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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Dean Summers lays it all on the line – and on paper. After completing the English Channel in 2015 (13 hours 19 minutes at the age of 55), he completed a crossing of the Catalina Channel the next year (in 11 hours 29 minutes), and then knocked off a […]
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Toshio Tominaga is a 73-year-old Japanese open water swimmer who will soon attempt to swim across the Tsugaru Channel in Japan. If Tominaga is successful in swimming from Honshu to Hokkaido in northern Japan, he will enter the annals of channel swimming as one of the oldest athletes ever to successfully complete a channel challenge.
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Alick Wickham, Surfer And Swimmer Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Alick Wickham was truly an aquatic innovator and pioneer as an open water freestyler, a body surfer promoter, a world-record high diver, and a surfer shaper. Wickham was from Roviana Lagoon in the Solomon Islands abd was credited with shaping the first surfboard in
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. One of the first national open water swimming championships held in the United States may have been held in 1925. The course stretched from the Chain Bridge to Georgetown in the Potomac River near Washington D.C., although races in other parts of the United States, such as the La
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January 24th 1915 Oakland Tribune Sun, courtesy of International Swimming Hall of Fame, Florida. Bruce Wigo of the International Swimming Hall of Fame lays out an overview of historical cartoons that showcased some of the greatest swimmers in the world including Duke Kahanamoku, the first swimmer inducted in the International Swimming Hall of Fame. Other
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Results courtesy of www.zeitnehmung.at, Veitsbronn, Germany. It was a busy final day for German host, icon and organizer Christof Wandratsch. The 51-year-old teacher, coach and world-class competitor kept busy with the fourth fastest 50m butterfly and the second fastest 500m freestyle in 3.8°C water and 6°C air at the 2018 Ice Swimming Aqua Sphere German
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Results courtesy of www.zeitnehmung.at, Veitsbronn, Bavaria, Germany. Alway an exciting, entertaining and competitive event, the 4-person 200m freestyle relay pitted the top German, Polish, British teams against one another at the 2018 Ice Swimming Aqua Sphere German Open in the famed venue in Veitsbronn, Bavaria, Germany. 4x50m Relay Results 1 KeepFrozen! e.V. Team AquaSphere (Germany)
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