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World Open Water Swimming Federation, a human-powered project
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. When Lorie Hirson moved to San Francisco in 2000, she wanted to swim from Alcatraz to the San Francisco shoreline. But she never attempted it until her husband Ron completed his first swim from Alcatraz. But with retinitis pigmentosa and a gradually decreasing vision, it took her ten years […]
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Fran Crippen: April 17th 1984 – October 23th 2010 Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. A gentlemen. A hero. An inspiration. Fran Crippen left behind a lasting legacy. Not only as a world-class swimmer, but as someone you would be proud to have as a son, brother, teammate, neighbor and friend. Fran was always there
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. 27-year-old Calum Hudson, 24-year-old Jack Hudson, and 29-year-old Robbie Hudson are adventure-seeking, adrenaline junkies who pursue creative aquatic challenges in risk-taking beautiful locations. This year, the Hudson Brothers tackled their most jaw-dropping swimming challenges to date – traversing the world’s largest and most dangerous whirlpools. They started off with
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Courtesy of Paul Anstiss, Endurance Research Group, University of Kent. Paul Anstiss is a Sport Psychology Ph.D. researcher at the University of Kent in the United Kingdom who is part of the Endurance Research Group. The focus of Anstiss’ research is to investigate psychological factors such as self-belief and confidence in endurance sport with a
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Most open water swimmers have a bucket list of swims they want to do. Their swims can be a channel crossing or an unprecedented lake swim or an ice mile. Whether it was a competitive swimmer of the 1970s or nowadays with a contemporary masters swimmer, Conrad Wennerberg‘s authoritative
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Robert Cossette and Christine Cossette of Canada are the only father-daughter duo who has been inducted in the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame. Interestingly, Christine-the-daughter (1982) was inducted before Robert-the-father (2004). In 1984, the 22-year-old Christine delighted her fellow Québécois when she became the first person to complete
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. On October 3rd, 31-year-old Tadeusz Golembiewski, 37-year-old Ana Villanueva, 28-year-old Adrian Roszak, and 43-year-old Grzegorz Monczak crossed the Strait of Gibraltar, landing in Punta Cires in Morocco, in a tandem swim of 4 hours 15 minutes. With a light Force 2 westerly swell in 19°C water, the quad of
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. George Duthie was a Canadian open water swimming event director who was inducted in the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame in 1966 as an Honour Administrator. Duthie organized the famous professional Canadian National Exhibition swims until 1968 as the Canadian National Exhibition Manager of Sports Department and was
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Courtesy of Lucky Meisenheimer, Lake Cane, Florida. Gene Augustin holds the 80-84 year age group record for crossing Lake Cane in Orlando, Florida. He is the oldest person to complete 1 km Lucky’s Lake Swim. But he just broke his own record and set the 85-89 age group lake swim record with a time of
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Courtesy of Ger Kennedy and Bolot Bochkarev, Yakutsk, Russia. Yakutsk in the Sakha Republic, Russia, located about 450 km south of the Arctic Circle, was the site of Irish ice swimmer Ger Kennedy‘s most hardy and risk-taking open water adventure. After his ice mile and other ice swimming endeavors performed on the surface of the
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