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Jessica Roux, who has been winning a slew of races in her native South Africa, continued her winning ways in the 5K race at the 10th Senior African Swimming Championships in Casablanca, Morocco. Jessica finished in 45:02 over Morocco’s Sara el Bekri (46:28) and Algeria’s Malya Mgehezzi Bakhouche (46:30). On the men’s side, Egypt’s Hadeil […]
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Similar to the 2008 Beijing Olympics*, FINA (Fédération Internationale de Natation) sets the qualification standards for athletes to qualify for the Olympic 10K Marathon Swim which will be in the Serpentine in Hyde Park at the 2012 London Olympics. The qualification procedures from the 2008 Beijing Olympics will stay the same for the 2012 London
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The Ventura Deep Six Relay completed their 202-mile (325K) open ocean six-person relay to set a new record on late Monday morning. The official time was 101 hours 39 minutes and 53 seconds. GPS readings will be announced shortly. The team photo by Erica Cisneros is at the La Jolla Cove just after their finish.
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Comcast SportsNet interviewed the male swimmers of the Night Train Swimmers about their upcoming charity swim relay that begins on Friday (see here). The six-person tea will attempt to swim 108 miles in Lake Powell in the state of Arizona. The arial map on left shows the 28-mile distance from A to B and the
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The United States Master Swimming annually presents its Coach of the Year Award at the United States Aquatic Sports Convention. We noticed many of the recipients of the Award are closely related to open water swimming, one indication of the tremendous growth and importance of open water swimming to competitive and fitness adult swimmers. The
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How many people have swum more than a single-crossing in one of the Oceans Seven? Not many. A two-way crossing is looking for double trouble. But there are those who attempt it – and do it. To date, there have been only seven people who have successfully completed a double-crossing of the Catalina Channel: 1.
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On August 9th, Zhang Jian from China, a professor at the Beijing Sports University, set another marathon swimming record by swimming an unprecedented 50K across the Xing Kai Lake in Heilongjiang Province. He took 36:30 to swim across the lake in a wetsuit. An English-language news report is here. Zhang’s career has been remarkable and
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. From one perspective, Philippe Croizon is average. News reports from around the world heralded his swim across the English Channel when he finished in 13:30, almost exactly the average time based on the thousands of successful swims done since 1875. But from another perspective, the 42-year-old Frenchman is anything
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The Ventura Deep Six Relay is closing in on their goal in increasingly warm waters (66°F or 18.8°C). From a report on the high seas, “They all had great swims today, only 37.4 miles to La Jolla, covering many miles. They’re sore and tired, but continue to be in great spirits. Looking forward to the
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Ned Denison reported on the ‘The Edge Sports’ Sandycove Island Challenge, site of one of the world’s great swims.* The 1.1-mile competition took swimmers around the famous Sandycove Island in Kinsale, County Cork, Ireland. Lisa Cummins, the only Irish swimmer ever to complete a two-way English Channel swim, presented the prizes. Three of the winners
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