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Great places to conduct open water races or do training sessions are located all over the world. The number of seashores, ocean fronts, islands, lakes, bays, river, fjords, canals, estuaries, bays and lagoons located on every continent and in every country is literally innumerable. As a small sampling of the amazing number of great global […]
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Where are some absolutely wonderful places to swim? Dr. Stephen P. Leatherman, Directorof Florida International University’s Laboratory for Coastal Research, better known as Dr. Beach, announced his 20th annual Top 10 Beaches in America. The 2010 list was topped by Coopers Beach which was ranked #3 in 2009 and #4 in 2008 and finally overtook
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Ian Clark, a former NCAA swimmer at SMU, and Justine Mueller, a national pool champion from SwimMAC Carolina, won their respective divisions at the U.S. Masters Swimming 1-mile Open Water Swimming Championships in Lake Norman, North Carolina today. 25-year-old Ian won in 18:55 as he pulled away from 22-year-old Mason Brunnick (19:11) after the pair
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WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Since the announcement by the International University Sports Federation (FISU) of its new 10km open water swimming event to its Summer Universiades (known at the World University Games), it has been quite easy to imagine a collegiate open water swimming championship to be held sometime in the near future in America.
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International Marathon Swimming Hall of Famer David Clark, an English Channel and Catalina Channel swimmer, coach and kayaker, will give a presentation at the upcoming Global Open Water Swimming Conference on providing the optimal support for open water swimmers. “The support crew is essential to the success of any open water swim. I will explain
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Anne Cleveland, who will attempt to become the world’s first ‘double-double channel swimmer‘ by completing a double-crossing of both the English Channel and Catalina Channel, will present an enlightening speech and historical overview at the Global Open Water Conference. Anne will speak on “Women in Open Water Swimming: a History of Successful Women in Open
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The Sea of Cortez Swim did not reach their ultimate goal of 182K in the beautiful Mexican seas, but they certainly gave it their best shot with a 63.8 nautical mile (118K) 36 hour 58 minute effort. You can see the speed of their swimming at a video here … and how it all ended.
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The legendary dynamo Penny Dean will give a speech to the Triathlon Club of San Diego on June 2nd. Penny, along with fellow Hall of Famer John Kinsella, in the 1970’s truly elevated the quality of marathon swimming with her focused workouts and extraordinarily fast channel crossings. Penny and John looked at marathon swims as
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A video interview of Lewis Pugh after his Swim on Mt Everest – Swim for Peace was broadcast on Fox News and many other media outlets around the world. You can see Lewis swimming breaststroke as he balanced his high-altitude swim (5300 meters or 17000+ feet) with the altitude here: Copyright © 2010 by Open
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Every open water swim has volunteers, people who unselfishly give their time, talents and energies to support open water swimmers from the English Channel or to Fiji. Volunteers include pilots, kayakers, feeders, on-land support crew, safety personnel and officials, those men and women who serve as impartial judges of the sport. At the upcoming USA
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