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World Open Water Swimming Federation, a human-powered project
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Michele Daschbach Fast was an American swimmer who grew up in Atherton, California. The youngest of six children and the University of California Santa Barbara graduate met her husband Patrick in college and raised their three children in Seal Beach. She swam every morning in Seal Beach, genuinely touching […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. In general, there are few sports where its athletes and enthusiasts know as much about water as open water swimmers. But that does not necessarily mean that open water swimmers are properly hydrated while training or on dryland. There is a wearable solution to monitoring one’s hydration levels. Kit
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Otto Kemmerich, Unassisted, Unafraid, Unprecedented Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Otto Kemmerich, born in 1886, was an outstanding pool and open water swimmer from Germany who was inducted in the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame in 1968 as an Honor Swimmer. A member of the German Olympic swim team, he was one of
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Photo of Sarah Thomas courtesy of Andrew Malinak on Lake Powell, Arizona-Utah border. Sarah Thomas‘s recent 81.8 mile (131.6 km) solo swim on Lake Powell has been described as iconic and inspirational, epic and intrepid. “While distance is the one parameter that the media and the swimming community has focused on, and rightly so, I
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Photos courtesy of Elias Lefas, video courtesy of by Aeromotion & Thanks Rivios Photography on Santorini Island, Greece. The Santorini Experience open water swimming event covered by a drone in Greece. The event included a 1.5 km swim with 1 km + 5 km + 10 km + 15 km runs held on Santorini Island
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Courtesy of Chris Lechner, Lake Michigan. Dr. Chris Lechner is a 56-year-old American hand surgeon, standup paddler and open water swimmer from Asheville, North Carolina. He has paddled solo 277 miles (446 km) along the French Broad River in North Carolina and attempted a solo, non-escorted 80-mile (128.7 km) open water swim across Lake Michigan
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Courtesy of Jef Mallett, Frazz. Jef Mallett, creator of Frazz, described his tattoo: “That’s Ernest Shackleton‘s ship Endurance, icebound and soon to be crushed just off the coast of Antarctica in 1915. More than a 1.5 years later – a year and a half including drifting on ice floes, an 800-mile lifeboat journey across the
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The International Aquamasters Marti Hotels Open Water Swimming Championships (or the International Arena Aquamasters Swimming Championship) were held in İçmeler Bay in Marmaris, Turkey. The event includes 4 races on the Datcha Peninsula. Adam Walker has made the journey from the U.K. to Turkey for the last three years.
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Videos courtesy of Colin Hill at the FINA/HOSA 10K Marathon Swimming World Cup in Chun’an, China.. Video of the men’s and women’s races from the FINA/HOSA 10K Marathon Swimming World Cup professional marathon swim in Chun’an, China is courtesy of FINA Delegate Colin Hill. Video below shows the amateur mass participation race that is also
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