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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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The races among the elite professional marathon swimmers in contemporary times often come down to the very end. Sprinting to the finish, the athletes are separated by only seconds after hours of racing. However things change in the open water swimming world, they also tend to stay the same. Back in 1902 at the Amateur
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David Barra and Rondi Davies have created one of the longest series of marathon swims in the world. Their 8 Bridges Hudson River Swim is one of the newest and most popular ultra-marathon challenges in the world. Back in 2011, these were the results and courses swum day after day. Stage 1 was an 18.3-mile
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Slaven Šitić is the father and swimming coach of Ivan Šitić, and Karla Šitić and Ivana Šitić, sisters and a professional marathon swimmers from Croatia. Karla qualified for the Olympic 10K Marathon Swim at the 2012 London Olympics, finishing 12th while Ivana competes on the FINA Open Water Swimming Grand Prix circuit. And he knows
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While working in a large Hitachi R&D complex in Japan in the 1990’s, I ate daily in the large company cafeteria along with thousands of my Japanese colleagues. Noodles – warm in winter and cold in summer – along with many fish and tempura dishes were served. The dishes were quite nutritious and balanced with
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Tickets are now on sale for the 10th annual San Francisco Ocean Film Festival. The mission of the San Francisco Ocean Film Festival is to inspire people to appreciate and care for the ocean by revealing its wonders through independent films. It is an artistic extravaganza for open water swimmers. The 4-day film festival is
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There is a casting call for swimmers who are 60 years or older. A local commercial casting director in Los Angeles is seeking male and female senior athletes 60 years and older. The spot will be directed by film/commercial director Tom Dey who is seeking athletes with a passion for their sport. Email seniorathletecasting@gmail.com or
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If you are an open water swimmer or triathlete, you might want to train in the endless wave pools to be developed by the Kelly Slater Wave Company. Slater is the 11-time world surfing champion and entrepreneurial visionary. The rendering on left shows a doughnut-shaped endless wave pool for surfing, but we can easily envision
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Back in July 1990, Steven Munatones did a two-way crossing of the Tsugaru Channel between the islands of Honshu and Hokkaido in Japan, almost done entirely at night with squid fishermen as his escort boat pilots. “When the captain shown the light on the water surface, I saw so many squid. Squid everywhere, all underneath
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