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Ambassadors Represent Open Water Swimming at Singapore World Championships

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World Aquatics announced two charismatic personalities as its open water swimming ambassadors at the 2025 World Aquatics Championships to kick off in Singapore on Monday, July 10th. Olympic champion and four-time world champion Sharon van Rouwendaal (31, Netherlands, MSF bio here, World Aquatics bio here, @svrouwendaal) and Olympian and model Alice Dearing (28, Great Britain, […]

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The Doctor Makes A House Call To The Tsugaru Channel

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With Andreas Waschburger (38, Germany, MSF bio here, IISA bio here, @andreaswaschburger) waiting in the wings and Alexandra Rossi Cima (50, Brazil, MSF bio here) coming up later this month, soloists Robert Woodhouse (Australia, 59, MSF bio here) and Gráinne Moss (55, Ireland, MSF bio here) were lining up in Kodomari to make their attempt on the 19.5 km

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When Andreas Waschburger Made An Important Decision in the Tsugaru Channel

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There comes an inflection point in every channel crossing and marathon swim when a swimmer When the water temperature dropped from 23°C to 15°C and the flat water turned angry in the Tsugaru Channel about 12 km from his finish in Hokkaido, Andreas Waschburger (38, Germany, MSF bio here, IISA bio here, @andreaswaschburger) met his

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“It Was The Hardest Swim Of My Life,” Rob Woodhouse Achieves The Oceans Seven

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Rob Woodhouse (Australia, 59, MSF bio here) succeeded at what he described as the “hardest swim of his life.” The shortest straight-line tangent between Honshu and Hokkaido across the Tsugaru Channel  in northern Japan is 19.5 km, but Woodhouse had to endure at least 58.6 km of hard swimming. While the water temperature started at 22°C in Kodomari

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Now It is His Turn: Dr. Tapan Kumar Panigrahi Swimming 81 km

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Dr. Tapan Kumar Panigrahi coached Sayani Das across the 14.4 km Strait of Gibraltar from Spain to Morocco in 3 hours 51 minutes in a tandem swim with Ryan Utsumi to complete her sixth Oceans Seven channel crossing. He has coached many others in the pool and open water over the decades. Now it is his turn. He is ready to go on his

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