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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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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Xin Xin nearly stood on the awards podium at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games 10 km marathon swim [see Copacabana Beach course above] as one of the mostly unknowns in the Olympic final. Her fourth place finish in August now looks like a precursor to what the 20-year-old Chinese
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Courtesy of Madhu Nagaraja and Bryan Finlay, Great Lakes, Canada. Madhu Nagaraja did a 1,600 km road trip between all the Great Lakes in Canada where he and Mauro Campanelli, Loren King, Lynn De Lathouwer Rodgers, Bud Seawright, Hilda Leahy, and Geoff Farrow each swam a mile in each of the Great Lakes- the first
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Steve Walker released a book on marathon swimming, Where The Crazy People Swim: Outrageous goals, failure, and success. “The book took about a year to write, although most of the writing was done a week here and there, with a big push over the last few weeks,” recalled the
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Courtesy of Masayuki Moriya, Ocean Navi, Japan. Honoka Hasegawa (長谷川ほのか in Japanese) is a 18-year-old Japanese open water swimmer who became the youngest person to cross the Tsugaru Channel between Honshu and Hokkaido in Japan in 8 hours 31 minutes in August 2016 in 23°C water. Copyright © 2016 by World Open Water Swimming Association
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The 35th edition of the Maratona del Golfo Capri-Napoli in 1990 has been a signature race for decades. But the 1990 race was a showcase event that pitted 18 swimmers against each other who ultimately became inductees – Honour Swimmers – in the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame.
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Gino Gönenç Kalganoğlu grew up near the sea in the Turkish coastal town of Çanakkale. His multi-cultural and multi-lingual background has now led him to become an American citizen living in another coastal city of New Orleans. Along his way from Çanakkale to New Orleans, Kalganoğlu has produced and
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Ersin Aydin Swimming For The Fatherland Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. “I’ve done it for the Fatherland,” said Ersin Aydin [shown above in pink shirt with Emre Erdogan], a Turkish who swam in a shark cage from Turkey to Cyprus in 43 hours 20 minutes in 1973. According to Sports Illustrated in 1973, Ersin
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