To educate, entertain, and enthuse all those who venture beyond the shoreline
World Open Water Swimming Federation, a human-powered project
Thousands of competitive adult swimmers descended upon Riccione, Italy for the 14th FINA World Masters Championships. 45 heats took off in separate waves on the triangular course with an in-the-water start and finish. The event was held over two days on June 16th and 17th due to the tremendous interest in the 3 km open […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Back in the English Channel swimming history in 1985, Suzanne Heim-Bowen did a 10 hour 11 minute crossing. 17 people successfully crossed the English Channel that year including some speedy crossings by Philip Rush who did a two-way crossing in 17 hours 56 minutes, Paul Asmuth who did two
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American Olympian Alex Meyer majored in Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University. That is a deep academic field that he devoted himself to at one of the world’s most preeminent institutions of higher learning. His professors and department fundamentally asks themselves and inquisitive students like Meyer the question, Why are humans the way we are?
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It makes sense: the individuals who are optimally positioned to understand the effects of pollution in the world’s oceans are open water swimmers. Completely enveloped in the increasingly polluted marine environment, open water athletes swim into pollution, taste it, smell it and see it all the time. Their skin is exposed to it, they absorb
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“Even monkeys fall from trees,” so says the old Japanese proverb (猿も木から落ちる). So despite Stephen Redmond‘s many successes in the North Channel, Catalina Channel, Cook Strait, Fastnet Rock, Strait of Gibraltar, Molokai Channel and English Channel, his track record is not perfect. But that is the nature of open water swimming and the inherent risk
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Swimming Canada has high hopes for its open water swimmers at the 2012 London Olympics: Richard Weinberger and Zsofia Balazs. Millions of Canadians will be watching these young athletes compete in the heart of London – as will the long list of Canadian heroes and heroines who have written chapters in the annals of marathon
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Matthew Webb swim to his death there. And there was a 128-year ban of daredevil stunts in the famous falls that border the United States and Canada. But like inspirational swimmers around the world who break barriers in the open water, Nik Wallenda dramatically broke barriers above the open water when he walked across the
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Recently, The Guardian reported that Stuart Hayes, a strong swimmer and cyclist, will help his more touted British teammates, Jonathan and Alistair Brownlee, during the 2012 London Olympics triathlon. While Hayes will serve as a domestique by leading the way for his teammates with strong swimming and biking legs, it is difficult to imagine the
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On August 9th, Keri-Anne Payne and 24 other Olympians will race 6 loops around the Serpentine. The next day, Thomas Lurz, Spyros Gianniotis and Ous Mellouli will race each other and 22 other men to stand on the Olympic podium. These two 10 km races will be broadcast to a global television audience. In many
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As the world goes round and the coastal areas of the globe get increasingly crowded, it is fascinating to learn how passionate people are bringing open water awareness and the joy of swimming to the next generation. From Bruckner Chase in Amerika Samoa and Shane Gould in Fiji to Nejib Belhedi in Tunisia and Saka
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