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Chasing The Sublime from Amanda Bluglass, Devon, United Kingdom. Amanda Bluglass, a Cambridge-educated BBC news reporter, TV producer, documentary director/producer, and a University Lecturer in Media Arts, directed Chasing The Sublime, a film that features British wild swimmers Kate Rew and Kari Furre. The film was sponsored by The Outdoor Swimming Society in association with […]
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Courtesy of Ned Denison, International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame. Doloranda Hannah Pember accepted a International Swimming Hall of Fame honor on behalf of her mother Mercedes Gleitze in 2014. Now, five years later, Pember wrote a biographer about her mother, In The Wake Of Mercedes Gleitze. While much has been written about the famed
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Courtesy of Maratón Acuática Internacional Santa Fe – Coronda, Río Coronda, Argentina. 21 athletes will compete in the 57 km 45° Maratón Acuática Internacional Santa Fe – Coronda from Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador, Italy, Macedonia and Venezuela that will be officiated by Technical Director Jorge Delgado Panchana of Ecuador, Safety Director Morgan Toro Martinez of Puerto
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Courtesy of Maratón Acuática Internacional Santa Fe – Coronda, Río Coronda, Argentina. Damián Blaum is ready to swim another 57 km in the Maratón Acuática Internacional Santa Fe – Coronda in the Río Coronda in Argentina while his wife Esther Nuñez Morera and child Gala will be ready at the finish line on February 3rd.
Courtesy of WOWSA, Cook Strait, New Zealand. Kieron Palframan of South Africa was well-deservedly named one of the World’s 50 Most Adventurous Open Water Men for very good reason for an aquatic career that has spanned the globe. The 44-year-old from Cape Town is an Iron Iceman and Ice Zero Swimmer with 4 Ice Miles
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Maximiliano Paccot has been a force in his native country of Uruguay where he often wins several stages on the Circuito Nacional de Aguas Abiertas de la Federación Uruguaya de Natación (National Open Water Swimming Circuit of the Uruguay Swimming Federation). Some upcoming races in Uruguay include the following
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Courtesy of Chirag Patel, Mumbai, India. The Gateway of India is a monument located on the waterfront in the Apollo Bunder area in South Mumbai, overlooking the Arabian Sea. The Gateway to India Challenge is a 35.3 km marathon swim that goes through Mumbay Bay in India. Chirag Patel reported on much shorter races that
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One trailing swimmer drafting off a lead swimmer. One trailing swimmer drafting between two leading swimmers. Courtesy of Nature. Nature is a British scientific journal, one of the world’s most respected scientific journals and one of the world’s top academic journals that publishes original research across a wide range of fields. In the field of
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