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Petar Stoychev didn’t take long to remind the marathon world has good he is. Stoychev won the BCT Gdynia Marathon in Poland by 2 minutes over rival Trent Grimsey. The English Channel record holder and 4-time Olympian won the 18 km sea swim from Hel to Gdynia in 3 hours 51 minutes. American Christine Jennings […]
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21-year-old Payne Montgomery of Stanford won the 2012 U.S. Masters Swimming 1 Mile National Championship in Lake Lure, North Carolina. He was followed by two 40-somethings Chris LaBianco and Chris Stevenson. Marianne Countryman topped the women’s field by a comfortable margin. But Dr. Edgar Ole Larson, the former Appalachian State University swimming coach, who may
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Decades ago, society and surfers could never imagine wearing neoprene wetsuits, as they did not exist. Since 1872, swimmers have been attempting to cross the English Channel in the same manner: nothing that may aid a swimmer’s speed, buoyancy or heat retention is allowed. No wetsuits, webbed gloves, paddles or fins. There are few sporting
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The men and women in the Olympic marathon swimming 10km finals finished in a custom-designed finish created by Omega Timing. The finish pad has sophisticated electronic timing and cameras. Copyright © 2012 by World Open Water Swimming Association
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Barbara Held has always been driven and set the highest standards for herself. In her youth, she became the first female firefighter in the city of Los Angeles, California. In her retirement, she set about to complete the Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming. One of the crew members of Penny Palfrey’s Cuba attempt, Held
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South African Wayne Soutter‘s swim across the English Channel in 2010 was only a warm-up for his latest exploit, an unprecedented 17km (10.5 mile) crossing from the Mull of Kintyre on extreme west coast of Scotland to the Antrim coast in northern Ireland. The 43-year-old who lives in London started from the tip of Kintyre
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In the afterglow of the Olympic Games, the 2nd annual Bridge To Bridge 14k marathon swim got underway. From Henley to Marlow, 176 swimmers including four-time Ironman world champion Chrissie Wellington took part and traversed 3 locks and 4 food stops along the course. 100% of the starters finished as the participants swam in pods
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The Irish Long Distance Swimming Association (ILSDA) will be honored by the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame at the 2012 Global Open Water Swimming Conference in Long Beach, California on September 22nd. The ILDSA will join a select number of other world-renowned organizations in the Hall of Fame: Traversée Internationale du lac St.-Jean, British
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Harry Kemp, an American writer known as Poet of the Dunes, floated the idea of an open water swim between Provincetown and Plymouth, symbolically celebrating the historic bond between the First Landing Place and the First Colony. Kemp promoted a 20-mile swim called the American Channel Swim from Provincetown to Plymouth to remind people of
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