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World Open Water Swimming Federation, a human-powered project
Fionnuala Walsh became the first Clare swimmer and the 15th Irish woman to successfuly swim the English Channel. She was escorted by veteran pilot Paul Foreman on the Pace Arrow during her 15 hour 26 minute journey this week. But Walsh’s success was built on the foundation of fate. In early August, she was one […]
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The Deep Blue Invitational Swim is considered by many to be the toughest swim in South Africa outside of a Robben Island crossing. 30 of South Africa’s most accomplished extreme swimmers were invited to swim 10 km at Shelley Point in the cold waters near St Helena Bay this weekend. Cold, rough, and long…just the
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In order for Oliver Wilkinson to swim from The Friendly Isle (Molokai) to The Gathering Place (Oahu), he had to swim across the 42 km (26-mile) Channel of Bones (Molokai Channel). Fortunately, there would be no bone-crushing swim for Wilkinson on this day…although it may have appeared to start that way and could have ended
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10-time Olympic medalist Gary Hall Jr. is a huge fan and a passionate proponent of Billy Dutton. “Billy is accomplished in everything he does – and he does a lot. His recent jaunt is the Ride The Current project. Together with Mark Ward, it is an eco-friendly 354-mile (570km) surfing safari with a solar-powered Duffy
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The big guns showed up on the other side of the world. 2-time Olympic medalist Thomas Lurz was there. World champion Sypridon Gianniotis showed up. And Olympic marathon swimmers like Allan Do Carmo, Evgeny Drattsev and Igor Chervynskiy were pumped up and ready to go. The world’s elite was ready to race. And so were
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If it is a one-mile swim, a set at the end of a workout, a 25km world championship race, the Olympics, or a FINA 10km Marathon Swimming World Cup, there is one thing that can be assured: Ana Marcela Cunha of Brazil will be racing as intensely as possible. She is a passionate competitor whose
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Seeking Unknown Shores With Ted Erikson Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. “…My awareness of motions, internal and external, included: movements in the womb; splashing in a bathtub; paddling in a small reservoir; entering a swimming pool; and making erratic progress across the open waters of lakes, channels, and oceans. In open waters, external motions
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41 women from 18 countries competed in 8 races on the 2012 FINA Open Water Swimming Grand Prix circuit. Known for its highly competitive ultra-marathon races, the distances range from 15km to 57km, from warm water to cold water, from lakes to sea, from the Southern Hemisphere to the Northern Hemisphere. Esther Nuñez Morera of
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Open water swimming is considered to be a sport that is 80% mental. And Sabrina Devonshire stimulates the mental part of readers like few others in her new open water-centric book, The Open Water Swimmer. In the exotic erotic adventure novel where a hunky swimmer plays a central role, the life-long swimmer who doubles as
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Windy conditions and 18°C water greeted swimmers for the second weekend in a row at Marina Martinique, Jeffreys Bay during the 2012/13 Secbands EPA Swim Challenge series. The South African series kicked off with masters swimmer Kevin Grey as the only athlete to take on the 10km race swum over the four-loop 2.5km course. In
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