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When Sally Met Charlie On WOWSA Live Sponsored by KAATSU Global, Brisbane, Australia. International Marathon Swimming Hall of Famers Sally Minty-Gravett, MBE and Charlie Gravett. The husband-and-wife duo talked on a wide variety of their experiences with International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame chairman Ned Denison on today’s edition of WOWSA Live. During their engaging […]
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Courtesy of Quinn Fitzgerald, Olympic Club, California. The 2018 Trans Tahoe Relay Awards will take place at The Olympic Club in San Francisco, California. The inaugural event is held after the WOWSA Talks and before the WOWSA Awards ceremony and dinner on November 10th. Three different awards will be presented to swimmers of the 10-mile
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Hanli Prinsloo, Peter Marshall On I Am Water Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. For more information on I Am Water Ocean Travel, visit here. Copyright © 2008 – 2020 by World Open Water Swimming Association
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Cindy Braden Wins Reef & Run Summer Series Courtesy of Reef & Run, Santa Barbara, California. 50-something Cindy Braden has been swimming much of her life. She won the 7th stage of the 2020 Reef and Run Social Media Challenge last week in the series’ most unusual summer season to date. “It is a great
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Courtesy of Ben Stubenberg, Turks & Caicas. s for asking, Steven. The Director of the Department of Environment and Coastal Resources (DECR) technically approved the zone per email two years ago and allowed us to place “Swim Zone” buoys to designate the area and keep out motorized boats. However, the zone was not actually put
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Courtesy of John Leonard, American Swimming Coaches Association, Florida. In this era where a handful of pool swimmers earning millions of United States dollars for their accomplishments – from Michael Phelps to Katinka Hosszu and achievements and numerous other competitive pool and open water swimmers earn enough money to define themselves as professional athletes –
MARIEL HAWLEY Sent: Wed, Sep 2, 2020 at 5:49 pm To: Steven Munatones, Steven Munatones Hi Steven! How are you? I hope everything is going well and you and your family are healthy. I write to you because I’m planning a new route to swim! I´m very excited about it because it will be a
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With the sport of open water swimming growing in all its various niches, World Open Water Swimming Association conducted a survey of the channel swimming world. In this Part 1 of a multi-part series on the open water swimming world, it attempted to estimate the approximate number of channel swimmers around the world. In subsequent
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The water temperature at the open water swimming venue at the Pan American Games has been 29°C (84°F) every day for two weeks. In the afternoon, the water temperature has risen to 30.4°C (86.7°F) which is close to the FINA maximum water temperature guideline of 30.4°C. The race organizers have moved the start times earlier
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