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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The 8.5 km Magnetic Island to Townsville cross-channel swim has been held since 1954 when three surf life savers, Kauko Kaurila, Don Howlett and George Marshall, swam in three separate shark cages from Magnetic Island to Ross Creek in Townsville, Australia. They swam to celebrate a Royal visit by […]
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With 70% of the Earth’s surface covered in water, open water swimmers have a vast choice of where they swim. The world’s waterways range from warm to cold, salt to fresh, calm to rough, man-made to natural. We analyzed 1,423 open water swims in 79 countries throughout Asia, Europe, Oceania, the Americas and Africa and
The 5K Acapulco International 2010 Swim, an Acuática Nelson Vargas event, will be held on January 24th, 2010. The 1K, 1.5K and 5K race will be held in beautiful Acapulco Bay with the start at Las Hamacas Beach and finish at Cici Beach where hundreds of Mexican swimmers from ranked FINA pro marathon swimmers to
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Note: Please see our updated list of the Top 100 Open Water Swimming Books In this virtual, digitally-driven world, the joy of reading a book remains a treasure where you can lose yourself in the world of the written word. Here is a short list of popular and wonderfully entertaining and informative books on open
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On July 1st, 2011, the Special Olympics will hold an open water swimming demonstration event at its 2011 World Summer Games. This exciting development in the world of open water swimming – which truly demonstrates the expanding reach and scope of our sport – will be a 1.5K sea swim, held parallel to the shoreline,
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Germany’s Thomas Lurz and Great Britain’s Keri-Anne Payne won Swimming World Magazine‘s 2009 Open Water Swimmers of the Year awards. While their performances warranted such honors, it was good to hear that Thomas finished among the top 10 vote-getters in Swimming World’s World Swimmers of the Year contest, while other open water swimmers picked up
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The book Champions of Change tells the stories of 38 world-class athletes and explorers sharing their own experiences with climate change. Author Jane Poynter recently launched the book in New York City at the United Nations headquarters together with five of the athletes – Tour de France champion Greg LeMond, US soccer star Natalie Spilger,
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Alexander Studzinski of Germany (representing Europe), Daniel Katzir of Israel (representing Asia), Trent Grimsey (shown on left representing Oceania), Ivan Lopez of Mexico (representing the Americas) and Chad Ho of South Africa (representing Africa) will comprise of the Five Continent Team who will compete head-to-head against five top Brazilian swimmers in the new 10K King
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The 2009 Jersey Long Distance Swimming Club had their annual awards ceremony last week. Since its founding 35 years ago, the Club, specifically created to promote long distance sea swimming, has produced 23 English Channel swimmers (with 28 total crossings) and 65 Round Jersey swims since Denize le Pennec first swum the English Channel in
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We previously reported on Harry Huffaker, arguably the greatest dentist-adventurer of all time and a member of the Hawaii Swimming Hall of Fame. In our story, we mentioned that Harry attempted an English Channel crossing. Harry shared with us a letter from December 28, 1963 written by Peter Frayne about Harry‘s his attempt on the
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