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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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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. “No one has ever tried to go so far, so slowly [across the Pacific Ocean],” said escort pilot James Scott about Benoît Lecomte‘s transoceanic swim known as The Longest Swim. “There are very few ‘firsts’ left in this world, and this six-month unsupported expedition is a rare chance to
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Are Lead Swimmers Negatively Affected By Draftees? Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. A group of competitive open water swimmers got together in Seal Beach, California and had a heated discussion about drafting and swimming in the lead. Parks Wesson, Dr. Lyle Nalli, Mitch Berro, Ted Gover, PhD, Scott Soleau, and Kellyn Carlson posted questions
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Paul Lecomte is the Project Manager of The Longest Swim by his uncle Benoît Lecomte. Arguably, he is responsible for coordinating the largest and longest citizen science project in an open water swim. There will be over 1,000 scientific samples collected to support the work of researchers from 12
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Courtesy of Adam Walker. The more turbulent the conditions become in the open water, the more important a still head position anchored by a firm backbone and firm core become in order be as streamlined as possible in the open water. Adam Walker talks about the importance of a still head in the open water
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Courtesy of Hank Wise, Huntington Beach, California. Hank Wise is planning to do his fifth Catalina Channel crossing in November this year. The Stanford graduate completed his first crossing from Catalina-to-the-mainland in an 8 hour 7 minute crossing in 2010 and was only 34 seconds slower in a mainland-to-Catalina crossing in 8 hours 7 minutes
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Chris Morgan, a 2008 Olympic swimming coach, teaches and advises a number of athletes about KAATSU training on dryland and KAATSU Aqua from Olympic pool and open water swimming medalists and Olympic Trials finalists to masters swimmers (24-75 years), competitive age group swimmers and collegiate swimmers. “KAATSU Aqua is
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Ion Lazarenco Tiron is a global aquatic adventurer. The native Moldavian living in Ireland has not only completed an 8-day 235 km Swimming Marathon Nistru stage swim, but he has also completed an Ice Mile swim in 3.3ºC (37.9ºF) water, an English Channel crossing in 13 hours 34 minutes,
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