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Courtesy of Adherbal de Oliveira, Leme to Pontal Swimming Association, Brazil. On January 8th at near midnight, Marcio Santos Junqueira started the 35 km Travessia do Leme ao Pontal. He swam along the coast of Rio de Janeiro, passing Sugar Loaf, the Christ the Redeemer statue, Cagarras Archipelago, Arpoador, and the beaches of Copacabana and […]
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Courtesy of Gary Standen, Swimming With Shivers. Gary Standen and Claire Bunker-Fellingham co-wrote Swimming With Shivers. The book includes true stories from and about open water swimmers doing cold water, winter and ice swimming with a foreword by Colin Hill of Chillswim and Sally Minty-Gravett MBE that includes Elaine Howley’s dramatic swim in the ice
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Courtesy of Marathon Swimmers Federation, Lake Champlain, California. Andrew Malinak won the 2017 Streeter Award for Service to Marathon Swimming by the Marathon Swimmers Federation for co-founding and leading the Northwest Open Water Swimming Association and for piloting Sarah Thomas’ Century Swim in Lake Champlain in August 2017. Malinak joined the following recipients of the
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Courtesy of Marathon Swimmers Federation, Lake Champlain, New York. It has been an incredible year for American marathon swimmer Sarah Thomas of Colorado. Not only did she complete a 40 km double circumnavigation of Mercer Island in Washington, won the women’s division at the 17 km Portland Bridge Swim in Oregon, and finished 6th overall
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Courtesy of Marathon Swimmers Federation. 42-year-old Abigail Fairman has enjoyed all kinds of experiences throughout the Americas during 2017. Among her many marathon swims, she completed all 4 stages of the 4-day 66.9 km S.C.A.R. Swim Challenge, all 7 stages of the 193 km 8 Bridges Hudson River Swim, 25 km Kingdom Swim Border Buster,
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Courtesy of Marathon Swimmers Federation, 8 Bridges Hudson River Swim, New York. Stephen Rouch has enjoyed all kinds of experiences throughout the United States in 2017. Among his many marathon swims, he completed all 4 stages of the 4-day 66.9 km S.C.A.R. Swim Challenge, all 7 stages of the 193 km 8 Bridges Hudson River
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Courtesy of Marathon Swimmers Federation, Lago Maggiore, Italy. Jaimie Monahan is always doing the extreme whether it is ice swims in Russia, becoming an Ice Ironwoman and Ice Zero Swimmer, mid-winter workouts with the Coney Island Brighton Beach Open Water Swimmers Club in Brooklyn, winter swimming competitions in Windermere, marathon swimming twice around Manhattan Island,
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