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How Did Marathon Swimming Get Into The Olympics? Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. How did open water swimming get into the Olympic Games? It all started with a simple lunch gazing out over the horizon across the Indian Ocean. In a scene that can be immortalized by a Hollywood movie, three passionate open water […]
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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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Ous Mellouli of Tunisia and Eva Risztov of Hungary are the 2012 London Olympics Games marathon swimming champions. Both athletes swam courageous, gutsy swims and they deserve the global accolades coming their way. While they did not swim together, they did swim under similar conditions in nearly identical water temperatures in a carefully marked course
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The men’s Olympic marathon swim gold medalists are quite remarkable. First there was Maarten van der Weijden who won the gold medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Not only was his athletic victory dramatic, so too was his life story. van der Weijden remains the only Olympic gold medalist in history to have captured gold
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With the conclusion of the Olympic marathon swim at the 2012 London Olympic Games, there were several surprises and positive outcomes that resulted. 1. Oussama Mellouli of Tunisia (1:49:55.1) powered to an Olympic victory, giving Tunisia and Africa its first Olympic marathon swimming gold. His participation is also adequate evidence that open water swimming does
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Oussama Mellouli made two communities happy with his gold medal marathon swim victory in the Serpentine today: his native country of Tunisia and his adopted USC (University of Southern California) family in America. His brilliant strategy throughout the 10,000m swim combined with his powerful strokes on the last two loops led to a dominant victory
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Ous Mellouli Wins The Olympic Marathon Swim WOWSA, Serpentine, London. In a brilliant strategy that played to his strengths, Ous Mellouli swam away from the field to capture his second Olympic gold medal in today’s Olympic marathon swim in the Serpentine. Thomas Lurz captured the silver with young Richard Weinberger holding off Spyros Gianniotis for
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