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FINA Magazine wrote a fascinating article on top swimmers, water polo players and divers who combine world-class athletic careers with motherhood. The mixture of open water and motherhood is increasingly common, especially since the fastest growing demographic in open water swimming is women over the age of 40 years, While women around the world understand […]
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Lewis Pugh wrote an engaging autobiography called Achieving The Impossible where he explains all the extraordinarily difficult and risky episodes that he has encountered in his life. He will kindly send an autographed book to the first five individuals who correctly answer all five questions about his life. The questions are posted here. Email your
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Tom Keller, Michael Chase and Jon Ennis of the Dolphin Club in San Francisco kicked off something unusual in August: they swam an individual medley in the open water when they completed their Golden Gate Medley Swim – about 1 mile of each stroke for 2 hours and 20 minutes. Impressive, fun, unprecedented and unusual.
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Next year, James Jonsson of Utah will go after the long-held Lake Tahoe record held by Dave Canyon. Dave’s lengthwise record is 9:20 that he set in the summer of 1987. On his marathon swimming resume, James has a track record of swimming fast in high-altitude cold-water swims, having set a similar record in Bear
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For all those newcomers to open water swimming, Marcellus Wiley of ESPN, a former American football great, has some great words of wisdom and perspective. Go here to hear Marcellus tell of his own story how he went from being fearful of swimming – unable and unwilling to even step in a pool – to
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The following are Portuguese-language translations of the Brazilian swimmers’ nominations for the World Open Water Awards: Ana Marcela Cunha (Brasil), Atleta profissional de Maratona Aquática Seguindo os passos da sua adversária Poliana Okimoto que venceu no ano passado, Ana Marcela Cunha venceu o circuito da Copa do Mundo de Maratonas Aquáticas de 10Km da FINA.
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Most people swim freestyle across the English Channel (EC) and Catalina Channel (CC), but a select few like doing other strokes. The fastest of those non-freestylers include: Fastest EC Butterfly: Julie Bradshaw, (UK), 2002, 14:18Fastest CC Butterfly: Vicki Keith (Canada), 1989, 14:53:26Fastest EC Backstroke: Tina Neill, (USA), 2005, 13:22Fastest CC Backstroke: Tina Neill (USA), 2008,
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Gethin Jones completes a Bristol Channel crossing at its widest point.
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One of the greatest Olympic stories ever told was the road to Beijing by Natalie du Toit, the South African amputee who fought back from adversity to qualify for the 2008 Olympic 10K Marathon Swim. The courage, the tears and the passion shown by Natalie on her road to Olympic glory was inspirational and genuine.
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Jose Diaz of Jose Diaz talked with 2007 world professional marathon swimming world champion Esther Nuñez on a variety of topics in his latest in-person Spanish-language interview in Nadando Libre. …Empezó a nadar a los 4 años…a los 17 comenzó a entrenar para el campeonato de España de aguas Abiertas…en 1998 se lanzo a la
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