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Courtesy of WOWSA, English Channel. Chloë McCardel is undergoing her final preparations for an unprecedented four-way crossing of the English Channel (history’s first solo quadruple Channel crossing). If there is anyone who could do it in the contemporary swimming world, it is the 32-year-old McCardel who already has a career total of 21 English Channel […]
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Courtesy of Elaine Howley, Lake Champlain, New York-Vermont. A few days after Caroline Block attempted a two-way crossing of the North Channel, fighting gallantly for 28 hours 55 minutes, and the same day that Chloë McCardel announced her four-way 136 km English Channel crossing between August 29th and September 2nd, Sarah Thomas walked into calm
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Chloë McCardel is about to attempt the unthinkable. She has done one-way crossings of the English Channel. She has done two-way crossings of the English Channel. She has done a three-way crossing of the English Channel. And now she will attempt a four-way crossing. A successful non-stop four-way crossing
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Courtesy of Elaine Howley, Boston Light Swim, Massachusetts. 24-year-old Katelyn Kidney won her first major race at the 8-mile Boston Light Swim. Race director Elaine Howley said, “For the second year in a row, we had a 100% completion rate. We had about the best conditions we’ve ever had out there: flat calm, almost no
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Courtesy of André Wiersig, Catalina Channel, California. “Finishing an open ocean channel swim for me is very different than finishing an Ironman triathlon or a marathon run,” says German endurance athlete André Wiersig who has done marathon runs, Hawaiian Ironman triathlons and four Oceans Seven channels. “I always feel deep gratitude for the ocean. All
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Oceans Seven Featured As #1 Extreme Adventure Courtesy of The Weather Channel on the Oceans Seven. Darren Miller, one of the seven aquatic adventurers, was featured on The Weather Channel’s Top Ten: Extreme Adventures that was broadcast on August 6th throughout America. Miller was the first individual to go 7-for-7 on the Oceans Seven (i.e.,
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Embrace The Challenge: Erie Crossing is a 20 km cross border swim for solo swimmers and relays across Lake Erie between Canada and the USA. Organized as a joint venture between Embrace Open Water Swimming and North Shore Swimmers and run by Miguel Vadillo [shown above] and Joshua Reid,
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Simon Holliday has a deep and profound interest in human motivation and resilience. His drive is both for himself and for others. He has completed a 15 hour 2 minute crossing of the English Channel in 2011 as well as a 35 km, 10 hour 20 minute swim across
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Courtesy of Oliver Halder, Bodenseequerung, Germany. Sven Eckardt is a 47-year-old German swimmer from Gärtringen whose nickname is Dr. Svimmm. After years of success in pool swimming as a disabled swimmer, the handicapped paraplegic with cerebral paralysis on his legs wants to achieve a lifelong dream. He will attempt a 12 km widthwise 12 km
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Courtesy of Track.RS, North Channel between Northern Ireland and Scotland. Epic is often used in channel swims and marathon swims. Sometimes, the epicity is measured in how fast a swimmer crosses a channel (e.g., Trent Grimsey across the English Channel), how early a swimmer crosses a channel (e.g., Keo Nakama across the Molokai Channel in
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