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Balaton Átúszás is one of the largest open water swimming competitions in the world and one of the World’s Top 100 Open Water Swims. The 30th annual event in Lake Balaton, called the “Hungarian Sea“, is held on July 7th. With over 7,000 participants in the race, there are continuous starts from 8 am – […]
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The Outrider, captained by John Pittman, is now taking reservations for solo and relay crossings of the 20.2-mile Catalina Channel. “Every year the requests, attempts and completions grow and grow. We anticipate this next year to escort between 30-40 swimmers and are looking forward to each and every swim being a successful one,” predicts Captain
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Training hard requires sacrifice, focus and commitment, but there are some nice benefits when you are at the elite level. The Italian national open water swimming team was able to train in Las Palmas in the Canary Islands, where other elite open water swimmers from Europe also often train. In addition to six hours of
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After the highly successful 5K and 10K open water swims at the 2011 SEA Games (Southeast Asian Games) were held on Putri Island on Indonesia, high-point winning Indonesia Swimming Federation is working with local volunteers to significantly expand its open water swimming calendar. In addition to other shorter distance events, the Indonesia Swimming Federation will
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It was cold on Saturday night in South Jersey on the East Coast of the United States. So Toa a le Tai founder Bruckner Chase brought a little bit of the tropics and a whole lot of fun to the Ocean City Swim Club workout. They took out all the lane lines in the indoor
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Dick Sidner announced the 2012 Planet Adventure Swimming Series (PASS), three open water swims in Noblesville in central Indiana, USA. The PASS events include the PASS 1K/2K held on May 26th in Morse Park & Beach, the PASS 5K that is run in conjunction with the 5K U.S. Masters Swimming National Championships on June 23th
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Marshall King recently launched NTX Open H2O to promote open water swimming in the American states of Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Louisiana. “The website is non-profit. I am seeking only to publicize the sport I love and to create more opportunities for training and racing.” The former ultra-walker and ultra-runner was injured and
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The Daily News Of Open Water Swimming Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach with Catalina Island in the background, California. The Daily News of Open Water Swimming is a Huntington Beach, California-based online publication that has posted 5,571 articles to date on the sport, personalities, trends, products, services, events, techniques, tactics, training, data and demographics of
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