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America has nearly 95,000 miles of coastline where over 50% of the total American population lives near the coast. Along the East and West coasts – not counting the tens of thousands of cities and towns dotting hundreds of thousands of lakes across America – one city stands out in the aquatic world. Long Beach, […]
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Olympians will join 3,000 swimmers in the kick-off swim of the Great Swim series, the British Gas Great East Swim in Alton Water reservoir. Colin Hill reports, “The event has doubled in size since it was first staged in 2009, proving that outdoor swimming is the next great challenge.” Defending champion Tom Allen, one of
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Vito Bialla announced another intrepid swim only a few weeks after wisely pulling his team 63.8 nautical miles (118K) from the start in the jellyfish-strewn waters of the Sea of Cortez Swim in Mexico. “Our team of Night Train Swimmers expects to take 10-14 hours depending on weather conditions,
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The annual Manhattan Island Marathon Swim is this Saturday, starting at 7:25 am near Wall Street. With the water temperature around 65°F (ranging from 17-19°C), the athletes will surface chop, substantial tidal flows and boat traffic for the entire 8-9 hour event. Besides the relay swimmers, this year’s event
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Chloe Sutton showed her superior strength and speed on the backstretch of the last loop at the USA Swimming National 10K Open Water Swimming Championships in Long Beach, California when she zoomed into the lead with ease. See The Athlete Village video below. After a fast pace throughout the race (1st 2K loop: 23:49, 2nd
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Hannah Smith, a 21-year-old fourth-year medical student from Glasgow, Scotland, is aiming to become the fastest person to swim across the Little Minch (formerly known as Scotland’s fjord). “I decided that this was the perfect year to attempt what has been a longstanding dream of mine: to swim across the Minch.” “It is 15 miles
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The 2010 USA Swimming National Open Water Swimming Championship photos are posted here. The Long Beach Press Telegram provided greatly appreciated articles before and after the event with front-page coverage. Race results are as follows: Men’s 10K, Women’s 10K, Men’s 5K, Women’s 5K, Solo 2K Open Water Pursuit, Trio Team 2K Open Water Pursuit, Quad
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Coaches Matt Mitchell and Hank Wise of Beach Swim Club Masters give open water-specific workouts that are great for swimmers and triathletes. For example, for the upcoming Huntington Beach Pier Swim, Matt and Hank know that specific pool workouts will give their athletes an advantage. “When you come back into the surf, your heart is
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Back in 2008 in her first major international open water championship in Seville, Spain, Christine Jennings was sandwiched between world champions Melissa Gorman, Poliana Okimoto and Angela Maurer – and learned a lesson on how rough and strategic the sport of open water swimming can be. But step-by-step since the world’s best crashed into her,
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18-year-old Deni Cullom of the Mission Viejo Nadadores navigated through a flotilla of nine men over the last 1K of the USA Swimming National 5K Open Water Swimming Championships in Long Beach, California to upset a star-studded field of the best American open water swimmers. From the start when 66 men started shoulder-to-shoulder and sprinted
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