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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. 75-year-old Ellen Shockro admits to swimming slower than in other years, but she is still doing so smoothly and happily. She will be one of the thousands of masters swimmers headed to Budapest, Hungary to participate in the FINA World Masters Championships that will include a 3 km open […]
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Courtesy of Nicolene Steynberg, Madswimmer, KwaZulu Natal Coast, South Africa. The Great Shark Swim along the KwaZulu Natal Coast in South Africa is highly popular as it quickly filled its maximum number of swimmers. Nicolene Steynberg reported that every swimmers has been filled in an attempt to complete the fastest 100 km ocean swim within
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7 Océanos Of Jorge Crivilles Villanueva By José Luis Larrosa Courtesy of José Luis Larrosa, Revista Open Water. José Luis Larrosa wrote about the ongoing Oceans Seven journey by fellow Spaniard Jorge Crivilles Villanueva for Revista Open Water in Spanish here. Copyright © 2008 – 2017 by Tom Morgenstern of Revista Open Water
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Jorge Crivilles Villanueva Triumphs In The Tsugaru Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Jorge Crivilles Villanueva from Alicante, Spain is gradually knocking off all kinds of goals in the open water swimming world: Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming, 24-hour Club, and is en route to the Oceans Seven with four crossings of the English
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Courtesy of Michael Twigg-Smith, Molokai Channel, Hawaii. Sergio Salomone is a hardened 49-year-old open water swimmer from Buenos Aires, Argentina. He has swum all over the world in his 40’s. From ice swims in Murmansk, Russia where he competed in the International Ice Swimming Association (IISA) world championships to crossings of the Strait of Gibraltar
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Moldavian/Irish swimmer Ion Lazarenco Tiron completed his sixth Oceans Seven swim with a Tsugaru Channel crossing from Hokkaido to Honshu. In addition to an 8-day 235 km stage swim in his native Moldova and an Ice Mile in his adopted Ireland in 3.3ºC (37.9ºF) water, he has completed crossings
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Courtesy of Kathy Batts, English Channel. “The original plan was a two way crossing in 2015, but 2 miles off the French coast, we aborted the crossing due to a really bad thunderstorm and lightning storm which led to too dangerous conditions to continue,” said team manager Kathy Batts. “Heartbroken, the team asked [escort pilot]
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Courtesy of Ned Denison, Sandycove Island, Ireland. Catherine Sheridan, an Irish open water swimmer, joined other luminaries of the sport of open water swimming who have given TED Talks around the world: Lynne Cox, Craig Dietz, Kimberley Chambers, Lewis Pugh, Diana Nyad, Maarten van der Weijden, Ori Sela, Vicki Keith, Dr. Peter Attia, Tim Ferriss,
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. German endurance athlete André Wiersig spent time in Southern California in the 1990’s when he was training with elite triathletes in San Diego on his quest to be a competitive Ironman triathlete. He returned last week to California on another quest: the Oceans Seven. Similar to when he was
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Benjamin Freeman does not waste any time. The 16-year-old Australian swimmer [shown on left with race director Doug Woodring] won the 2014 15 km Clean Half Marathon Swim in Hong Kong in the same race his sister Jemma Freeman won the women’s division. The next year at the age
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