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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. In the second half of Penny Palfrey‘s 109 km (68-mile) swim from Little Cayman to Grand Cayman that took 40 hours 41 minutes in 2011, a helicopter delivered a tub of chocolate ice cream to her escort boat, the Carib Princess. The cold chocolate ice cream was a welcomed […]
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Photo courtesy of Phil White, Kingdom Games, Vermont. American swimmer Craig Dietz will return to participate in the aQuellé Midmar Mile in Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa once again. The Limbless Waterman was a guest swimmer in the past, but this year, the 42-year-old is stepping up his game. “I’ll be swimming all 8 miles for
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Courtesy of Global Marathon Swimming Awards of the Marathon Swimmers Federation. Dan Simonelli spends a lot of time on shorelines, escort boats, kayaks as well as on pool decks and swimming himself either on solo swims or relays. And he answers a lot of phone calls, texts and emails from swimmers around the world –
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Jaimie Monahan just returned home to New York City from another one of her many international competitions in time to hear about the Marathon Swimmers Federation honoring her with its Barra Award for Best Overall Year. The Barra Award for Best Overall Year is named after David Barra and
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Burghausen, Germany. One of the most enjoyable aspects at the 2017 Ice Swimming Aqua Sphere World Championships in Burghausen, Germany, was the music and race commentary that was being constantly offered during the competition. The music ranged from solemn, slow beats when the swimmers were walking on deck before their races to
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Courtesy of Gran Fondo Italia. Gran Fondo Italia now offers an English website here. The 2017 Gran Fondo Italia (or Circuit Gran Fondo Italia) is an open water swim series in Italy organized by Alessandro Pilati of Swimming in Open Water (NAL) with other Italian organizers that includes: * June 25th: 17 km Gran Fondo
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Together with Jeff Miller of the Virgin Islands and Greg O’Connor of Massachusetts, New Yorker Lori King was nominated for the 2016 Yudovin Award for Most Adventurous Swim. King, who replicated a circumnavigation first done 40 years ago, took 21 hours 19 minutes to complete a 36.5-mile circumnavigation swim
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Together with New York volunteer Roy Malinak and British swimmer, mentor, crew and pilot Samantha Jones, the members of the New York Open Water (David Barra, Rondi Davies, and Alex Arévalo) were nominated for the 2016 Streeter Award for Service to Marathon Swimming. The trio of the New York
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Burghausen, Germany. Ines Hahn [shown on left] tried her hand on the professional marathon swimming circuit, competing from Cancun, Mexico to Quebec, Canada. But the 25-year-old from Germany has really found her niche in ice swimming; the cold is clearly her realm of expertise. She was non-stop at the 2017 Ice Swimming
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