To educate, entertain, and enthuse all those who venture beyond the shoreline
World Open Water Swimming Federation, a human-powered project
Mark Lambert of Hinsdale, coached by the legendary Don Watson, won the 6-mile Sea of Galilee swim back in 1970. The holder of national high school pool records became a Face In The Crowd in Sports Illustrated as a result. His story, as a young teenager flying around the world, is fascinating. After finishing behind […]
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Jayson Chin is a renowned Orthotist Prosthetist from Cape Town, South Africa who heads the Cape Amputee Clinic where all aspects of life as an amputee are addressed. The Cape Amputee Clinic often manufactures ‘shower legs’ for amputees that can get wet and are used for showering, wadding into water and walking on the beach.
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Endurance athletes in every sport are a breed apart. They are often more cerebral than celebrated, more introverted than extroverted, more inspirational than arrogant. They know what they want and they set an agenda to achieve their goals in a methodical manner. Those in the aquatic world are especially driven with their head in the
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There are well-known open water swimming waterways around the world: Sandycove Island (Ireland), Strait of Messina (Sicily), Cape Town (South Africa), Dover Harbour (England), Seven Mile Beach (Grand Cayman), Copacabana Beach (Rio de Janeiro) and Aquatic Park (San Francisco). While there are well-known personalities in each of these venues volunteering their time, Darrin Connolly from
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Dana Swanson has always been around water – as a native of San Diego, as a competitive swimmer, at the office in her day job, in the pool keeping fit, in the mountains snowboarding, along the coast skateboarding, or in the Pacific ocean surfing. Swanson describe her classic life-work balance, “My gills dry out if
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Turn buoys are some of the most key elements of the open water swimming world. Inflatable, portable floating guide posts of the waterworld. They immediately indicate a point, a turn, a hazard, a shore, a current, a pier, a jetty, rocks or the finish on a loop course, out-and-back course or geometrically shaped courses. In
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The classic 58-minute head-to-head, leave-it-all-in-the-water duel between Ashley Twichell and Emily Brunemann at the 2012 USA Swimming National Open Water Swimming Championship 5 km race is shown in its entirety below. “I got touched out by 3 tenths of a second at the world championships so that played on my mind,” said Twichell who won
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Muhammad Ali vs. Joe Frazier. Larry Bird vs. Magic Johnson. Steve Ovett vs. Sebastian Coe. Arnold Palmer vs. Jack Nicklaus. Tiger Woods vs. Phil Mickelson. Roger Federer vs. Rafael Nadal. Andy Irons vs. Kelly Slater. Great rivalries in sports showcase intense competition between focused, committed athletes often competing for something larger than themselves: their teammates,
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One of the unique presentations at the 2012 Global Open Water Swimming Conference will be an interview with Ben Lecomte during his Longest Swim from Japan to California. In his nearly inconceivable stage swim from Tokyo to San Francisco, Lecomte will be swimming day by day as he makes his way across the largest body
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Swimmers can dream, can’t they? They are celebrities in their own right, no? How great would it be in the iconic Sandycove Island were purchased by a swimmer or a consortium of swimmers? Among Hollywood stars, Mel Gibson owns Mago Island in Fiji while Robin Williams owns Pender Harbor in the colder realm of British
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