternoon. The marine layer clouds that impact California are low-altitude stratus
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John Olguin and Jack Cheaney co-founded the Cabrillo Beach Polar Bear Club in Southern California in 1953. The Cabrillo Beach Polar Bears is a club of open water swimmers who train at Cabrillo Beach in San Pedro, California near the finish of the Catalina Island channel crossings. The team annually hosts the Cabrillo Beach Polar
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Swimming in Cabrillo Beach near the traditional finish area of Catalina Channel crossings, we found ourselves swimming parallel to rocky coastline of Southern California among a thick kelp forest. The thick kelp forest below the water surface seemed to stretch forever beneath the water’s surface. Although we wondered what possibly could be down among the
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It is not often when open water swimmers can meet the largest creatures on Earth. But swimmers crossing the Catalina Channel in California may have that opportunity over the next several weeks as the annual migration of blue whales continues from the warm southern waters to the more northern climes. Just south of the primary
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