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Courtesy of Lexie Kelly, aQuellé Midmar Mile, Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Arguably, the most competitive, most highly anticipated open water race of the year will occur this Sunday at the Midmar Dam in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. The 2016 Olympic champion Ferry Weertman from the Netherlands will face his long-time rival from South Africa Chad Ho […]
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Courtesy of Bruckner Chase, Blue Journey Poland. Bruckner Chase is taking his Blue Journey from American Samoa and Australia to New Jersey and, most recently, Poland. While he has created programs for ocean swimming and ocean advocacy in the South Pacific, he is also bringing the concept of enabling disabled individuals to find their niche
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. 21-year-old Nicolás Segurado qualified to compete in the 57 km Maratón Acuática Internacional Santa Fe – Coronda for the first time in his native Argentina. “I fulfilled my goal that I set and I was able to complete the course [in 9 hours 26 minutes in 11th place]. The
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Norway Ice Swimming Expedition Courtesy of Ger Kennedy, Mikkelvik Brygge (70° 3′ 12.312” N 19° 1′ 55.2396” E ), Norway. Photo courtesy of Siobhan Russell. In addition to leading and organizing, Antarctica 2020, Ger Kennedy is leading and organizing an upcoming Ice Swimming Expedition in northern Norway in Mikkelvik Brygge in early March. “It is
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Courtesy of Madswimmer, South Africa. Madswimmer explained what they did in 2016, a year “full of exciting swims, mad challenges and some great opportunities for us all to assist the very worthy charities we have selected. As you may know, we ended last year with an amazing R1,500,000 raised for our charities – this year,
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Courtesy of Nuala Moore, Beagle Channel, Chile-Argentina. Santiago Gutiérrez completed a 1.7 km swim between Cabo Peñas (Chile) and Puerto Almanza (Argentina) across the Beagle Channel. No neoprene. No problem. After a car accident in 2012, the native from Córdoba, Argentina lost use of his legs. That signaled the beginning – or rather the continuation
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Courtesy of FINA, Viedma, Argentina. While Adrianna Bridi comfortably won the 10 km La Patagones Viedma, the first race in the 2017 FINA/HOSA 10K Marathon Swimming World Cup series, the race for second was literally too close to call. Rachele Bruni (silver medalist at the 2016 Rio Olympic 10K Marathon Swim) and Poliana Okimoto Cintra
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Gilles Rondy has enjoyed quite a career in the open water. In 2004, he crossed the English Channel in a quick 7 hour 54 minutes. He later won the 2006 European Championships in Budapest in the 25 km marathon and then qualified in the Olympic 10K Marathon Swim at
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. With Merle Liivand, an Estonian pool and open water swimmer, and Alexander Studzinski, a long-time professional marathon swimmer, modeling the colorful swimwear of Deutscher Schwimmverband, FINIS announced it became a sponsor of the DSV (German Swimming Federation). “I am extremely excited about our partnership with DSV,” said FINIS CEO
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Article courtesy of Bonnie Tsui for the New York Times. Photo shot at the Ala Moana Beach on the south coast of Oahu, courtesy of Marco Garcia. Years ago, a close friend and I cemented a friendship that began in college by splashing our way around Hawaii, on his home island, Oahu … read the
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