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WOWSA Live April-May Interviews Sponsored by KAATSU Global, Huntington Beach, California. International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame chairman Ned Denison and Antonio Argüelles are the personable, widely traveled hosts of WOWSA Live. WOWSA Lives bring one-on-one interviews with luminaries from the sport of open water swimming from all continents around the world. Denison and Argüelles […]
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Pablo Fernández Álvarez Swimming For COVID-19 Research Courtesy of Libertad Silva, Madrid, Spain. Pablo Fernández Álvarez, a two-time Guinness World Record holder from Spain, is gearing up for his next adventure. Libertad Silva explains, “His record attempt next week in Spain will be a charity swim to support COVID-19 research, especially noteworthy because Fernández himself
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Dr. Jane Katz, Dr. Tim Johnston Talk Manhattan On WOWSA Live Sponsored by KAATSU Global, Manhattan Island, New York. International Marathon Swimming Hall of Famers Dr. Jane Katz and Dr. Tim Johnson talk about the history of swimming around Manhattan Island and the historical Manhattan Island Marathon Swim with International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame
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Mary Missed Melbourne, But Made History Courtesy of NOS.nl. Mary Kok was the first Dutch swimmer to complete a crossing of the English Channel. In 1960, the 20-year-old Kok crossed in 12 hours 25 minutes. When Kok reached the shores of England, she said, “I want to go back. I want to be the first
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Seven Summits’ Karla Wheelock And Oceans Seven’s Mariel Hawley Dávila On WOWSA Live Sponsored by KAATSU Global, Mexico City. Two remarkable Mexican adventurers, Karla Wheelock and Mariel Hawley Dávila, were featured on today’s WOWSA Live with co-hosts and International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame Honor Swimmers Antonio Argüelles and Steven Munatones. Wheelock and Hawley have
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WOWSA Live April Interviews Sponsored by KAATSU Global, Huntington Beach, California. International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame chairman Ned Denison is the personable, widely traveled host of WOWSA Live. WOWSA Lives bring one-on-one interviews with luminaries from the sport of open water swimming from all continents around the world. Denison has swum with, crewed for,
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Mermaid Went On Marathon Mission, Then Appears On FINIS Friday Courtesy of WOWSA, Redondo Beach, California. Merle Liivand competes, runs companies both in her adopted Florida and her native Estonia, models, serves as an ambassador for a number of charitable causes, and enjoys the life of a mermaid. She completed the world’s first 10 km
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Dr. David Smith, The Original Most Interesting Man In The World Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The Most Interesting Man in the World is an advertising campaign for the Dos Equis brand of beer. The ads feature Jonathan Goldsmith as “the world’s most interesting man” and first began appearing in the United States in
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Nejib Belhedi To Run While Swimming Courtesy of WOWSA, Bizerte, Tunisia. Nejib Belhedi is planning to do all kinds of open water swims and channel swims for the rest of his career. But along the way, he is also planning to do something extraordinarily rare, perhaps unprecedented. Belhedi will continue training for channel swims while
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2019-2020 Global Swim Series Champions Courtesy of Global Swim Series. Global Swim Series founder Rob Kent announced, “The first race of the 2019-2020 Global Swim Series season took place in the stunning west of Ireland, on May 18th 2019 – the Lisfannon to Ludden Swim, and should have ended on the other side of the
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