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Mo Siegel of Piermont, New York completed his English Channel attempt in 14 hours and 18 minutes to join the Channel’s exclusive ‘Half-Century Club‘. Adding to his resume that includes four Manhattan Island Marathon Swims, a Lake Zurich Marathon Swim (10:58) and 11 Great Chesapeake Bay Swims, he is now looking forward to the 17-mile […]
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The Beginner Triathlete filmed a 50-minute presentation on a variety of open water swimming topics by Steven Munatones at the 2010 Multisport World Conference and Expo in Baltimore. Watch the 50-minute presentation here. Photo of the men’s 10K at the 2003 World Swimming Championships by Dr. Jim Miller. Copyright © 2010 by Steven Munatones
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American Olympian Mark Warkentin and Petar Stoychev will be chasing Shelley Taylor-Smith‘s Manhattan Island circumnavigation record of 5 hours and 45 minutes. In the 95-year history of swimming around Manhattan Island, no one – man or woman – has been able to come close to Shelley’s record – except Shelley herself who has the second
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Jose Diaz of Nadandolibre interviewed International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame honor swimmer David Meca in Spanish here. David not only was he a fast solo swimmer with the eighth fastest English Channel swim of all-time (7 hours and 22 minutes), but he also won two world swimming championships (2000 and 2005) and was creative
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Freestyle is not the only way to go in the open water. Julia Bradshaw swam butterfly across the English Channel in 14 hours and 18 minutes. Tina Neil swam backstroke across the Catalina Channel and the English Channel (13:22). Fredrik Jacques swam breaststroke across the English Channel in 13 hours and 31 minutes. From Chicago
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There is a growing trend to older individuals attempting and succeeding at marathon swims. 64-year-old Sue Oldham of Australia set another bar for this demographic with her 17 hour and 11 minute crossing of the English Channel this week. Sue told PerthNow, “Every hour of the swim I thought about someone special in my life,
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After winning an unprecedented ten straight times in the world’s most difficult profesional marathon swim, Petar Stoychev acknowledged the degree of difficulty, “It gets more difficult year after year with all the good [young] swimmers coming to lac St-Jean.” His finish is below: Copyright © 2010 by Steven Munatones
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Zhang Jie, a 23-year-old coach at Beijing Sports University, successfully swam 74 km down the Qingjiang River, a tributary of Yangtze River, the longest river in China. Back in 2006, Zhang was a member of Zhang Jian Open Water Swimming Team that successfully swam 150 km in Qingjiang, so she had some experience in the
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One of the world’s top open water swims is Brazil’s annual 3.3K Travessia dos Fortes in Rio de Janeiro. Ricardo Ratto of the Brazilian Swimming Federation reports that 2,517 swimmers lined up to do a single start in 2009. “It is always amazing to see the swimmers line up on Copacabana Beach every April. The
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Jim Boucher provided the support for 63-year-old Ellery McGowan in the 26.4K 23rd International Self-Transcendence Marathon Swim in Lake Zurich, Switzerland last week. “She finished third in the over-40 non-wetsuit category with an epic swim in non-standard conditions for swimmers from 12 countries on four continents.” “Far from the sunny day we have all come
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