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Alex Kostich Talks About His Passions On WOWSA Live Photo by SBR, Inc. Sponsored by KAATSU Global, Huntington Beach, California. Alex Kostich is one of the most prolific open water swimmers in America who set world records around Bora Bora and Pitcairn Island in the Pacific Ocean. The 50-year-old former collegiate swimmer at Stanford University […]
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Kamil Resa Alsaran Continues To Impress Courtesy of Emre Deliveli. Kamil Resa Alsaran completed 2 separate crossings of the English Channel at the ages of 51 and 54 including a tough 18 hour 1 minute crossing in 2015. After his English Channel crossings, he went on to complete a 5 hour 10 minute crossing of
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Albert Coward Describes Swimming In Golfo di Napoli On WOWSA Live Sponsored by KAATSU Global, Huntington Beach, California. International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame Honor Swimmer Albert Coward spoke about his career swimming around and in the islands of the Gulf of Naples (Golfo di Napoli) in Italy on today’s WOWSA Live series. The 80-year-old
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Victorious Vegans And Vegetarians Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Vegetarians like Vasanti Niemz (2 English Channel crossings + 9 International Self-Transcendence Marathon-Schwimmen), Karteek Clarke (11 English Channel crossings) and Vedika Bolliger (5 English Channel crossings) are experienced open water swimmers who have swum around the world, eating differently than most of their marathon swimming
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When Three Generations Swam From Asia To Europe Photo of Jon, Trent, Debby, and Blake Erikson courtesy of Ted Erikson. The father-and-son duo of Ted and Jon Erikson inducted in the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame brought the next generation of Erikson’s into the open water swimming arena. Ted (at the age of 81)
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Martin + Borut Strel Talk Guitars, Goggles, Gigabytes On WOWSA Live Sponsored by KAATSU Global, Huntington Beach, California. International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame Honor Swimmer Martin Strel and his son Borut Strel talked about their adventures around the world with Ned Denison and Steven Munatones on today’s WOWSA Live program. The 66-year-old role model
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Swimmers Have Their Cake And Eat It Too Sponsored by KAATSU Global, Huntington Beach, California. Donuts continue to be a post-swim treat in Southern California in the same way cake is an open water swimming favorite in the UK. From the Slow Swimming events to the Sandycove Friday Cake Mornings, cake is a great post-swim
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The Ink Well Beach, A Beach To Be Free Courtesy of the City of Santa Monica, California and Blackpast. According to Blackpast, laws were put in place in the State of California between 1893 and 1923 to legislate the right for African American to be able to use any beach in the state. While the
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Jorge Crivilles, Nora Toledano Talk About Enjoying Open Water On WOWSA Live Sponsored by KAATSU Global, Huntington Beach, California. Jorge Crivilles Villanueva from Alicante, Spain has ticked off all kinds of goals in the marathon swimming world. And so has Nora Toledano Cadena who has a similar prolific resume of channel swims under her cap.
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Safety protocols at the Rosen Centre
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