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Emily Brunemann won her second consecutive FINA 10K Marathon Swimming World Cup race. 2 races, 2 countries, and 2 victories are rightly boosting the confidence of the American distance swimmer who has now won a total of 4 FINA World Cups in her career. Brunemann finished ahead of Brazil’s Ana Marcela Cunha and Olga Beresnyeva […]
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Alex McMillin is an active promoter of open water swimming in the Oakville region of Lake Ontario, Canada. He has served as a volunteer escort crew member, Zodiac pilot and kayaker for L.O.S.T. swimmers like Madhu Nagaraja, Rob Kent, and Annaleise Carr. The former competitive swim coach has also completed 48 running marathons, 4 Ironman
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Tim Poullain-Patterson is organising a 3 km swim around Skellig Michael in 2013. Skellig Michael, located 11.6 km west of the Iveragh Peninsula in County Kerry, Ireland in the Atlantic Ocean, offers a swim not for the faint of heart. “It is a really scary place,” explains Ned Denison who is the only human in
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After a good showing in the 15 km race last week at the Maratón Acuática Internacional Ciudad de Rosario, and finishing fourth in last year’s race, Olga Kozydub of Russia started out in the lead and hung on for 8 hours 42 minutes to beat the more experienced veterans on the professional marathon swimming circuit
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After 8 hours and 20 minutes, the top 5 men in the 57 km Maratón Acuática Internacional Santa Fe – Coronda came sprinting down the Rio Negro in the last stage of the race, but it was Simone Ercoli‘s day. The Italian who also won last week’s marathon in Rosario closed out the river race
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Olga Kozydub of Russia and Gabriel Villagoiz of Argentina are leading the pack at the 57 km Maratón Acuática Internacional Santa Fe – Coronda down the Rio Negro in the early stages of the race. Everyone is feeling good right now, but that will change over the course of the 8-10 hour race. On the
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Since 1950, over 20 swimmers have tried and none have succeeded where Chloë McCardel plans to go in 2013. Not only is McCardel going to swim 170 km from Cuba to Florida this coming June without a shark cage or the benefit of protective swim gear, but she is also hoping to raise $500,000 with
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At today’s Maratón Acuática Internacional Santa Fe – Coronda event, each swimmer’s boat is supported by a different sponsor. The escort boat of FINA Open Water Swimming Grand Prix champion Pilar Geijo, a favorite in her native Argentina, is sponsored by the national lottery. If she remains healthy, she’ll remain a reasonable pick for victory
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American coach Mike Collins videotaped the 800m sprint race before Sunday’s 57 km Maratón Acuática Internacional Santa Fe – Coronda: Note: jumping off the river bottom is evidently not means for disqualification in this pre-race promotional event. ,Copyright © 2013 by Open Water Source
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The stage was set for one of the more pleasant swims during the Port Nelson Summer Sea Swim Series in New Zealand back in the summer of 2011. The Port Nelson Summer Sea Swim Series is a summer season long group of community swims held on Thursday nights with a history that goes back 25
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