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Two-time Olympian Jana Pechanová is preparing for the race of her life in the Serpentine on August 9th at the Olympic 10km Marathon Swim finals. An athlete from SKP Kometa Brno and multi-national Czech national champion, she is one of the fastest marathon swimmers in the world for good reason: her commitment to the sport, […]
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Dan Projansky finished dead last in the 27-mile (43 km) Extreme North Dakota Watersports Endurance Test (END-WET) yesterday. But he handicapped himself by swimming the entire distance butterfly down the mighty Red River of the North. While sighting was a bit earlier, the physicality of bringing both arms forward for 14 hours 30 minutes from
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Francisco José Kiko Hervás of Spain isn’t tall or physically large, but he has a huge heart. The man can flat-out swim fast in the open water. The multi-time national Spanish champion has an outside shot at a medal this time around in London. He is literally living his dream, “I have one tattoo on
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Retired teacher and coach Ralph Mohr is a pool and open water swimmer from Oregon who won his age group division in the 10 km U.S. Masters Swimming national open water swimming championships. The 71-year-old dynamo swam a swift 3 hours 10 minutes race. “I was fine for the first three loops. The last lap
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Tori Gorman is an Australian marathon swimmer from Sydney who successfully crossed the English Channel this week in 14 hours 12 minutes. Since her touching ground on Cap Gris Nez under the guidance of Michael Oram, her smiles, her enthusiasm and her heartfelt expressions of gratitude have continued non-stop. Her love of the ocean and
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The 31st annual Peaks to Portland Swim was held today in Portland, Maine). The 2.4-mile ocean swim was tidal assisted from Peaks Island to East End Beach, Portland. Under great summer conditions, 316 swimmers started with the incoming tide, most of whom (94%) were wrapped up in neoprene. A much smaller minority (19) of hardened
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There are many tens of thousands of friends of the Descenso Ría de Navia…and for good reason. These swimmers – young and old, fast and slow – are part of history, taking part in one of the world’s greatest open water swims. The Descenso a Nado de la Ría de Navia (Navia’s Downstream Swim) in
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They flew in the dark of night. Quietly they gathered on the shores of Lake Tahoe. Fully intent on winning the annual Trans Tahoe Relay, Joey Pedraza, Ridge Grimsey, Trent Grimsey, Codie Grimsey, anchor leg and team captain Peter Thiel and Alexander Studzinski kept their participation strictly confidential for they knew their competition was tough.
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The members of the Half Century Club prove that some things do get better with age. Even if the weather does not cooperate. This year, 72-year-old George Thornton, a psychology professor at Colorado State University, wanted to become the oldest person to cross the English Channel. As he waited out the fickle weather, the professor’s
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George Hunihan of Cross Channel Advisors in Milford, Connecticut tells of one of his work colleagues, “He won a gold medal in the 1972 Olympics on a relay with Mark Spitz. He told me that swimming the English Channel was more of a personal feat than getting on the [Olympic] podium. I have never been
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