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Courtesy of Daniel Tan, Singapore Swimming Association. LIBERTY INSURANCE REVIVES OPEN WATER SWIM AFTER 10 YEAR HIATUS Singapore – Open Water Swimming is one of the most grueling forms of swimming. Other than battling the currents and elements of the weather, the swimmer would also need to possess the mental strength and endurance to push […]
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Jen – try e.g. http://slovenian.wunderground.com/MAR/buoy/62304.html?graphtype=1 – this site gives you monthly graphs and tables for 62304 buoy. Copyright © 2011 by Open Water Source
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Ivanka Gavanski is a 37-year-old American open water swimmer, runner and triathlete from San Diego, California. A chemistry graduate of York University in Toronto, Canada, she works in a managerial position at Santarus, but is tearing up the waterways in San Diego. Gavanski is a frequent participant in ocean swims and is the early leader
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Adriano Passini‘s The Challenge of the English Channel: A Spiritual Approach of the Mount Everest Swimming will be available on Kindle Copyright © 2016 by World Open Water Swimming Association
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Michael Oram, an inductee in the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame with hundreds of successful English Channel swims under his belt, gave these words of wisdom* to the Google Channel Swimmers Group: “If you attempt to swim the English Channel, you can
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. LEEDS, UK–At the British Swimming Coaches Association (BSCA) Conference last weekend, Melanie Marshall garnered a third-straight Coach of the Year (CotY) honours. Marshall was cited for her work with Adam Peaty. Disability CotY honors went to Glenn Smith, and Youth CotY went to Alan Bircher. A report on the
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Pieter Christian Jongeneel Anderica of Málaga, Spain completed a double circumnavigation swim of Manhattan Island in New York in 20 hours 15 minutes. Jongeneel’s time broke the existing record of American Skip Storch of 20 hours 56 minutes set in 2007 en route to Storch’s triple circumnavigation swim in
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The UIPM Biathle/Triathle World Championships will be held between October 21st-23rd at Nathan Benderson Park, a 2 km rowing course and Regatta Center in Sarasota, Florida. BIATHLE RULES 2016 1 GENERAL ASPECTS 1.1 Definition 1.2 Sphere of application 1.3 Categories 1.4 Formats 1.5 Age Groups and sequence of events
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. It is nearly impossible to accurately predict the medalists in the Olympic 10K Marathon Swim at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games…but some athletes are ideally prepared to swim the race of their lives and capture gold. One of those athletes is a two-time Olympic veteran who came within 0.4
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