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The Lake Coeur d’Alene Open Water Swim , hosted by CAST (Coeur d’Alene Swim Team), will be in August in Lake Coeur d’Alene, located in the Idaho Panhandle, a popular tourist site with great beaches and scenic views. Swimmers can participate in the 2.5K (one loop), 5K (two loops) and 10K (four loops) races, each […]
Tomás Haces of Cuba is an influential long-time member of the Unión Americana de Natación (UANA) and the FINA Technical Open Water Swimming Committee. Tomás, whose formal name is Teodolo Tomás Haces Germán, was also one of the candidates for the 2009 International Swimming Hall of Fame Honor Contributor for his long-term and dedicated work
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Among the dozens of major decisions announced by the FINA Bureau in Bangkok this year, FINA approved the establishment of a three-person team time trial event (with at least one person from each gender) starting at the 2011 FINA World Swimming Championships in Shanghai, China. The European Championships have already proved the excitement of this
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This Northern Hemisphere spring, Penny Palfrey will attempt one of the most audacious solo marathon swims in the world – a 72.4-mile crossing of the Kaieiewaho Channel from Oahu to Kauai in Hawaii this coming April. Penny will swim between 30-40 hours through gigantic ocean swells, tremendously powerful currents and strong winds that can whip
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Daniel Kowalski, one of the most versatile freestyle pool swimmers in the world, finished third at this year’s Big Swim wearing some…nice black socks. A bit past his prime after winning 4 medals in the 200-, 400- and 1500-meter races at the 1996 and 2000 Olympics, Kowalski was looking
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It was another big finish for Luane Rowe. A week before winning the Cole Classic in Sydney and a free trip to Vanuata for the Vanuatu Ocean Swim in Port Vila on June 12th, 20-year-old Luane Rowe won the 35th annual 2.5K Macquarie Big Swim from Palm Beach to Whale Beach. With her 33 minute
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Paul McCoy of Pacific Swims announced that Lucas Barry and Rina Langenberg were the winners of the Mr. and Mrs. Average among the 3,328 finishers (out of 4,500 entrants and nearly 4,000 starters) at the Cole Classic in Sydney, Australia this past week. By being the swimmers closest to the average gender time in the
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Anne Cleveland, one of the featured speakers at the 2010 Global Open Water Swimming Symposium and Conference in Long Beach, California, is an accomplished speaker who has addressed and enthralled audiences from Fiji to Principality of Monaco with messages and themes tied to the open water. In 2006, Anne swam 6K from Cap Martin in
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In certainly the longest, gutiest race of the year, Damián Blaum dramatically out-touched Alexander Studzinski after an exhausting 8 hour and 23 battle down the Paraná River at the 88K Maratón Hernandarias-Paraná, a FINA Open Water Swimming Grand Prix race in Argentina. Alexander shared his thoughts on finishing a very close second in the longest
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After La Patagones Viedma in Argentina, the second FINA 10KM Marathon Swimming World Cup on the 2010 pro circuit, American Eva Fabian shared her thoughts on the incredibly close race in the 22°C (72°F) waters of the Río Negro River where Angela Maurer of Germany (2:03:34) just touched out Karla Šitić of Croatia (2:03:34) and
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