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The Oxford-Cambridge Channel Race occurred today utilizing modern technologies to showcase the beauty and challenge of open water swimming. The positions of the relay swim teams from two of the world’s most esteemed institutions of higher learning were shown live on the Internet while tweets were also sent live and charitable donations were solicited. Although […]
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The Six Swans A Swimming relay team made their English Channel crossing in 11 hours and 57 minutes. The Six Swans A Swimming raised funds for the Kent Air Ambulance Trust. “For us, completing the crossing itself is enough of a challenge, but the fun of a [relay] race adds a degree of pressure to
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The Swim the Suck Tennessee River Gorge Swim has got to have one of the more unusual English open water swimming event names. Its early website is creatively designed and its 10-mile downstream course should be entertaining in the traditional sense of the word. The October 16th race will take the non-wetsuited swimmers through the
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150 people participated in the annual two-way crossing of the Fossvogur Channel between Reykjavík and Kópavogur last week. “The atmosphere was great despite the strong northerly wind,” Árni Jónsson, manager of the thermal beach in Reykjavík, explained to the largest Icelandic newspaper Fréttabladid. Participants started from the beach in Nauthólsvík in Reykjavík, swam across the
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On opposite sides of America, two adventureous women are clearly working out extremely hard for their upcoming challenges in August. Like their pool counterpart, Dara Torres, they are also making people rethink the athletic prowess and potential for older people. Anne Cleveland, a motivational speaker and realtor, is attempting to be the first person to
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Chris LaBianco and Abigail ‘Abby’ Nunn won the U.S. Masters Swimming 2-mile Cable Open Water National Championship in Chris Greene Lake in Charlottesville, Virginia yesterday. It was a day for the record books. Chris not only won his second national open water championship this year, but he also obliterated the men’s 35-39 year age-group record
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. In preparation for her August 103-mile swim from Cuba to Florida, Diana Nyad has been out practicing – all day and all night since yesterday. Dropped off about 50 miles off the Florida coast about halfway between Cuba and Florida, Diana is doing a long – really long –
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With the 2010 World Open Water Swimming Championships starting in less than a week, we wanted to look back at the history of the world championships. While the history of championships goes back in various formats including the International Marathon Swimming Association and the World Professional Marathon Swimming Association, FINA first added open water races
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When the Ultimate Swim Relay made its valiant attempt with 4 swimmers attempting 4 separate, but consecutive, solo swims across the Catalina Channel, their effort called to mind the remarkable 4-way relay crossing by Sport City Mexico of the English Channel. Their 42 hour 11 minute crossing was truly an adventure. The first crossing took
In the third passing in open water swims over the last several weeks, John Sloan was pronounced dead yesterday in the Centegra Hospital-Woodstock where he had been rushed after unsuccessful efforts to revive him on the lake shore after a 1- and 2-mile open water swim in Crystal Lake, outside of Chicago, Illinois. The 58-year-old
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