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Florian Wellbrock Wins 2020 Tokyo Olympics Qualifier Courtesy of FINA, Yeosu EXPO Ocean Park, Gwangju, South Korea. Florian Wellbrock won the FINA World Championships 10 km marathon swim. His victory qualifies him as the top seed for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games 10 km race – by the slimmest of margins. The 21-year-old Wellbrock, one […]
Courtesy of Quinn Fitzgerald, Olympic Club, San Francisco, California. Last year, The Olympic Club Rough Water Team set a goal to be the first six-person relay team in history to complete the Oceans Seven – seven major channel crossings around the world. “We did Catalina last summer, we’ll do Molokai to Oahu this summer and
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. What is very cool in the open water swimming community – from ocean swimming to ice swimming, from wild swimming to marathon swimming – is the natural, person-to-person passing of information and advice from the older generations to the younger. Because everything is changing so rapidly (e.g., technology, geopolitics,
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The Spanish Government agency responsible for sport, Consejo Superior de Deportes, annually grants honors called the Premios Nacionales del Deporte to athletes, sport federations, and organizations. The Spanish Royal Family gives these prizes in various categories. Last year, International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame inductee Montserrat Tresserras was similarly honored by the Spanish Royal Family.
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Courtesy of International Winter Swimming World Championships, Lake Bled, Slovenia. 100 J 1. MCGOWAN, Ellery 46 South London Swimming Club 1:49.47 49.86 59.61 2. DUDINA, Nadezhda 47 1:49.65 50.72 58.93 3. PORTINGALE, Jacky 50 South West Seals 2:23.88 1:04.67 1:19.21 4. IVANITSKAYA, Vera 48 Fzpso 2:43.86 1:11.17 1:32.69 5. ELVET, Malle 48 U-Klubi 3:02.62 1:24.45
FINA – the international governing body for the sport of swimming – has once again failed in its key role as guardian of the aquatic sports and athletes. In the past, FINA has consistently been on the wrong side of key issues involving the integrity of swimming. Among them are the issues of doping and
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How Clean Is The Charles River? Courtesy of Lily Moy, Charles River, Massachusetts. The Charles River flows from Hopkinton to the Boston Harbor has been a key waterway was named by King Charles I of England upon the first colonials moving to the area in Massachusetts. The 80-mile river has been utilized for all kinds
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Courtesy of Ned Denison, International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame. Copyright © 2008-2018 by World Open Water Swimming Association
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When Paul Asmuth Came Back To Win In 1985 Courtesy of President Gilles Potvin, Vice President Claudio Plit, and Secretary Dennis Matuch, World Professional Marathon Swimming Federation. 1985 World Professional Marathon Swimming Federation Standings Men 1. Paul Asmuth (USA) 1,540 points 2. William Schmidt (USA) 1,127 points 3. Ron Neugent (USA) 771 points 4. James
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Anna-Corin Nordin On WOWSA Live Sponsored by KAATSU Global, Huntington Beach, California. International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame Honor Swimmer Anna-Carin Nordin Ned Denison of the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame interviewed Griffiths on today’s WOWSA Live program. Bell recounted the following. * Oceans Seven * * * * * * * For more
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