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Courtesy of Brent Rutemiller, International Swimming Hall of Fame. Great to hear from you and I trust you are doing well. I still want you to move your HQ to the Hall of Fame. Take a look at this video to get a sense of where we are heading: https://youtu.be/1wvsjhHHc5UVideo can’t be loaded because JavaScript […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Photo by George Burba / shutterstock.com. Copyright © 2015 by World Open Water Swimming Association
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Auckland Marathon Swim When and where Date: Sunday 22 April 2017 Assemble: 7:00am, Mairangi Bay, Auckland, New Zealand Start time: 8:00 am Tide: 12:22 pm Nominal cutoff time: 4.5 hrs Finish and Prize giving: Devonport, Auckland, New Zealand Copyright © 2008-2017 by World Open Water Swimming Association
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. An Olympic dream came true for many today at the final FINA Olympic Marathon Swim Qualifier in Parque Urbano de Albarquel in Setúbal Bay, Portugal. 15 swimmers qualified for the Tokyo Olympics including Hector Pardoe who raced against his British teammate Tobias Patrick Robinson to capture the overall victory
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Courtesy of Michael Schaub and Timothy Bracy, http://www.mensjournal.com/sports/collections/the-64-best-sports-books-of-all-time-w500930, Men’s Journal. Muhammad Ali, Jesse Owens, Walter Peyton, Babe Ruth, Bill Bradley, 1960 Olympics, race horses like Seabiscuit, #46 – Find a Way, Diana Nyad Swimmer Nyad, then 64 years old, shocked the world in 2013 when she swam from Cuba to Florida without a shark cage;
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The International Swimming Hall of Fame inducted 18 new members last week. The list of inducted members included seven swimmers, three water polo players, two divers, two coaches, two open water swimmers, one synchro swimmer and one photographer. The athletes and contributors were inducted into the hall on August
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The International Swimming Hall of Fame announced Lewis Gordon Pugh, a British environmental activist, pioneer swimmer, maritime lawyer and motivational speaker, as its 2011 recipient of the prestigious Presidential Award. Lewis will accept his award on May 6th during the Honor Induction Weekend in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The International Swimming Hall of Fame‘s Presidential Award
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. In the same way that athletes swim 2.4 miles in the Waikiki Roughwater Swim or 1 mile in the Great Swims, athletes are correctly credited with the shortest straight-line tangent when they do any kind of open water swim, even if they swim
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Shelley Taylor-Smith is organizing the Team STS Turkey Tour at the Bosphorous Strait Swim & Gallipoli Swim. The tour is open to only 100 Australians and New Zealanders. Option 1 includes the Bosphorous Swim in Turkey. Option 2 includes the Gallipoli Swim Tour (no race) Copyright © 2016 by
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Edgewater Park, Tauranga, Bay of Plenty, New Zealan Copyright © 2012 by Open Water Source
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