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World Open Water Swimming Federation, a human-powered project
Macgillivray Freeman’s One World One Ocean is inviting filmmakers between the ages of 12-18 to document what the ocean means to them in a one minute video in its World Oceans Day Video Contest. Two Grand Prize Winners will receive US$100 and a Go Pro HD HERO 3 camera. One World One Ocean welcomes humorous […]
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As people grow older, many find that time is the essence of life; not money or things. This is what we believe many open water swimmers and endurance athletes of all types discover early in life and during their career. From our interviews of these aquatic adventurists and open water swimmers, they obviously and clearly
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She is doing it again. Yesenia Cabrera Fuegos will attempt to swim the Tsugaru Channel in Japan this summer in her quest to complete the Oceans Seven. Already, the top channel swimmer from Central America has crossed the Strait of Gibraltar at the age of 37 in 2010 in 4 hours 39 minutes (2010), the
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59-year-old John Kuzmkowski is swimming nearly 12,000 yards a day, building up a sizable lead in the U.S. Masters Swimming Go The Distance program. The small business owner and dedicated swimmer from the Allegheny Masters Team finished second in the 2012 U.S. Masters Swimming Go The Distance competition with 1,700 miles swum. But he is
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Mally Richards set a record that may never be broken in the open water swimming world…unless he extends his own record next year. The 89th SPAR River Mile took place at the picturesque Cannonville Village on the Sundays River with over 1,300 participants taking part over the two day event in near perfect weather including
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The 2 km Welsh Open Water Estuary Swim 2013 will be held on August 31st. The swim is a crossing of the Tywi Estuary from Ferryside to Llanstephan and back again under the stunning backdrop of Llanstephan Castle. Managed and directed by the professional crew of Ferryside lifeboat, the swim is split into two heats.
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When you think of a great combination of roots for an open water swimmer, what could be better than a lineage from both Hawaii and Ireland? The utter fearlessness, brute courage, and ability to handle all conditions of the Irish mixed in with the fluid grace, knowledge of ocean dynamics and the aloha spirit of
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Nika Kozamernik, a professional marathon swimmer from Slovenia who is currently hurt due to a complicated shoulder operation. During her rehabilitation over the next year, the personable multi-lingual swimmer will be in Switzerland to work with Swiss Swimming Federation on open water swimming. Open water swimming in Switzerland, like everywhere else in the world, is
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In a small study published online in the British Journal of Nutrition January earlier this year in January, British researchers from Northumbria University’s Brain, Performance and Nutrition Research Centre concluded that men who exercise in the morning do not consume additional calories or experience increased appetite during the day to compensate for their earlier activity
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The swimmers and officials want for nothing in Cozumel at the FINA 10K Marathon Swimming World Cup and FINA Open Water Swimming Grand Prix races. There are buffets everything in the hotel as the international guests are treated like kings and queens by the Mexican Swimming Federation and the local sponsors. Safety Delegate Shelley Taylor-Smith
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