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Rei & Rainha do Mar Defines The New Open Water Normal Courtesy of Patrick Winkler, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Patrick Winkler reported on the 2020 Rei & Rainha do Mar, “With more than 60 starts and 2,000 athletes, Rei & Rainha do Mar defined the new normal. The largest swimming event in Brazil established a […]
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Ronnie Wong Man Chiu Honored By International Marathon Swimming Hall Of Fame Courtesy of Ned Denison, International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame. Ronnie Wong Man Chiu was elected as an Honor Administrator in the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame Class of 2021. Wong is the long-time chairman of the FINA Technical Open Water Swimming
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Sponsored by KAATSU Global, Huntington Beach, California. Roosevelt Lake is known among marathon swimmers at the last leg and last stage of the Arizona S.C.A.R. Swim Challenge. The 10 km night swim culminates the 4-stage, 4-day SCAR Swim Challenge and is hosted in Roosevelt Lake that is 25.3 km from length-to-length at its furthest point.
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Sponsored by KAATSU Global, Huntington Beach, California. Joe Zemaitis, coach of Swim Neptune, described his second night of swimming during his 47 hour 23 minute 33 second Roosevelt 4.5 Swim in Roosevelt Lake on today’s edition of WOWSA Live. In the WOWSA Live interview, Coach Zemaitis talked about swimming through the second night on his
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UK TV Premiere Of Against The Tides Courtesy of Stefan Stuckert. Against the Tides, a documentary film about Beth French‘s attempt to complete the Oceans Seven within one calendar year, will premiere in the UK on November 15th at 7:15pm GMT on Sky Documentaries. Sky Documentaries is a new Sky channel with an exclusive library
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Sponsored by KAATSU Global, San Francisco Bay, California. Time Magazine selected Bonnie Tsui‘s Why We Swim as one of its 100 Must-Read Books of 2020. Tsui discussed her highly acclaimed book with one of the book’s protagonists Kimberley Chambers in May on WOWSA Live. Tsui is a life-long swimmer, first introduced to the water as
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Courtesy of KAATSU Global, Huntington Beach, California. 38-year-old International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame Honor Swimmer Damián Blaum of Argentina has enjoyed and endured one of the most prolific careers on the professional marathon swimming circuit. He has created Jornadas de Formación en Aguas Abiertas with Damián Blaum, a 24-hour 8-week virtual educational curriculum of
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Courtesy of Ned Denison, International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame. Gabriel Chaillou of Argentina was elected as an Honor Swimmer in the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame in the Class of 2021. Denison interviewed Chaillou for today’s WOWSA Live where he talked about: * how he saw all his swims as special including races
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Greatness, however defined, is the quality of being great, distinguished, or eminent. “When I think of great open water swimmers, certain names immediately come to mind,” says Steven Munatones. “In history, there were people like Lord Byron, Captain Matthew Webb, Gertrude Ederle, Duke Kahanamoku, Alick Wickham, Robert Dowling, and Annette Kellerman. In the latter half
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Steven Munatones recalled, “I have swum many times in Okinawa, the southernmost prefecture of Japan. The archipelago is near Taiwan. The waters are beautiful and challenging with hundreds of islands, some uninhabited and each dotted with coral reefs. The longer swims included a 29 km circumnavigation around Yonaguni Island in Okinawa with hundreds of hammerhead
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