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While their ultra-marathon swimming colleagues are tackling an 88K swim down the Paraná River, the second stage of the shorter FINA 10km Marathon Swimming World Cup will be held in Viedma, Argentina this Saturday, February 4th. The tough-nosed competition will feature 19 of the world’s top women and 24 of the men’s top men. After […]
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Olympic swimming heroes and heroines have occasionally turned to open water swimming in their post-Olympic careers. Shane Gould, the five-time Australian Olympic medalist, runs the Devil of a Swim in Tasmania and continues to be a passionate advocate for learning how to swim, especially for those who live near the ocean or on island nations.
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The world has more than 4,000 sanctioned open water swimming clinics, camps, tours, races and events in at least 158 countries. The sport is growing like never before – and usually under the radar of national governing bodies and the mass media. A list of some of the world’s greatest, most popular or challenging open
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2,524 swimmers are posted in Openwaterpedia. Additionally, 614 different open water swimming terms, 853 different open water swimming places, 589 different open water swimming products, 53 escort pilots, 98 different open water swimming services. 249 different open water swimming coaches, 541 different open water swimming records, 1,946 different open water swimming records, 502 different open
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HUNTINGTON BEACH, California. One size definitely does not fit all in the open water swimming world. From training habits to feeding, open water swimmers follow an exceeding wide range of parameters. And shaving down is no different. An online roundtable discussion was conducted and the information-sharing was fascinating. International Swimming Hall of Fame and International
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Pieter Christian Jongeneel Anderica is an open water swimmer from Málaga, Spain who has completed the Strait of Gibraltar in 2004 (one-way crossing) and 2005 (two-way crossing), the English Channel in 2007, the Catalina Channel in 2008, the Cook Strait in 2011. One-by-one, he is knocking off the channels of the Oceans Seven. Christian is
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After coming in second at the 18º Maratón Acuática Internactional Ciudad de Rosario, Russian Anna Uvarova beat favored Pilar Geijo of Argentina. Getting off to a great start in South America on the FINA Open Water Swimming Grand Prix circuit, Anna looks to give 2-time defending Grand Prix champion Pilar all she can handle for
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Like the FINA World Cup race in Brazil, the top men at the FINA Open Water Swimming Grand Prix had a furious fight to the finish at the end of their 8-hour 57K race from Santa Fe to Coronda in Argentina. In a mind-boggling display of flat-out speed at the end of an endurance race
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The final men’s results from the FINA 10km Marathon Swimming World Cup race in Santos, Brazil today: 1. Spyridon Gianniotis (Greece) 2:11’39″51 2. Nicola Bolzonello (Italy) 2:11’41″44 3. Richard Weinberger (Canada) 2:11’42″34 4. Romain Beraud (France) 2:11’43″84 5. Erwin Maldonado (Venezuela) 2:11’45″97 6. Vladimir Dyatchin (Russia) 2:11’47″19 7. Valerio Cleri (Italy) 2:11’47″69 8. Christian Reichert
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HASSAN BEACH, Tunisia. The 2011 World Open Water Swimming Man of the Year Nejib Belhedi swims day after day along the coast of his native Tunisia, continuing to build awareness of open water swimming. His 1400K Swim Across Tunisia started out as a one-man journey from western Tunisia last June. Over the past several months,
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