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World Open Water Swimming Federation, a human-powered project
It enables dreams to come true. Channel Swimming & Piloting Federation is one of the two governing bodies for those individuals or relays that want to cross the English Channel, the most hallowed waterway in the world. The CS&PF is the newest and largest organisation for English Channel swimming is recognised and approved by the […]
It is huge. Gigantic. Humungous. And smoothly efficient. Under the leadership of race director Wayne Riddin, swimmers come from all over the world to participate in the aQuellévMidmar Mile in South Africa. The world-famous event was recognized as an Honour Organisations by the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame. The aQuellé Mile includes races from
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In a small village outside of Chicago, Don Watson created a powerhouse, both in the pool and in the open water. Hinsdale was the center of the professional marathon swimming world when John Kinsella and Sandra Bucha ruled the waves in the 1970’s. Both developed by Coach Watson, they were just two of the many
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His legacy is set. As an administrator working behind the scenes, Dennis Miller rose in the FINA Family ranks to the highest echelon in aquatic administration: he became a FINA Bureau member while overseeing FINA’s newest aquatic discipline, open water swimming. As he worked on the details of integrating open water swimming into the FINA
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Marathon swimmers are not your average humans. They voluntarily push themselves beyond the normal. Cold, rough and tough are three adjectives that are commonly used among the marathon swimming crowd. But Lewis Pugh takes cold, rough and tough to an entirely different level. The former maritime lawyer and British Special Air Service warrior has done
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Haley Anderson was among the 15 selected nominees for the 2012 World Open Water Swimming Performance of the Year. [Read more…] Copyright © 2012 by Open Water Source
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Ever since he first made a splash in the English Channel world as an 16-year-old, the youngest to ever complete a 2-way crossing of the hallowed waterway, Nick Adams was destined for greatness. Now moving into his third decade in the channel swimming community, his lifetime of work in the water, on land and in
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Frank Flowers‘ year-round efforts to organize swims in the Cayman Islands was among the 15 selected nominees for the 2012 World Open Water Swimming Performance of the Year. [Read more…] Copyright © 2012 by Open Water Source
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Just a year after being inducted in the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame as an Honour Administrator in the Class of 2012, Ned Denison was recognized again as a member of the Class of 2013. Denison received the Irving Davids-Captain Roger Wheeler Memorial Award. The Irving Davids-Captain Roger Wheeler Memorial Award is an award
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The Dutch Ladies First record-setting two-way English Channel record was among the 15 selected nominees for the 2012 World Open Water Swimming Performance of the Year. [Read more…] Copyright © 2012 by Open Water Source
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