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Colin Hill, a candidate for the World Open Water Swimming Man of the Year, and the top open water swimmers in the world apparently do not know how to slow down. In between organizing the popular Great Swims, Colin took the time to swim the English Channel last summer. Similarly, the world’s top open water […]
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Open water freestyler…body surfer promoter…world-record high diver…surfer shaper…Alick Wickham was truly an aquatic innovator and pioneer. Alick from Roviana Lagoon in the Solomon Islands was credited with shaping the first surfboard in Australia and introducing the crawl stroke (freestyle) to Australia when he demonstrated the crawl at Bronte Beach in Australia, although the freestyle at
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FINA will post its 2010 FINA 10KM Marathon Swimming World Cup schedule and its 2010 FINA Open Water Swimming Grand Prix schedule later today on the FINA open water swimming website. The schedule for the 2010 FINA 10KM Marathon Swimming World Cup circuit, won last year by Thomas Lurz and Poliana Okimoto, includes: 1. Santos,
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The Fran Schnarr Memorial Swim race director Bea Hartigan has always been a very strong supporter of open water swimming. She has committed to adding a 10K race to the Fran Schnarr Memorial Swim (Metropolitan Swimming Open Water Championships) on July 11th if 10 swimmers sign up by January 9, 2010. Who will take up
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Alannah Jury of New Zealand threw down a very fast 10K race at the Swim Karapiro Open Water Festival with a 1 hour 59 minutes swim. “It will be raising eyebrows in Australia,” said the race director Errol Newlands. “It’s right up there with the best of the best.” “We talked about it afterwards, how
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The 2010 Axxess DSL Ocean Racing Series in Nelson Mandela Bay, Port Elizabeth in South Africa is a great place to be for an open water swimmer during the Easter holidays. The fifth annual Series will feature a special challenge race this year that will showcase the endurance, grit and sprinting talents of the world’s
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The ever-growing, always popular multi-race (0.3K tag team relay, 0.7K and 2.8K) Sovereign New Zealand Ocean Swim Series has gotten off to a great start with its first two races of the Southern Hemisphere summer season: the Harbour Crossing Auckland and Russell to Paihia Bay of Islands have been completed. In the first race of
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Two-time Catalina Channel swimmers Cindy Walsh (13:56 in 2007 and 9:55 in 2008) and Jim Fitzpatrick (9:47 in 2001 and 14:59 in an unprecedented Catalina to Newport Beach crossing in 2008) completed a 15-mile swim across Lake Pend Oreille in Idaho earlier this year. The marathon swimming duo has an interesting story on why they
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Twenty ocean swimmers from all over the island of Tenerife in the Canary Islands contributed to the Walk for Life in a uniquely aquatic way. While 800 people walked the route along the beach front, the open water athletes swam along the same 3.4K course under strong winds and currents. In a show of solidarity
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Dan Martin will cross the Atlantic Ocean the hard way – and many say, the right way – no wetsuit, no floating on currents and starting every swim on every new day from the exact same point which he finished the previous day. In a show of solidarity, the global marathon swimming community is coming