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University of Minnesota grad Christine Jennings‘s sprint to the finish is shown on SwimNetwork here. After the last turn buoy, you can see how Christine moved first to the left, then to the right and then back left again as she held off Eva Fabian (2nd), Emily Brunemann (3rd) and Haley Anderson (4th) in the […]
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Before the 1.5K and 3K Acapulco Grand Prix at the Central American and Caribbean Aquatic Sports Convention (Convención Centroamericana Y Del Caribe De Las Especialidades Acuáticas) in Mexico, Laura Vidales announced the Brazadas Por La Vida project where, among other projects, Javier Gutierrez will attempt to break his 8 hour 16 minute time across the
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Marcos Díaz successfully completed his last leg of his Swim Across The Continents across the Bering Strait first made famous by the incomparable Lynne Cox. Since May 2010, Dominican Republic’s Marcos has engaged an innovative and ambitious project called the ‘Swim Across The Continents‘. On behalf of the United Nations for the Millennium Development Goals,
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39-year-old Clark Bird of Merced, California completed the length of Lake Tahoe last week under the most unusual and difficult of conditions – against the wind and at night 13 hours and 23 minutes at high altitude. Throughout the history of Lake Tahoe crossings, only Tom Linthicum in 2009 did so in the same north-to-south
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SwimNetwork captured Chip Peterson’s final sprint and tremendous spurt of energy near the finish at the 2010 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships 10K here in Marine Stadium in Long Beach, California. After patience and a great sense of timing, Chip went to his 8-beat kick around 150 meters from the finish. Copyright © 2010 by World
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Diana Nyad has reportedly cleared the political and visa issues that had delayed her improbable, incredible, inconceivable 103-mile swim from Cuba to Florida. The 60-year-old evidently places no bounds, no limitations, no restrictions on her ‘Extreme Dream‘ as she calls it. Implausible, perhaps. Impossible, naught. Sometime next week, depending
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Chris Dahowski, Mike Vovk, David Hartmire and Jen Schumacher (shown on left) will do a Contiguous Solo Crossing Relay across the Catalina Channel. What is a Contiguous Solo Crossing Relay? A Contiguous Solo Crossing Relay is a swim where any number of athletes completes consecutive point-to-point solo swims or circumnavigations of any duration, length or
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In order to promote the last leg of his Swim Across The Continents, Marcos Díaz is planning a swim from the United Nations. Since May, Dominican Republic’s Marcos has engaged an innovative and ambitious project called the ‘Swim Across The Continents‘ for the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals. Marcos has swum between the Pacific and
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The Night Train Swimmers are teaming up with three outstanding Mexican endurance swimmers to attempt a non-stop open water swimming relay world record. The swim, billed as the Mexican American Unity Swim 2010, is expected to take an estimated 60 hours. Vito Bialla, Matthew Davie and Phil Cutti from the San Francisco Bay area and
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In the midst of one of the busiest seasons in English Channel swimming history, the marathon swimming community is abuzz today about the 135th anniversary of Captain Matthew Webb’s first successful crossing of the English Channel in 1875. According to Michael Oram, Captain Webb set off of Admiralty Pier in Dover harbour to start his
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