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Erik Van Loon of King Of The Rivers – Rotterdam and race director of the Rondje Noordereiland announced that Daan Glorie won this year’s 3K race in 32 minutes. Copyright © 2011 by Open Water Source
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As swimmers around the world are getting closer and closer to achieving the Oceans Seven (see below), the interest in following each of the leading competitors is building. Later this summer, Australian adventurer Penny Palfrey will attempt her sixth swim (Tsugaru Channel) of the seven Oceans Seven channels. With one more channel to go (North
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Josh Heynes is a certified exercise physiologist and marathon swimmer who has swum across Lake Erie twice (2006 in 11:53:36 and 2011 in 11:16:40). He is the world record holder of the 24.3-mile course with his 11 hours 16 minute charity swim from Long Point, Ontario, Canada to North East Township’s Freeport Beach. “This was
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Endless Pools has a great online tool where you can simulate open water swims, including an English Channel crossing, a swim around Manhattan Island, a swim across the Bering Strait and many other famous open water swims from the Molokai Channel to the Cook Straits. Use the Endless Pools‘ virtual swim simulator to plot your
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Disaster strikes in one part of the world and open water swimming is affected in another part of the world. Sir Richard Branson’s home on his private island of Necker in the British Virgin Islands was destroyed in a fire. The fire and its aftermath means that the famous businessman and adventurer will not be
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. It was amazing to see so much aquatic activity existing harmoniously in the small Naples Island area in Long Beach, California during today’s Beach Water Polo Cup. In one small area in Alamitos Bay, there were hundreds of open water swimmers, triathletes, stand-up paddlers, paddlers, water polo players, kayakers,
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Dave Van Mouwerik successfully completed a south-to-north crossing of Lake Tahoe on August 14th. Dave eloquently described his 13 hour 51 minute here (with such passages as “…the first eight and a half hours were excellent— swimming under a full moon, exquisitely calm water, the escort boat running with no lights, the muted lights of
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“He really knows how to put on an event. He really takes care of the athletes – the pros, the masters swimmers and the young kids,” said world champion Petar Stoychev. “His events are great down in South Africa.” That is very high and well-deserved praise about Michael Zoetmulder by a pro swimmer who has
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World 25K champion and 2012 Olympian Alex Meyer is scheduled to shift from his rounds of international competitions to a local eco-swim, the Race for Salem Sound in Massachusetts this weekend. The annual 500-meter, 1-mile and 5K races also serve as the 2011 New England Open Water Championship Races where more than 200 swimmers from
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Japanese swimmer Masayuki Moriya came back after a failed attempt across the Tsugaru Channel between Honshu and Hokkaido last year to triumph over the channel this week in a wetsuit swim. The neoprene-clad Japanese coach completed one of the Oceans Seven channels in 11 hours 55 minutes. He had previously crossed the Tsugaru Channel in
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