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Courtesy of Ned Denison, International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame. The International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame (IMSHOF) Induction Ceremony will take place on April 22nd 2017. The stunning venue will be The Chapel, part of the Beaumont Estate in Old Windsor, England. It is close to Heathrow Airport. “For decades, the ceremony was a […]
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Courtesy of Brenton Williams, Marina Mile Swimming Festival, South Africa. 14-year-old Henre Louw from Pretoria was untouchable at the 2016 Marina Mile Swimming Festival at Marina Martinique near Jeffreys Bay in South Africa. He had previously won the shorter events at the Marina Mile, but the young phenom is now coming into his own in
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Courtesy of The Longest Swim by Ben Lecomte between Tokyo and San Francisco. Ben Lecomte will attempt a solo stage swim between Tokyo, Japan and San Francisco, California. He expects to start his transoceanic swim sometime in April 2017 and take at least 6 months of daily swims to work his way across the Pacific
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The Roads Crossed By Régent Lacoursière Photos of Régent Lacoursière with Johnny Weissmuller and Abdul Latif Abou-Heif, Esther Williams, Michael Phelps, Muhammad Ali, and Mark Spitz. Régent “Johnny” Lacoursière is a personable swimmer, passionate coach and creative aquapreneur who was inducted in the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame in 1978 as an Honour Swimmer.
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Taranath Narayan Shenoy is deaf and dumb, but his courage and will power has been clear throughout his career of three English Channel crossings, a Catalina Channel crossing, a Strait of Gibraltar crossing, and a Cook Strait crossing as well as two circumnavigation swims around Manhattan Island and the
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. After the Samsung Bosphorus Cross-Continental Swim (Samsung Boğazıçi Kitalararasi Yarislari) was selected as the 2016 World Open Water Offering of the Year, coordinator Pelin Çelik said of the honor, “After what is going on in Istanbul and Turkey, this is the best news nowadays motivating people like us who
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Photos of Jaimie Monahan courtesy of Arik Thormahlen. The WOWSA Awards are an annual selection of outstanding individuals and offerings in the following categories: World Open Water Swimming Man of the Year, World Open Water Swimming Woman of the Year, World Open Water Swimming Performance of the Year, and World Open Water Swimming Offering of
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The WOWSA Awards are an annual selection of outstanding individuals and offerings in the following categories: World Open Water Swimming Man of the Year, World Open Water Swimming Woman of the Year, World Open Water Swimming Performance of the Year, and World Open
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Sarah Thomas’ Lake Powell Marathon Is 2016 World Open Water Swimming Performance Of The Year Courtesy of Marathon Swimmers Federation, Lake Powell, Arizona-Utah. Course map of Sarah Thomas‘ 80-mile (128.7 km) 56 hour 5 minute solo swim in Lake Powell is courtesy of Marathon Swimmers Federation, Lake Powell, Arizona-Utah. The WOWSA Awards are an annual
Samsung Bosphorus Cross-Continental Swim Is 2016 World Open Water Swimming Offering Of The Year Video courtesy of Türkiye Milli Olimpiyat Komitesi. Information courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The WOWSA Awards are an annual selection of outstanding individuals and offerings in the following categories: World Open Water Swimming Man of the Year, World Open Water