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Bali, Fiji, and Perth…and many beaches in between. Tiffany Fraser-Gillard is an adventurous Australia open water swimmer who has traveled and completed in various swims around the Pacific, swimming over innumerable reefs, around sand bars, along picturesque coastlines. The 41-year-old won the 2012 10 km female Bali Ocean Swim as well as solo swims of […]
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Since 1947 the then-15-year-old Mally Richards participated in his first 60th SPAR River Mile – and has been participating ever since in the oldest open water swim in Africa. Over that period of time, he has some unique perspectives over the annual race. His fastest times over the course were recorded in his early twenties
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Sunny skies, wide sandy beaches, Hollywood, Disneyland, skateboarders, and surfers. There are lots of different images that come to mind when Southern California is the topic. And one thing that Southern California – a land of 12+ million people – has in abundance from Santa Barbara to Orange County is an active swimming community. Pool
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When swimmers tackle the 200m butterfly, they must touch each wall with two hands. When swimmers tackle the 1500m freestyle, they must swim 30 laps of a 50m pool. When triathletes tackle the Hawaiian Ironman, they must do so without a wetsuit if the water is warmer than 76.1ºF (24.5ºC). And so the same concept
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A cookiecutter shark took a bite out of Hawaiian channel swimmer Michael Spalding when he was swimming from the Big Island of Hawaii to Maui. In the middle of the night, Spalding was initially hit in the sternum and then rolled over on this back. The next moment, the deep-water cookiecutter shark came up again
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In the course of the extremely busy, highly scheduled contemporary lives, there always seems something to do, a project always due, somewhere to go, and never enough time. Somehow, someway, somewhere, you need to grab some food to stay fueled. It could be on an escort boat on a channel swim, or heading out of
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The Open Water Swim Club sent off one of its youngest members, Lexie Kelly, to the three FINA Open Water Swimming Grand Prix races in Argentina with a short 6000-yard workout in a 25-yard pool as part of her final taper. After a warm-up and before a long pulling set, the main set as part
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In reference to a previous article about the beluga athletes in open water swimming events, the always active merman Scott Zornig (shown on left), president of the Santa Barbara Channel Swimming Association, reported about an event he used to organize in Southern California where he had 3 different divisions: Sea Walrus for men at least
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Kristina Evelyn describes the new festivals organized by SwimBarbadosVacations in Barbados, “Swim in the warm waters of the Caribbean in two open water swim festivals held on July 6-7th and October 26-27th. There are two events during each weekend festival: a 1.5 km swim on Saturday morning and a 5 km swim on Sunday morning,
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After participating in two Lake Travis Relay events, Lance Armstrong‘s previous acts as a professional cyclist has caught up with him in the open water swimming world. Dr Keith Bell, founder of the American Swimming Association, announced, “Lance Armstrong has been banned for life from competing in any ASA-sanctioned or -hosted event. Armstrong competed as
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