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Courtesy of Ben Hooper, Swim The Big Blue, Atlantic Ocean. Ben Hooper‘s transatlantic swim has started. His program between western Africa in Senegal and the eastern coast of Brazil can be followed here at Swim The Big Blue. Day One ended with a 9-mile swim completed over 6 hours 42 minutes. Copyright © 2016 by […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. There are only seven swimmers from Egypt who have been inducted in the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame. But only one is a woman. Shadia Rhageb [standing in the last row, second from right in Canada in 1973] was inducted in the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Sabrina Wiedmer is versatile, living a global aquatic life. In 2013, the 27-year-old Swiss started off her open water swimming career with a 16 km Cork to Cobh Swim in Ireland that took her 3 hours 10 minutes. She still holds the record for the fastest time on this
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Victoria Mori won her first race of the 2016-2017 International Winter Swimming Association season. She won the Czech Cup Blansko in 5°C water with more than 200 winter swimmers. “It was my first competition of winter swimming this year. It was a good way to start the winter season.
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Courtesy of Kathrin Lammers, International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame. Over 40 countries are represented in the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame, but only one of the inductees is from Saudi Arabia. Without a doubt, Alawi Mohammed Makki Al-Ibrahim is one of the most remarkable and prolific open water swimmers in history and the
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Visionaries continue to move things in the State of Oregon in the American Northwest. Portland Bridges Swim founder and director Marisa Frieder described the efforts of the 80 solo and relay swimmers who participated in the Portland Bridge Swim held on July 11th where the 10.7-mile (17.2 km) event
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. “If I reflect upon a marathon swim many years after, I often remember most vividly the ‘bad’ things like how cold the water is, the pain of a jellyfish sting, or the depth of fatigue that I faced,” recalls Steven Munatones. “Decades after those swims, those memories are more
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Courtesy of Kristina Evelyn, Barbados Open Water Festival. After hours of heavy rainfall, the flooded roads around Barbados led to the stopping of public transport. But with the 5th Barbados Open Water Festival scheduled to start, a number of visiting swimmers decided to walk to the Carlisle Bay. Swimmers from 12 countries competed in the
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Courtesy of Rondi Davies, David Barra, Alex Arévalo, and Laura Picardo of New York Open Water. Following in the wake of race directors Drury Gallagher and Tom Hetzel and Morty Berger, the circumnavigation swim around Manhattan Island is in able, experienced and detailed-oriented hands of veterans Rondi Davies, David Barra, Alex Arévalo and Laura Picardo
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The 2017 FINA Masters World Championships will be held in Budapest, Hungary with its open water swimming events held in Balatonfüred between August 10th-12th. 55 years and older will compete in the open water on August 10th while age 40-54 will compete on August 11th, and the 25-39 year
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