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In addition to Omar Díaz González‘s career as an Olympic swimmer and member of Mexico’s national water polo team, he has enjoyed travels around the world as a professional marathon swimmer and member of a three-way and four-way English Channel relay. A promising young age-group swimmer, he became the Mexican national champion in the 1500 […]
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Mark Dumas truly does the ultimate Polar Bear Swim here. As one of the best animal trainers in the world with dozens of movie credits to his long, storied career, the Canadian is in high demand for Hollywood movies. Click here to see the most amazing Polar Bear Swim ever. Copyright © 2012 by Open
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Nopdol Luengnimitmas is a member of the Thai Amateur Swimming Association who was recently named the president of Thailand Open Water Swimming, the newest official division in the Thai Amateur Swimming Association. Swimmers from Thailand will soon be joining the global open water swimming community. Copyright © 2012 by Open Water Source
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Last year, Petar Stoychev pulled off an incredible double victory while traveling around the world. The world champion and English Channel record holder from Bulgaria not only won the 9.3 km Cadiz Freedom Swim in 12°C (53.6°F) water in South Africa over tough competition, but he also won the 2011 World Swimming Championships 25 km
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Monique Wildschut from the Netherlands was inducted in 1993 as an Honour Swimmer in the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame. The tall, powerful Wildschut dominated the women’s professional marathon swimming circuit from 1983 to 1988 with six consecutive World Professional Marathon Swimming Association titles. As a solo swimmer, she crossed the English Channel twice:
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The FINA 10km Marathon Swimming World Cup and the FINA Open Water Swimming Grand Prix returns to the Americas with the Maratón Cancún next week in Mexico. With each subsequent race, the Olympics gets closer and closer and the intensity is notched higher and higher. Video from La Patagones Viedma in Argentina shows how fast
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The sport is in good hands when race directors have hands-on experience in the sport of open water swimming. Former competitive swimmers like Morty Berger of NYC Swim in New York City, Wayne Riddin of the Midmar Mile in South Africa (shown on left), Bob Placak of the RCP Tiburon Mile in San Francisco, and
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There is going to be a lot of experienced open water swimmers at Jamie’ Swim Camp 2.0 in Hidden Valley Lake in northern California. Besides host and organizer Jamie Patrick, marathon swimming stars such as Gordon Gridley, Jen Schumacher, Evan Morrison, cold water specialists like Karen Rogers, Phil Cutti and Rob Dumouchel, and ultra-marathon athletes
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Joseph Locke, as many swimmers before him, struggled with how to properly respond to his escort boat captain and crew. The profound nature of the reliance, protection, love and guidance that the captain and crew shower upon a swimmer is fully comprehensible on a boat in the middle of the ocean. Joseph attempts to explains,
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With Diana Nyad and Penny Palfrey planning separate 103-mile solo non-stop swims in the Straits of Florida, Paul Lundgren planning a 76-mile swim in the Sea of Cortez, at least 15 two-way lake and channel crossings around the world as well as a number of unannounced open water swims from the South Pacific to the
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