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Courtesy of S.C.A.R. Swim Challenge, Roosevelt Lake, Arizona. Sunset indicates the start time of Day 4 of the S.C.A.R. Swim Challenge on Roosevelt Lake in Arizona After 15.2 km across Saguaro Lake on Day 1, 14.4 km across Canyon Lake on Day 2, and 27.3 km across Apache Lake on Day 3, a slew of […]
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Together with Mark Leighton in 2018, John Myatt completed the first double crossing of the English Channel by a two-person male relay and they swam from England to France in 10 hours 41 minutes and from France back to England in 12 hours 8 minutes in a overall time of 22 hours 49 minutes.
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Courtesy of Kent Nicholas, S.C.A.R. Swim Challenge, Canyon Lake, Arizona. Under the Arizona sun, two 38-year-olds Jessica Kieras and John Batchelder are literally turning the 4-day S.C.A.R. Swim Challenge into a mano-a-(wo)mano dual. The 38-year-old from Colorado, Batchelder, and the 38-year-old Kieras are separated by only 1.9 seconds after the 15.2 km Day 1 stage
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Courtesy of Captain Tim Johnson, PE, History of Open-Water Marathon Swimming. Captain Tim Johnson, PE, author of the History of Open-Water Marathon Swimming, wrote about the first recorded swim in a newspaper article: The public history of open water swimming begins with a swimming event that took place in London on September 17th 1791. In
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S.C.A.R. Swim Challenge Breeds Toughness Courtesy of S.C.A.R. Swim Challenge, Apache Lake, Arizona. Catherine Breed is training for a crossing of the notorious North Channel between Northern Ireland and Scotland, but she took a workout detour to the American southwest desert. Breed, a 26-year-old former competitive swimmer at the University of California Berkeley, won the
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Courtesy of Pierre Gadelha, Rio Negro, Brazil. On April 13th, Pierre Gadelha started a new marathon swimming project called the Amazon Challenge that includes 18 km or 30 km races and opportunities for swimmers to schedule either of these two distances any day of the year. The swimmer Alan Viana finished the 30 km distance
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Courtesy of S.C.A.R. Swim Challenge, Canyon Lake, Arizona. Under the Arizona sun, Jessica Kieras turned the tables on another 38-year-old on Day 2 of the 4-day S.C.A.R. Swim Challenge. The 38-year-old from Oregon beat John Batchelder by 37 seconds to win the 14.4 km Canyon Lake stage. Batchelder had finished ahead of Kieras by 39
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Courtesy of Oliver Halder, International Winter Swimming Association, Petrozavodsk, Russia. The overall male and female age group winners of the most recent International Winter Swimming Association World Cup season were both Germans: Christof Wandratsch with 636 points in the 50-54 age group and Jaqueline Jänike with 630 points in the 55-59 age group. The pair
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Unique Awards In The Open Water Swimming World, Part 17 Courtesy of WOWSA, Bermuda. The Bermuda Four Corners Challenge is a series of 4-mile swims in Bermuda that are held without safety boats, buoys or route markers in scenic, but less commonly swum, parts of Bermuda that was created by Mike Cash. The four courses
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