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Douglas Miller of Fiji holds the world record for the 18K Fiji Swims event from the Sofitel Fiji Resort & Spa to Beachcomber Island in 4 hours and 56 minutes. This year, swimmers from Australia, New Zealand, USA, England, Singapore and Malaysia are flying to tropical Fiji to join locals to try and break Douglas’ […]
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After Greece won the 5K Team Pursuit race at the European Swimming Championships in Hungary and Olympic medalists like Larisa Ilchenko and David Davies finished out of the money – something previously unthinkable – the surprises and upheaval in the elite echelon of open water swimming continued. Olga Beresnyeva of Ukraine unexpectedly won the 25K
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During the first hour at the Traversee Internationale du Lac Memphremagog, Petar Stoychev of Bulgaria was busy – real busy. Because of the relatively slumbering pace from the beginning, the men’s and women’s field were bunched together in a tight pack. Bumping and swimming in close quarters was not what Petar had in mind so
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Chloe Sutton led a group of cross-over swimmers (open water + pool) in the pool at the recent USA Swimming National Championships in the 800-meter freestyle. Chloe won the event in 8:24.77 only behind Great Britain’s Olympic gold medalist Rebecca Adlington (8:21.15) by a few seconds. World 25K championship fourth-place swimmer Haley Anderson was third
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Valerio Cleri of Italy won the 25K at the European Swimming Championships yesterday in 5 hours and 16 minutes, 16 seconds faster than silver medalist Bertrand Venturi of France. Other European champions this year included Thomas Lurz of Germany in the 10K and Luca Ferretti of Italy in the 5K as well as the Greek
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25-year-old Pilar Geijo of Argentina took a big chance today in lac Mempremagog at the FINA Open Water Swimming Grand Prix – and it paid off handsomely. “I decided to go with the top men,” explained Pilar. When the men started to pick up their pace before the second half of the race, they created
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After a grueling 13 hours and 50 minutes, six women from the Serpentine Swimming Club completed their 23-mile marathon swim in 51.8°F (11°C) water down Loch Ness in support of the Afghan Mother and Children Rescue. See here for more information and for donations to support women and children in remote areas of the war-torn
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The 23rd annual St. Vincent’s Swim Across the Sound Marathon starts this morning. The world’s second-largest marathon swim over 25 km (after the Rottnest Channel Swim) attracts 285 total swimmers – guided by a fleet of 115 escort, guide and medic boats – to its 15.5-mile course from Port
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Tomorrow, watch 21 professional marathon swimmers compete over 34K in the Traversée du lac Memphrémagog, a FINA Open Water Swimming Grand Prix event in Quebec, Canada. With sunny weather expected and the water temperature fluctuating between 22°-24°C (71.6°-75.2°F), the race should be an exciting and face one. Copyright © 2010 by Steven Munatones
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Active.com ran an article on sighting like a professional. When beginner triathletes and open water swimmers raise their head to sight, the most common tendencies that negatively affect their speed and body position include: • a drop in their hips and legs, • a change in their hand and forearm position, • a cross-over kick,
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