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Martin Strel has made a splash in Europe, in South America and in Asia over the course of his long career. And now he has returned to America where he once swam the length of the Mississippi – and is now taking on the other great American river – the Colorado. His son Borut announced, […]
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This September, Sir Richard Branson, the legendary founder of the Virgin Group and intrepid adventurer, and singer-songwriter Ronan Keating of Boyzone fame will headline a ten-member relay team. They will swim 56 miles across the Irish Sea in the hopes of raising at least £1million for Cancer Research UK. The Swim is a celebrity-led challenge
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. It is rare that swimmers are celebrated in such an august setting, but two awards ceremonies will be held at the United Nations on June 19th. As part of the Global Open Water Swimming Conference in New York City between June 17th – 19th, the International Marathon Swimming Hall
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Ireland’s Steve Redmond has successfully swum the English channel (in 20 hours 10 minutes) and the North Channel (17:17) and just completed the Strait of Gibraltar in 5:01 this past weekend. With three of the four Oceans Seven swims under his belt, he has certainly established a name for himself among the elite endurance swimmers.
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Travis Nederpelt, a two-time Australian Olympian and frequent ocean race victor in America and Australia, took his navigational talents and open water savvy from Down Under to Florida this past weekend. In an impressive show of pool Olympians pushing it hard in the open water, Travis won the International Swimming Hall of Fame Fran Crippen
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As the weather starts to warm in Northern Hemisphere, many open water swimmers near coastlines, lake shores and river banks are finding this to be the time to get out of the pool and into the open water. If you’re going to be doing races where waves are a variable, try practicing your finishes by
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Challenge. Courage. Camaraderie. Community. This is what open water swimming is all about. Unknown. Unreported. Unorganized. Under-exploited. This is what open water swimming has been. No longer. Open water swimming has become a lifestyle sport enjoyed by an increasingly connected global community with camaraderie across genders, borders, ages and incomes. Every single day, something new,
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Lucky Meisenheimer will have his launch of his new book ‘The Immune‘ on Friday the 13th of May at the Aquatics Center YMCA in Orlando, Florida. 3-time Olympic gold medalist Rowdy Gains will attend where over US$4,000 in prizes will be given away. Copyright © 2011 by Open Water Source
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Austrian Olympic swimmer Jakub Maly had been training hard with his teammates in Florida. This weekend, he then relaxed on Pompano Beach by digging a giant hole in the sand. The hole was gigantic – over 2 meters deep and nearly 2 meters wide – and had taken Jakub hours to dig. As any hard-working,
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