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Photo of Britta Kamrau courtesy of Heiner Köpcke. FINA announced the athletes on its FINA Athletes Committee for the 2017-2021 term. * Penny Heyns (South Africa) is the Chairperson and has announced at the annual aQuellé Midmar Mile in South Africa several times. * Britta Kamrau (Germany) is the Vice Chairman and was inducted in […]
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Courtesy of Jaimie Monahan, Lac Léman, California. Inaugural LGSA Classic Swim from Switzerland to France After three years of organizing 70 km solo and relay challenges across Lac Léman, Ben Barham, Tim Davies, and Charlie Masding of the Lake Geneva Swim Association (LGSA) launched a new event to close its summer season on the lake
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Courtesy of the Wild Swimming Brothers across the Loch Broom, Scotland. Loch Broom is a sea loch located in northwestern Ross and Cromarty, in the former parish of Lochbroom, on the west coast of Scotland. The small town of Ullapool lies on the eastern shore of the loch. The Wild Swimming Brothers (Jack Hudson, Calum
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Costa Navarino is an unspoiled, breathtaking seaside destination along the Mediterranean Sea, located in the Greek region of Messinia in the southwest Peloponnese. The Navarino Challenge is a 3-day, 17-event competition on October 13th-15th in Costa Navarino and Messinia that includes a 1.6 km swim in the Bay of
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Photo courtesy of Giorgio Scala, Deep Blue Media, Italy. The 36 km professional marathon swimming race from the island of Capri to Napoli on the mainland of Italy has a long history – 51 years in all. But due to this year’s conditions, the 52nd edition was not be started on Capri. Instead, a replacement
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Photo courtesy of Giorgio Scala, Deep Blue Media, Italy. While the men raced in packs with a sprint to the finish at the latest FINA Open Water Swimming Grand Prix race in Italy where the top swimmers were only separated by seconds, the finish at the women’s race at the 52nd Maratona del Golfo Capri-Napoli
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Rarotonga, Cook Islands. Dan Abel does a lot of things, but he is always doing things for others. His upcoming Round the Rock Swim for Autism, a 34 km charity circumnavigation swim around Rarotonga in the Cook Islands, acknowledged as one of the most beautiful islands in the world. In order to
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Legion of Ocean Heroes Returns To New Jersey Courtesy of Bruckner Chase, Ocean City Swim Club, New Jersey. Legion of Ocean Heroes Surf Lifesaving Festival is an event with ocean lifeguards, open water swimmers, triathletes, paddlers and para-athletes of all ages competing across multiple disciplines of surf lifesaving sports. Race director Bruckner Chase explains, “Para-athletes
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Courtesy of Canah along the Danube River, Germany. Romanian Avram Iancu continues on his stage swim of 2,860 km, forecasted to last 60 days, along the Danube River through Europe. The 41-year-old librarian from Petrosani, Transylvania started his stage swim from Donaueschingen in the Black Forest in Germany. He is now heading into Day 78
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Local speedster Aukai Lileikis placed 8th overall in the uber-competitive Waikiki Roughwater Swim, finishing in 56:09. The 19-year-old out-paced his uncle Thomas Lileikis (58:59) and his 54-year-old father, a two-time winner of the event (1981 and 1982), Joe Lileikis, 99th in 1:13:38, his 32nd career race across Waikiki. It
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