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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. USA Swimming has held its national open water swimming championships all over: from the West Coast (Seal Beach and Newport Beach) to the Midwest (Indianapolis) to the East Coast (Fort Lauderdale). But one constant remains in the championships: the passion of the local organizers. The same will continue at […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Pauline Barker is hosting the next Ice Cup and Great Britain’s Ice Swimming Championships 2017 to be held in The Cruin in Loch Lomond, Scotland. Organiser Pauline Barker describes the event, “100 hardened swimmers will compete in Loch Lomond to compete for the title Great Britain Ice Swimming Champion.
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Courtesy of NHK, Fukui Prefecture in Honshu, Japan. In a long-running tradition over 400 years, men in Fukui Prefecture’s Mihama-cho annually jump into the inlet of Wakasa Bay in mid-January in the midst of cold water and cold air (usually around 0°C) blowing in from the Sea of Japan. The men jump in the water
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. “The day came and went, 14 hours 27 minutes for my fourth Catalina swim,” said Antonio Argüelles Díaz-González who did an extraordinarily rare Catalina Channel crossing in the middle of the California winter. Argüelles made the crossing specifically as a tough training swim for his upcoming Oceans Seven challenges
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2017 Global Open Water Swimming Conference In Tunisia Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The first Global Iron Swim in Tunisia will be held with the 2017 Global Open Water Swimming Conference and the WOWSA Awards this September at the coastal Bizerte Resort Hotel in Tunisia. Majdouline Cherni, Minister of Youth and Sports of Tunisia,
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Throughout the latter half of 20th century, the sport of open water swimming used to be referred to by many different terms: marathon swimming, long distance swimming, ultra long distance swimming, channel swimming, rough water swimming, ocean swimming, professional marathon swimming, or lake swimming. But open water swimming or
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Matías Ola organized another winter swimming event in his native Argentina. This time in early December called the Winter Swimming Ski Portillo Chile, a high-altitude swim of 3,000 meters (9,842 feet) in altitude in the Andes Mountains. For more information, visit www.swimargentina.org. For more photos, visit here. Copyright ©
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