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Margarita Llorens Bagur completed the Menorca Channel from Menorca to Mallorca on July 10th in 12 hours 23 minutes. Margarita just missed the world record by 5 minutes with her outstanding swim between the Balearic islands of Menorca and Mallorca in the Mediterranean Sea. The current record is held by Teresa Planas set in 2011 […]
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On NBC’s opening montage of its broadcast of the Opening Ceremonies of the 2012 London Olympics, the Thames was prominently shown throughout the show. The longest river in England was swum in its entirety in July 2006 when Lewis Pugh traversed from its source near the Welsh border to the North Sea, a total distance
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If a new race director ever wanted to undergo an intensive and comprehensive on-the-job training on how to conduct an open water race, they would be well-served to head to Roberval in Québec, Canada and learn at the Traversée internationale du lac St-Jean. For 60 years, the Organizing Committee has been setting the standards for
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There was an intriguing battle in Thursday’s Traversée internationale du lac St-Jean in Roberval, Québec, Canada. Olympian Richard Weinberger went mano-a-mano with American Arthur Frayler. While Frayler is not going to the Olympics and lost out to his Canadian rival Weinberger in lac St-Jean, we suspect that these two young warriors will have dozens of
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For the past 60 years, the Traversée internationale du lac St-Jean in Québec, Canada has been one of the premier open water swimming competitions in the world. In 2008, in preparation for the FINA Open Water World Championships, a FINA 10km Marathon Swimming World Cup was started in addition to the traditional across-the-lake point-to-point race.
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Open Water Source looks at the top male Olympic medal contenders and dark horses for the Olympic 10K Marathon Swim on August 10th in the Serpentine in Hyde Park. For complete and comprehensive coverage of the Olympic 10K Marathon Swim on August 9th and 10th, visit here. This is how the top male marathon swimmers
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There is something primordially satisfying and profoundly enriching by swimming from Point A to Point B: there is the start, the struggle in the middle and the celebratory finish. But the journey begins well in advance of the start and continues well past the finish. A swim involves not only the physical preparation, but is
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H2Open Magazine is running an Olympic discount special for new digital subscribers. Take advantage of this one-time deal running through midnight GMT on July 29th by the world’s only open water swimming specialty magazine. “A joy to read, I look forward to every issue,” says Steven Munatones, Editor-in-Chief, Daily News of Open Water Swimming. “The
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. 27 solo swimmers and 9 relays took part in the second annual Portland Bridge Swim in Oregon. An army of volunteers, many of whom were witnessing their first swimming event, were introduced the sport of open water swimming at the 11-mile downriver swim under all 11 bridges on the
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Prior to 1964, there were only two relay teams that successfully crossed the English Channel: the Rotherham Neptunus Swim Club that went from England to France in 11 hours 20 minutes in 1950 and the Folkestone Swim Club that went from France to England in 14 hours and 57 minutes in 1954. Then, beginning in
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