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At the Global Open Water Swimming Conference in Long Beach, California, Steven Munatones gave out three Lifetime Achievement Awards to Greta Andersen, Siga Rose and Dan Empfield for their body of outstanding work in the open water as an athlete, visionary and coach respectively.
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Dan Albano of the Orange County Register wrote an article on American Chloe Sutton‘s victory at the USA Swimming National 10K Open Water Swimming Championships on Friday. Her victory that now legitimately places Chloe on top of the American long-distance freestyle worlds in both the pool and open water. She now potentially has a summer
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The finish of the USA Swimming National 10K Open Water Swimming Championships is shown below and here, brought to you by The Athlete Village who filmed the entire race from the lead boat from the men’s and women’s races. Fantastic. Exciting. Thrilling. A full analysis of the men’s and
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. At the start of the USA Swimming National 10K Open Water Swimming Championships 47 men and over 40 women started shoulder-to-shoulder … and the race came down to a shoulder-to-shoulder battle where Fran Crippen and Chloe Sutton emerged victorious. Alex Meyer of Harvard University who pushed the pace during
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Over 35,000 individuals from 158 countries voted online in a poll sponsored by blueseventy in 2009. Blueseventy’s annual award and acknowledgement of the heroes and heroines of the global open water community is meant to honor individuals from three perspectives. The annual award to those individuals who best embody the spirit of open water swimming,
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The 10K San Francisco Bridge to Bridge Swim to be held in the San Francisco Bay on July 11th is a special event limited to 45 highly qualified athletes. The race will begin at the Golden Gate Bridge and finish at the San Francisco Bay Bridge with the water temperature expected to be 55-61°F (12.7-16°C).
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Renowned marathon swimmer Penny Dean spoke at the Triathlon Club of San Diego this week about her initial failures in the open water and her ultimate successes in the Catalina Channel and English Channel. A video broadcast of Penny’s talk to the triathlon crowd is available at the Triathlon
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. 2-time Olympic medalist Larsen Jensen, one of the mainstays of the American Olympic and national team since 2003, has transitioned his renowned intensity from the pool to larger goals for his country. En route to becoming a Navy SEAL where the physiological and psychological preparation is intense, Jensen will
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Active.com wrote a race preview of this weekend’s USA Swimming National Open Water Swimming Championships in Long Beach, California. As we observed some of the world’s top swimmers (from the US, Canada, Mexico, Hungary, South Africa and Egypt) train, the lengths of which their coaches will go in order to properly train and escort them
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Sam ‘The Iceman’ Silver will head to Long Beach to participate in the 2K Open Water Pursuit race with Olympian Mark Warkentin and 7-time world marathon swimming champion Shelley Taylor-Smith. Sam, a Special Olympics athlete from Northern California who trained for an English Channel attempt in 2002, enjoys swimming in cooler waters. After becoming friends
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