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Assistant Producer Milly Fraser is currently searching for new competitors for the British Broadcasting Company’s Saturday night show Total Wipeout. According to Milly, Total Wipeout is a tough and demanding course that requires a high level of fitness to win the £10,000 prize. Strong swimmers typically perform well. Total Wipeout looks for contestants from a […]
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The Voice of Russia reported that 25 swimmers from Russia and China started on a 1,300 km marathon relay along the Amur River, the world’s ninth longest river that represents the border between the Russian Far East and northeastern China, to the Tatar Strait, a strait in the Pacific Ocean dividing the Russian island of
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The 2010 Maui Channel Swim – a 9.6-mile inter-island relay between Maui and Lanai – is going to be a tremendously competitive race with the world’s fastest open water swimmers gathering in the tropical paradise. Race director Ian Emberson has never seen so many of the sport’s greatest heroes and heroines gather in the Maui
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Another OWSA joined the global open water swimming community with the inaugural Central Illinois Open Water Swim (CIOWS) held this week. The 1.2- and 2.4-mile races in Hudson’s Evergreen Lake are an excellent opportunity for swimmers in central and downstate Illinois, as well as for swimmers and triathletes in Indiana, Kentucky, and across the Mississippi.
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72 swimmers from Germany, Great Britain and the Netherlands, ranging from 16 years to 79, swam for the 3K Rondje Noordereiland in the center of Rotterdam in the Netherlands. The swimmers competed in the Nieuwe Maas, a branch of the the 1,000K Maas (Meuse) river which starts in France, flows through Belgium and runs through
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The new Veterans Day Charity Swim is a cold-water swim between the legendary Coney Island and Brighton Beach in Brooklyn, New York on November 6th. Benefits from the 1-mile, 2-mile and 5K races, with wetsuit and non-wetsuit divisions, benefit Service Women’s Action Network and the Wounded Warrior Project. In a classic touch of innovation and
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With several world marathon swimming champions and record holders developed in Deutschland – from Thomas Lurz and Christof Wandratsch to Britta Kamrau (on left), Angela Maurer and Peggy Busche, it is no wonder there are plenty of open water swims in the country. Below is a brief event list with links to these swims: JulyErfurt-Stotternheim
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Dan Projansky is preparing to swim non-stop butterfly in the upcoming 8-mile Swim 4 Freedom in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin on August 8th. “I swimming butterfly to raise money for the Special Operations Warrior Foundation that provides college educations to children who lost a parent while serving in Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps.” Copyright
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Ignacio Martinez Sela reported that one of the world’s greatest open water swims, the Descenso a Nado de la Ria de Navia (Navia’s Downstream Swim), will be broadcast for worldwide viewing here (EN DIRECTO) on August 8th. The 1.1K, 1.7K, 3K and 5K races down the picturesque River Navia in Asturias, Galicia in northern Spain
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La Traversée internationale du lac St-Jean attracts the world’s elite open water swimmers to Roberval in Quebec, Canada. La Traversée, one of the world’s longest continuously running marathon swims, is always a tough race – something that is clearly etched on the faces of the swimmers. In this year’s race, 7 out of 20 athletes
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