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After the first highly successful King of the Sea (Rei Do Mar Desafio) race in Rio de Janiero, the innovative professional and amateur race series is expanding to Portugal with the King and Queen of the Seas (Rei e Rainha do Mar in Portuguese). It should be a battle royale. Paulo Passos Leite and the
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The International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame honored the offspring of Reg Brickell Senior in its 2009 Class, Reg Brickell Jr. and Ray Brickell. While the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame has honored husband-and-wife (Roger and Valerie Parsons and Ray and Audrey Scott), twins (Carole and Sarah Hunt), father-and-daughter (Robert and Christine Cossette), father-and-son
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International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame Honour Swimmer Montserrat Tresserras Dou wrote a wonderful Spanish-language book entitled “Nadando El Estrecho, Sus Orígenes Y Su Historia“. Translated as “Swimming the Strait, Its Origin and History”, the book adds to any open water swimming collection. The 287-page hard cover book, sponsored by the Madrid Government’s Culture &
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A September 1979 issue of Sports Illustrated Magazine included a great story on John Kinsella, a former Sullivan Award winner and one of the greatest professional marathon swimmers in history, who really helped usher in the modern era of marathon swimming with his tremendous pool speed and endurance. His story of his English Channel swim
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Simon Ercoli of Italy and Cecilia Biagioli of Argentina won the first race in the professional marathon swimming circuit in Rosario, Argentina over the weekend. Simon finished just ahead in 1:55:04.3 over Alexander Studzinski of Germany in in 1:55:04.6 in the 15K race in 24°C river water (see below). Frenchman Bertrand Venturi was third in
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Jamie Patrick of San Francisco will attempt an unprecedented triple crossing of Lake Tahoe in August 2010. The courageous Triple Tahoe swim is a 66-mile (106K) three-way crossing of Lake Tahoe by the former All-American swimmer from the University of Hawaii who is a highly successful endurance athlete. Besides an English Channel relay under his
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In July 2011, the Special Olympics will hold an open water swimming demonstration event at its 2011 World Summer Games. This exciting development in the world of open water swimming – which truly demonstrates the expanding reach and scope of the sport – will be a 1.5K sea swim, held parallel to the shoreline. The
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One of the top professional marathon swimmers in the world, and a former FINA World Cup winner, Mazen Mohamed Aziz of Egypt, is now training at Southern Illinois University under the tutelage of the Americas Open Water Swimming Man of the Year Rick Walker. “We are pleased to have Mazen join us here at Southern
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Tom Hetzel Ph.D. of Texas had an incredible streak from 1967-1977 when he successfully completed 8 crossing of the English Channel in 10 years. Heltzel, a 1980 inductee in the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame wrote a book called Conquest in the English Channel. One of Tom’s many memorable lines was, “Throw away the
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