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The Olympic 10K Marathon Swim in the Serpentine in Hyde Park in the center of London will consist of six loops of 1.67 km each in a course that is shaped somewhat like a kidney bean. While some traditionalists have commented that the Olympic 10K Marathon Swim is not “real” open water swimming, others believe […]
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Ethan Saulnier of Somerville, Massachusetts established a new record for the 10-mile course in the Kingdom Swim in Lake Memphremagog on the Vermont (American) side. He beat Rondi Davies’ existing record time by about 4 minutes that she set in 2010. The event will serve as the site of the 2013 9+ Mile U.S. Masters
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Antonio Saint Aubyn, a 36-year-old swimming coach from Cumaná, Venezuela, completed an unprecedented 63 km (39-mile) wetsuit swim from Punta de Piedras on Margarita Island to the Cumanagoto Marina in Cumaná City on the mainland of Venezuela yesterday under ideal conditions. He started at 2:28 pm on July 13th and finished at 11:10 am on
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Ray Gandy, a member of the 24-hour club pictured on left with his special coating, will attempt to swim 50 miles from Newport, Vermont in America to Magog, Quebec in Canada this Saturday, July 14th. While professional marathon swimmers used to swim one length of lac Memphrémagog before the
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When fans, friends and family observe GPS units tracking marathon swimmers on their channel swims, it often appears that the swims do not start or finish on land. This leads some people to conclude that the swimmers do not abide by the established rules of open water swimming. That is, swimmers are expected to start
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Wearing a wetsuit will make you look like a seal and therefore more likely to be attacked by a shark.”
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There is a certain amount of misinformation reported in the media about open water swimming. World Open Water Swimming Association looks at the data in an attempt to distill fact from fiction, reality from rumor. One issue that is commonly reported in the press is that “Most body heat escapes through your head.” This oft-used quote
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After waking up resigned to head home defeated, the Tsugaru Channel finally smiled down on Stephen Redmond this morning in Japan. In a last-minute decision with the channel unexpectedly calm, Stephen Redmond, his trainer Noel Browne and Captain Mizushima decided to go for it despite having a long start. So at 10 am local time,
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Half Century Club member Roger Finch of South Africa arrived in New York one week before the Manhattan Island Marathon Swim together wit his English Channel support team. “I met up with Jeff Ackerman, my paddler, and Tony Pascucci, my boat captain for the swim the morning of the swim at Battery Park. I started
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