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Courtesy of Ivan Vranjes, Water Polo Cruise, Croatia. Ivan Vranjes and Mateo Jurić are water polo coaches and aquapreneurs who manages two projects, Water Polo Cruise and Swim Cruise in Croatia. The two partners in Water Polo Cruise reported, “Sisak, Petrinja and surrounding area was hit with a devastating 6.4 magnitude earthquake that destroyed many lives in an […]
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Courtesy of Ger Kennedy, Southern Ocean, Antarctica. Antarctica 2020 International Swim is a series of ice swims and environmental swims held inside the Antarctic Circle (66°33′46.5″ south) that replicates and celebrates Lynne Cox‘s pioneering Antarctica 1.7 km swim in Neko Bay in 2002 and celebrates the 200-year anniversary of the discovery of Antarctica by Russian explorer Fabian Gottlieb Thaddeus von Bellingshausen with swims in the Bellingshausen Sea and the Weddell Sea, organized
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The 2020 WOWSA Awards were announced and includes 13 nominees from 11 countries in the World Open Water Swimming Man of the Year category.
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The 2020 WOWSA Awards were announced and included 12 nominees from 11 countries in the 2020 World Open Water Swimming Woman of the Year category.
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Courtesy of Pelin Çelik, Turkey. Turkish swimmer Deniz Kayadelen knows about being cold, stressed, and out of her comfort zone. She was part of Out of our Comfort Zone, a four-person relay across the English Channel in August 2019 with Raha Akhavan-Tabatabaei, Emre Deliveli, and Ayse Yasemin Bagana. She also participated in the 91.27 km Peace Route Swim, a 9-person relay swim between Girne on the
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Sponsored by KAATSU Global, Huntington Beach, California. Dick Campion, a member of the Class of 2011 in the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame, has led an incredible aquatic life that has spanned being a competitive swimmer in the 400m and 1500m freestyle and 800m relay, representing Great Britain, at the 1960 Olympic Games in
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Paul Georgescu of Romania has completed two hard swims in 2020 – both completely different. He first set a Zero Ice Mile record in Hanusee Bay in Antarctica in 0.6°C water as part of the Antarctica 2020 International Swim, completing the mile in 22 minutes 44 seconds last February. Then,
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Michelle Lucking explains about how cold water swimming helps boost her immune system on WOWSA Live.
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The 2020 WOWSA Awards announced the 12 nominees from 9 countries in the World Open Water Swimming Performance of the Year category.
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The 2020 WOWSA Awards kicked off with the announcement of 22 nominees in the World Open Water Swimming Offering of the Year category
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