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Ashley Twichell was in the middle of a pack of 12 during the first 2.5K loop at the aQuelle Midmar Mile 10 km race on Monday in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. She clocked a 30 minutes 38 seconds on the first loop swimming in the middle of the pack. After a comfortably lengthy feeding on the […]
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At the start of the race, Troy Prinsloo scouted Chad Ho and checked out his position Ho positioned himself on the far left of the huge pack, in his customary position. “I decided my line at the very last moment,” said the 3-time defending champion. But Ho can read the weather and conditions as well
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Katinka Hosszu, the top FINA World Cup swimmer in the pool, was the dark horse in the 40th aQuelle Midmar Mile. Outfitted in a fashionable pink suit, the Hungarian Olympian took out the world’s largest mile race, like a fast 200m. But American Ashley Twichell had the speed and stamina to stick with her. By
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The 2.5 km Human Rights Day Swim on March 21st is open for registration. This is the only qualifier swim for the 2013 Freedom Swim. The swim, part of the Freedom Swim Series, is a 2.5 km solo ocean race held on March 21st each year at Camps Bay Beach in Cape Town, South Africa.
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Mauricio Prieto leads Team Swim 4 Good and eDreams, the main sponsors of Marnaton, an organization that aims to popularize open water swimming in Spain. As part of Marnaton, Prieto organizes the 6.5 km Marnaton eDreams Cadaqués that attracts over 600 swimmers. Prieto and his wife Susan Moody are currently training to swim across the
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Darian Townsend, a South African gold medalist in pool swimming, looked strong and confident at the aQuellé Midmar Mile relay on Saturday morning. He led a strong group right from the start as he pulled away at the finish. His performance gave Chad Ho and Troy Prinsloo a hint of the strength of competition they
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Marathon swimmer Nicoletta Simonazzisigned a two-year sponsorship with FINIS this week. The 23-year-old from Gualtieri, Italy hopes to represent Italy in the 25 km races at the 2013 World Swimming Championships and European Swimming Championships. After winning the 2009 Strait of Messina race in Italy, she placed third at the 2010 Sabac 30 km marathon
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Lewis Pugh (1992), Otto Thaning (1992) and Abigail Brown (2010) were pioneers in a warm-water lake swim in Africa. They have all swum across Lake Malawi. The lake, the third largest in Africa and the eighth largest lake in the world, is located between Malawi, Mozambique, and Tanzania. Kaitlin Harthoorn of the USA and Milko
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There are dozens of swimmers from Japan, the United Kingdom, Guatamala, Spain, and the United States who will attempt the Tsugaru Channel during the summer season 2013. Following the successful 2012 season when there were 16 attempts and 7 successful crossings (including Darren Miller (15:55), Stephen Redmond (12:45), Michelle Macy (8:55), Forrest Nelson (9:26), Craig
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Chuck Kroll created the Lake Washington Lifeguard Challenge Cup in 1986 who is writing a book on the History of Life Guards & Lifesaving in America. In his research for his book, he found himself learning different things about the open water – and then he acted upon that knowledge. He found that the lifesaving
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