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Camlough Is In The (Guinness) Books Courtesy of WOWSA, Lake Camlough, Northern Ireland. The Camlough Team, comprising of swimmers all over Ireland, received verification from the Guinness Book of World Records that they now officially hold the World Record for the Longest Continuous Open Water Relay Swim. Without a doubt, this is one record that […]
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Birkirkara St. Joseph Sports Club, the center for endurance sports in Malta, has an active open water swimming community. The Birkirkara St. Joseph team swam around the entire Maltese archipelago (excluding the island of Filfla due to Maltese Maritime Law), which lies centrally located in the Mediterranean Sea, 93K south of Sicily. Keith Bartolo, a
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Open water race directors around the world currently define the size of their events in various ways. Their numbers – which can be skewed and viewed in different ways in seven different ways – bring a healthy perspective on the growth of the sport. 1. The total number of swimmers entered in a competitively timed
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Lisbon’s King and Queen of the Sea Europe offers you a chance to become open water royalty. Portugal’s newest open water swim offers two ocean races: a 1.5K and a 5K on April 25th, held in conjunction with the popular Lisboa Triathlon. The 5K race is the European qualification race for elite athletes competing for
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Exciting University Open Water News Sponsored by KAATSU Global, Huntington Beach, California. In very exciting news, the International University Sports Federation (FISU) announced the addition of a 10K open water swimming event to its Summer Universiades competitions. The first 10 km marathon swim will be held at the 2011 Summer Universiade in Shenzhen, China. Bill
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The 2010 USA Swimming National Open Water Swimming Championships will be the signature event over an exciting week of open water swimming events in Long Beach, California during the first week of June. Elite athletes as well as age-group swimmers and masters athletes will be in for quite a treat. Marine Stadium, site of the
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A day after the exciting FINA 10KM Marathon Swimming World Cup race in Viedma, the the third and longest race (88K) on the FINA Open Water Swimming Grand Prix circuit took place in the Paraná River from Hernandarias to Paraná in Argentina (the 16th Maratón Hernandarias-Paraná). Argentina hero Damián Blaum was the first to reach
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Karen Rogers, whose 21.5-mile crossing of California’s Lake Tahoe was nominated as one of the Great Open Water Swims of 2009 has even bigger, more audacious plans for 2010: she will attempt to the first person to swim from the rugged Farallons, a group of islands 43K (27 miles) west of the Golden Gate Bridge
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In addition to Karen Rogers‘ planned swim from the Farallon Islands to Aquatic Park in San Francisco Bay in June and Anne Cleveland‘s attempt to become the first person to do a double-crossing of both the English Channel and Catalina Channel in August, Penny Palfrey will be the first major swim of the year. Penny
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Shelley Taylor-Smith captured the amazingly close finish between Evgeny Drattsev of Russia and Chad Ho of South Africa at the Santos, Brazil FINA 10KM Marathon Swimming World Cup where it appears that Chad just missed touching the finish pad, giving Evgeny the opportunity to claim the US$2,500 first prize. According to Shelley, “Regardless of who
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