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Valerio Cleri, the reigning 25K world champion who finished fourth in last year’s 10K, continued the winning ways of Italy at today’s 10K world championship. Playing his cards just right, Cleri bulled his way to the front on the last loop to win convincingly in 2:00:00 over Russians Evgeny Drattsev and Vladimir Dyatchin. While the […]
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Eva Fabian, the smallest women at the elite levels of open water swimming with a huge heart, has a good reason for leading races from the front: what happens behind her. “I got hit several times,” said Christine Jennings who placed sixth at yesterday’s 10K world championship where she exited the water with a swollen
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This is our take on Day One of the 2010 World Open Water Swimming Championships where there was a possible changing of the established guard. But, as the elite open water swimming world knows: Olympic opportunities will be on the line at the 2011 World Swimming Championships which will serve as the first qualification for
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Heidi Levasseur of Trois-Riviese, Quebec, Canada completed an unprecedented 160K swim around the perimeter of Tour du Lac St-Jean, a swim where she swam between 15-35K each day between July 12th – 17th. “Swimming is my passion. I want to give a message to people who have a dream. I also want to join a
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A Remarkable Pacing Effort By The World’s Best Courtesy of WOWSA, Roberval, Canada. Yesterday’s world 10 km champion Martina Grimaldi of Italy swam four fairly evenly-split 2.5 km loops in the 10 km course in Roberval: 31:08, 31:29, 31:24 and 30:44. Silver medalist Giorgia Consiglio 31:09, 30:58, 31:26 and 31:54 while bronze medalist Yanqiao Fang
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US Masters Swimming hosted a very competitive 10K National Championships in Morse Reservoir in Noblesville, Indiana. A strong field put up fast times under extremely warm 84°F (28.8°C)conditions. The final results for the top 10 were as follows; 1. Andrew Mueller, 20, 2:04:37 2. Adam Dawkins, 34, 2:10:163. Josh Kercheval, 29, 2:11:034. Tegan Nakanishi, 18,
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Unión Americana de Natación de las Américas announced that the 10K open water race will be held on the last day of the 2011 Pan American Games, October 22nd. The 10K race will be held in the beautiful waters of Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. The new event order is here. Copyright © 2010 by Steven Munatones
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It is a great day for Italy in Roberval. It was the first time for Italians to go 1-2 at a world open water championship. Together in a training camp and training alone, they both had a goal to medal. And, they certainly came through in a very difficult and fiercely-fought race, partly in the
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With the water temperature dropping from warm high of 75°F (24.4°C) yesterday morning to a rather cool of 64°F (17.7°C), the women at today’s World 10K Open Water Swimming Championships were treated to a surprise. But gold medalists from the previous FINA World Championships have tackled all kinds of conditions and circumstances. The gold medal
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The course at the 2010 World Open Water Swimming Championships is challenging, very challenging. Whoever wins these 5K, 10K and 25K races in Roberval will be aerobically superior, blazing fast, tactically intelligent swimmers – with a bit of luck. The 2.5K-loop course starts off with a dive in front of thousands of spectators and takes
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