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A Swim 33 Years In The Making Courtesy of WOWSA, Key West, Florida. If you missed Diana Nyad’s documentary on CNN this past weekend, it is posted online where you watch it here. Copyright © 2008 – 2011 by World Open Water Swimming Association
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The 58th Sea of Galilee Swim is a tradition in a truly unique sense. While marathon runs, participatory walks or road-running events are often the largest mass athletic competitions in many countries, Israel stands alone in the world’s community. Sea of Galilee Swim is the largest amateur sports event in Israel. Held in the Sea
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Glen S. Hummer, 54 Years In The Making Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. As the sport of open water swimming explodes around the world, there are occasionally a few brakes in the emergence of the sport. The Glen S. Hummer Huntington Mile, established in 1957, was canceled this year due to lack of entrants.
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The Tempest Freerunning Academy is the first playground in North America dedicated to freerunning. Freerunning is like parkour, an improvisational street sport. Freerunning is described as the craft of moving through one’s environment in the most efficient and safest way possible. “Not a lot of other sports constantly push you to try something outside of
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“She never has a bad day,” explained her coach Bill Rose of the Mission Viejo Nadadores of Ashley Twichell. Ashley, who recently received the USA Swimming Female Open Water Swimming of the Year Award, moved to California after her graduation from Duke University. Ashley joined Olympian open water swimmer Chloe Sutton and fellow national team
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>Alex Meyer was awarded the top open water swimming award by USA Swimming at its recent annual convention. Alex received the recently renamed award, the Fran Crippen Memorial Male Open Water Swimmer of the Year Award. The award was established in 1984 and annually presented to USA Swimming’s most outstanding open water swimmer. This year,
The Government of Canada supports its open water swimming community by supporting its pro and amateur marathon swim events. The Honourable Christian Paradis, Minister of Industry and Minister of State (Agriculture) and Member of Parliament (Mégantic-L’Érable), on behalf of the Honourable Bal Gosal, Minister of State (Sport), explained why the Canadian government supported the FINA
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Kane Radford from New Zealand and Melissa Gorman from Australia swim away with the US$10,000 prize by winning the 2011 RCP Tiburon Mile in the beautiful San Francisco bay. Copyright © 2011 by Open Water Source
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Dr. Jane Katz, a recipient of a Certificate of Merit by the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame received two additional awards at the 2011 International Master Swimming Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony at the United States Aquatics Sports conference in Jacksonville, Florida. Dr. Katz received the 2011 June Krauser USMS Communication Award and the
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At the recent United States Aquatic Sports, USA Swimming‘s Board of Directors approved a maximum water temperature of 85°F (29.45°C) for its sanctioned open water events. What is great about this new rule of USA Swimming is that it was decided in a completely transparent manner and is now set in stone. The rule was
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