Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. https://www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/news/david-gerrard-named-swimming-new-zealand-president/ Former Commonwealth Games Champion, New Zealand team Chef de Mission and world-renowned sports administrator Dr. David Gerrard (CNZM, OBE), was appointed Swimming New Zealand President. While his Gerrard won a gold medal at the 1966 Kingston Commonwealth Games in the men’s 220-yard butterfly and was a member of […]

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“I love the logistics and planning of a swim,” describes Wayne Soutter at the 2013 Global Open Water Swimming Conference in Cork, Ireland. A swim in 1928 and 1929 was attempted 3 times by Mercedes Gleitze that attracted his attention between Scotland and Ireland. “What I needed was a boat and a captain,” explains Soutter.

Courtesy of FINA, Tateyama Hojo Coast, Chiba Prefecture, Japan. Ana Marcela Cunha will face off with Haley Anderson and Ashley Twichell at the 10 km race that culminates the 2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships on the Tateyama Hojo Coast in Chiba Prefecture, Japan on Tuesday. Copyright © 2008-2018 by World Open Water Swimming Association

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. OPEN WATER SWIMMING Loch Lomond & The Trossachs National Park Fastest time wins with male and female events in a 5k, 10k and 25k open water course. 4 athletes can also join together to compete in the 5k team event. August 8th: Women’s and Men’s 5 km August 9th:

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The opening stage of the LEN Open Water Swimming Cup 2018 will be held tomorrow in Eilat, Israel. Athletes come from all over Europe to compete in LEN (Ligue Européenne de Natation) open water swimming competitions, but a lone American, Eva Fabian, has been sharing her experience and expertise

I am very happy of your huge interest. The swim was evented in 15th August, 2012. The date is meaningful, because it is the nationl memorial day, “Gwang-bok(the restoration of independence) jeol(special day)” The same day in 1945, the restoration of independence of Korea from Japan. in 1948, the government of the Reblic of Korea

http://www.getset4success.co.uk/news_item.php?wnID=100001068 BUTTERFLY RECORD MANHATTAN July 16th 2011 Dr. Julie ‘Madfish’ Bradshaw has completed another ‘milestone’ in the history of long distance butterfly swimming. On Saturday 16th July 2011 she made another record with her favourite and hardest stroke by circumnavigating the 28.5 miles course around Manhattan Island, New York in a fastest ever traditional ‘fly’

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Güneş Kibar PhD, MSc is a Fulbright Scholar, a Turkish swimmer and an event organizer of the Youth and Sports Club of Hacettepe Üniversitesi in Turkey. She is a Turkish lecturer who is a Fulbright Scholar and researcher who is developing novel means to produce micro and nanostructured lipid carriers at