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Few individuals in the history of open water swimming have carried the heavy physical, mental, emotional and financial burdens that Stephen Redmond heaped upon his broad shoulders in 2012. And, in return, few swimmers have enjoyed such a masterful year as did the Irish icon who was voted as the 2012 World Open Water Swimming […]
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SWIM Channel by publisher Patrick Winkler is growing in the Portuguese-language swimming community and about to take its approach, award-winning content, and brand throughout the rest of the Americas. For Winkler’s efforts, his new publication was selected as the 2012 World Open Water Swimming Offering of the Year . The award is meant to identify
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55 years and counting. Year in and year out, the passion, work and leadership of Juan Ignacio Martínez Fernández-Villamil has had a tremendous impact and influence on the sport of open water swimming in Navia, Spain and its showcase event, the Descenso a Nado Ría de Navia. The year-round effort of the man known as
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Laura Hamel is on the move, out in the open. In her new role as the Communications and Publications Director of U.S. Masters Swimming, Hamel is very effectively utilized the power of the word and the platform of U.S. Masters Swimming to promote the sport of open water swimming. Hamel, an enthusiastic pool and open
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Roger Finch, a member of the Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming and the Half Century Club, lives in Johannesburg, South Africa. 1,263 miles from Cape Town and a large platoon of the South African extreme swimmers, ice swimmers, marathon swimmers and channel swimmers, Finch found it a tough task logistically to prepare for his
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Cheryl Wagner is the race director for the Potomac River Swim, now in its 21st year. Founded by Joe Stewart (shown on left with Wagner) in 1983, Wagner has helped raise between US$12,000 and US$20,000 year in and year out. “The charity swim raised a total of US$18,000 last year which was donated to 10
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Craig Dietz, The Limbless Waterman, has had quite a year. From speaking at the Global Open Water Swimming Conference to completing a 5.1 km swim and appearing on American television, he has been on the move. In 2013, he will move even more. He, along with other American Olympic Coach Bill Rose and world champion
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Color can provide a hint at the temperature of the water. If it is white onshore, especially with a gray covering above, it is cold. Often bitterly cold, the welcomed venue for extreme swimmers. “I swam yesterday at Red Tarn [in the eastern region of the English Lake District] with Helvellyn Mountain in the background.
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Don’t Stop Swimming Now, Great White Shark In Our Midst Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. In one of the few documented cases where sharks encountered professional marathon swimmers, Canadian Olympian George Park gives a first-person account of the 14.1-mile race from Narragansett, Rhode Island to Block Island in 1968. “The world’s greatest marathon! This
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Ned Denison completes swim across False Bay in South Africa
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