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Richard Weinberger of Victoria, the young and up-and-coming competitor who won the London 10km Marathon Swimming International event and a gold medalist in the 2011 Guadalajara Pan American Games, was named Canada’s 2011 Open Water Swimmer of the Year. His Victoria coach, former Olympian Ron Jacks, was selected Canada’s 2011 Open Water Coach of the […]
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Simon Murie keeps bringing the challenge and allure of the open water swimming world closer to its growing community. With the aim of introducing open water to experienced and inexperienced swimmers in a safe yet challenging environment, he organizes hundreds of weekend and week-long tours and training camps around the world. Thousands of people improve
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While the sport of open water swimming grows from Scandinavia to the South Pacific, race directors and governing bodies are handling this growth in a variety of ways from a logistical and operational perspective. In the American state of Ohio, Chip Carrigan has been on the forefront of pushing for standardization and education of open
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In the 1960s, there was a series of extraordinary professional marathon swims in Lake Michigan sponsored by Jim Moran. Pro swimmers like Greta Andersen, Abdul Latif Abou Heif and Ted Erikson went head-to-head for hours, day and night, in the cold, rough waters of Lake Michigan. Lake Michigan has also attracted swimmers like Kevin Murphy,
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The Mega, also known as the Mega Colossus, is a beach endurance contest in the sand and offshore waters of Huntington Beach, California. The The Mega consists of 5 beach runs totaling 8.5 miles and 4 ocean swims totaling 4000 yards. It is raw. It is challenging. It is a demonstration of the skills necessary
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Thomas Lurz is one extremely well-known and well-respected constant in the elite world of open water swimming. Year in and year out. Thomas not only won his 7th world championship title in the 5K, but he also won the 2011 FINA 10KM Marathon Swimming World Cup series, the European 10K Championships, and only narrowly lost
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Back in 2007, Aditya Santosh Raut competed in the Tethys Challenge Formula 7777. The Tethys Challenge Formula 7777 includes 7 different open water swimming races between 6-12 km along the coast of Tunisia on 7 consecutive days. The scenic, but competitive tour of 7 Tunisia’s islands is held in late May and early June where
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Hibiya High School (日比谷高等学校), a prestigious, academically-oriented high school in Tokyo, has been offering an open water swimming camp and course during summer for over 100 years. A century of ocean swimming for students…now that is an open water swimming camp that has stood the test of time. Copyright © 2011 by Open Water Source
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Karen Gaffney is a remarkable open water swimmer who has swam nine miles across Lake Tahoe and was part of a relay team to cross the English Channel. Karen was born with Down syndrome, but has also graduated from college and is a passionate advocate via her Karen Gaffney Foundation. Today in Hawaii, Karen will
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John Dussliere discusses the status of American open water swimming and how the community is populated by Project Riders, Project Designers, Project Hybrids and Project Authorities in a hard-hitting commentary, meant to help elevate the sport in general and USA Swimming in particular. His goals, which is achieved by the American swimming community via an
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