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Evgeny Drattsev won the 6th Traversée Internationale du Lac Mégantic. The 10km professional marathon swim was held in beautiful Lac Mégantic in Québec, Canada. 2008 Olympian Drattsev turned the tables on Christian Reichert who won the traditional 1km sprint race the night before in the 23°C (73°F) water. In contrast to other races on the […]
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Ryan Lochte and Michael Phelps do it. Carly Geehr, a former beach lifeguard and national-level swimmer at Stanford, explains, “Nearly 100% of elite competitive swimmers pee in the pool. Regularly. Some deny it, some proudly embrace it, but everyone does.” Urinating in competition pools has become big news in the media in light of Lochte
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In some ocean races in South Africa, its rules that governed wetsuit usage dictated that wetsuit swimmers receive a 1-minute time penalty for every 1 km swam. Other open water swims where wetsuit swimmers and non-wetsuit swimmers compete in the same division have different time differentials (e.g., 60-90 seconds per 1.6 km swam). But there
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Larry Herlth, known as Lighthouse Larry, is an American artist and open water swimmer from Islamorada, Florida who completed an 8-mile swim from Islamorada around the Alligator Lighthouse and back in 5 hours, 11 minutes. He attempted the swim as a crusade to raise awareness about Alligator Lighthouse and the five other historic but deteriorating
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The major sponsor of British Swimming has been British Gas. British Gas has been very generous to the open water swimming community in particular. From being the title sponsor of the British Gas Great Swims to supporting the national open water swimming team travel budget, the benefits of British Gas support have reached everyone from
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The family, friends and fans’ support of the Olympic marathon swimmers was overwhelming in London. Many groups were colorfully outfitted in specially designed shirts or hats, and many wove their country flags in support of their favorite athletes. There was Team Lurz of Germany, And Team Kida of Japan, And Team Mellouli of Tunisia, And
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Penny Palfrey is a risk-taker. She accepts risk and understands that failure is part of the open water swimming equation. She set off on two of the riskiest swims possible, on opposite ends of the extreme spectrum within several weeks of each other. It was a high-risk proposition, but if anyone could pull it off,
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Hendrik Meerman is an American pool and open water swimmer from California who became the 57th person to complete the Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming yesterday. He completed the English Channel in 2006 in 13 hours 12 minutes, the Manhattan Island Marathon Swim in 2011 in 8 hours 24 minutes, and the Catalina Channel
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Graham Barratt was the first person to swim Lake Bala butterfly 3.25 miles across the lake at the age of 33 in 1992 in a time of 1 hour 47 minutes and was the first individual to swim across the lake breaststroke two ways 6.5 miles in 1988. The former swimming coach and teacher still
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The Faros Maratón Swim, also the Croatian International Long Distance Swimming Championships, is a 16km race from Stari Grad to Faros in Croatia. It is organized by the Croatian Long Distance Swimming Federation that was inducted in the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame as an Honour Organisation in 2011. The competition developed over the
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