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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Records continue to fall this marathon swimming season. Americans Christie Plank Ciraulo, Nancy Steadman-Martin, Tracy Grilli, Karen Einsidler, Lisa Bennett and Jenny Cook set a record in the Pacific Ocean with a 9:19:44 crossing of the Catalina Channel. Their time dropped the existing record for an all-female over-50 relay […]
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Petar Stoychev won his unprecedented tenth straight victory in a hard-earned swim at the 56th annual Traversée internationale du lac St-Jean this afternoon in Quebec, Canada. Petar’s victory can be seen starting via a webcast here. The unofficial results are here as several athletes did not finish in the 18.5 degree C water. 1. Petar
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Prior to the 32K Traversée internationale du lac St-Jean, the Marathon de la relève Rio Tinto Alcan (Youth Marathon) was held in the famous lake in Roberval, Quebec, Canada. In 17°C water and 19°C air, Ahmed Hesham of LaSalle won in 2:15:53 with Éloise Labrecque of Chicoutimi second in 2:19:55. The other finishers included Jean-Luc
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The 32K 56th annual Traversée internationale du lac St-Jean, the richest race (US$40,000) on the 2010 FINA Open Water Swimming Grand Prix circuit, is today and can be seen starting at 2 pm New York time via a delayed webcast here. Watch 25 of the world’s best marathon swimmers tackle the lake that was about
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At tomorrow’s Dwight Crum Pier-to-Pier Swim in California, big surf is expected, but the excitement is growing for the 1,100+ entrants in the 2-mile swim. Last year, 1,008 people finished in relatively calm conditions, but consistent surf of 2-3 foot waves with occasional faces of up to 8 feet are expected. This surf forecast can
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The Mexican Swimming Federation (Federación Mexicana de Natación) will host a four-day Central American and Caribbean Aquatic Sports Convention in Acapulco, Mexico on August 26-29. Among the many speakers, Dr. Jim Miller and Steven Munatones will speak on a variety of open water swimming topics ranging from hypothermia, hyperthemia, hydration and fueling to navigation, tactics,
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With the Mighty Mermaids re-writing the record book with their 9 hour and 14 minutes crossing yesterday, we were curious about the overall Catalina Channel records over its 84-year-old history: MC = California mainland to Catalina IslandCM = Catalina Island to California mainland Listed in order of speed: Mixed 3 male & 3 female by
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The world marathon swimming list was updated today due to Nick Adams‘s swim of 9 hours and 51 minutes around Jersey (Round Jersey). A veteran of marathon swims around the world and the creator of the globally popular Channel Swimmers website Adams slivered two minutes off of the record of 9 hours and 53 minutes,
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In anticipation of the 47 swimmers from 18 countries who will be competing in the first 1.5K open water swim at the Special Olympics World Summer Games in Athens, Greece in July 2011 (which will also include a POW event), the truly energetic and personable Kester Edwards created a wonderful specialty open water swimming website
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James Jonssons set the Bear Lake crossing record in 8 hours and 53 minutes. Even with a comfortable 71°F (21.6°C) surface water temperature along the 30K course, James faced other problems – icy cold water just below the surface and 5,924-foot (1,806-meter) altitude in the beautiful blue lake straddling the border between the western states
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