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The 5K Acapulco International 2010 Swim website was announced yesterday. For more information on this warm-water 1K, 1.5K and 5K event on January 23, go here. Hundreds of swimmers from FINA pro marathon swimmers to children, budding triathletes and competitive masters swimmers swim across the beautiful Acapulco Bay on Mexico’s west coast. For those who […]
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Rick Heltzel has won the ‘Double Roughwater’, officially billed as the 28th Possibly Annual Hawaiian Christmas Looong Distance Invitational Rough-H2O Swim, for the umpteenth time this past weekend. With conditions the best in the race’s 28-year history, it was the first time that all swimmers finished under three hours over the 7K course. With the
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There are two established professional marathon swimming circuits in the world, both sanctioned by FINA and organized by local race committees. The FINA 10KM Marathon Swimming World Cup circuit are races limited to 10 kilometers held in oceans, seas, bay and lakes from Canada to China. The FINA Open Water Swimming Grand Prix are longer
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The race directors for the Sea King Challenge in Rio de Janeiro have announced an even larger cash prize for the ten pro swimmers competing in the unique 10K course on Copacabana Beach. The ten pros will be fighting over US$10,000 (R$18,500). We will cover the new pro 10K Sea King Challenge live from Rio
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The Daily News of Open Water Swimming is running a public online poll on what are open water swimmers’ greatest fears in the open water. You can select up to three choices (see below) at the online poll at The Daily News of Open Water Swimming: 1. Sharks2. Jellyfish/stingrays3. Other marine life4. Seaweed/kelp5. Pollution6. Waves/currents/tides7.
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The Daily News of Open Water Swimming is running a public online poll on what people do or think about while open water swimming (both in training and in competition). You can select up to five choices (see below) at the online poll at the Daily News of Open Water Swimming: 1. Sing2. Pray 3.
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If you were curious about what happens at the open water swimming events at the biennial FINA World Swimming Championships, a number of illustrative photos from the 2007 Championships in Melbourne, Australia are posted here: Copyright © 2008 – 2009 by World Open Water Swimming Association
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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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