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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Sabrina Wiedmer has been ramping up her swimming and really came into her own during 2016. Early in the year during winter, she tied the existing women’s world record in the 1 km ice swim with a 13 minute 58 second effort in January in Wild Water Armagh in […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Ingemar Patiño Macarine, nicknamed the Pinoy Aquaman, had quite a year in 2016. The Filipino attorney not only pioneered five unprecedented channel swims during the year, but received much national recognition for his ocean advocacy efforts. January 17th: He became the first person to cross from Sumilom Island to
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. After leaving his native England in late September and after three years of planning, training, preparing and fundraising, 38-year-old Ben Hooper is nearing his starting point in Dakar in order to begin the Swim The Big Blue. Hooper is aiming to stage swim across the Atlantic Ocean from Africa
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Primal Endurance and Breakthrough Triathlon Training author Brad Kearns was interviewed by Kevin Koskella for 50 minutes by on the Global Swimming Summit that is produced by Chris Ritter of Ritter Sports Performance. He spoke about the nuances of swimming from the perspective of triathletes and masters swimmers that
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Kevin Koskella interviewed Alex Kostich on the Global Swimming Summit. “I am just getting started and I am 46 years old and hope to have another 46 years left in me. I found a new lease on life when I found open water swimming and received a renewed spirit
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. After squeezing in her record-setting eighth crossing of the season in English Channel in 10 hours 29 minutes, Reg Brickell Jr. hustled Chloë McCardel back from France to England with her husband Paul McQueeney. They soon whisked off to the airport in order to catch their next flight to
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. At the 2016 British Swimming Coaches Association Conference last weekend, the Youth Coach of the Year award was presented to former professional marathon swimmer Alan Bircher. Bircher, who is currently coaching at Ellesmere College and a FINIS Coach Ambassador, is shown with his wife Stefanie Bircher née Biller and
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