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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Two-time Olympic marathon swimmer Yasunari Hirai expresses himself after winning his fifth Japanese title at the 92nd annual Japanese Swimming Championships held in the 2020 Tokyo Olympic venue in Odaiba Marine Park in Tokyo Bay. Copyright © 2016 by World Open Water Swimming Association
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Hirai Wins Fifth Japanese Title In 2020 Olympic Venue Courtesy of WOWSA, Odaiba Marine Park, Tokyo Bay, Japan. Four years from now, we will know the 2020 Tokyo Olympic medalists in the 10 km marathon swim. They will compete at the Odaiba Marine Park in Tokyo Bay. On September 25th, Yasunari Hirai won another Japanese
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. We love it when Olympic athletes and elite pool swimmers profess and demonstrate their love for the open water. It does not matter if their interest is sailing (Ky Hurst of Australia), ocean swimming (Rebecca Soni of the USA), event management (Sandy Neilson-Bell of the USA), learn-to-swim teaching (Shane
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Sarah Thomas has now entered rarified air in the open water community. She has been swimming for 25 hours 43 minutes (as of this posting) and covered 68.2 km (42.3 miles) at a 2.7 km per hour pace. She is already well over halfway to her goal of swimming
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. 60 of the world’s greatest distance and sprint swimmers raced in the 15.5°C (60°F) waters of Lake Ontario at the 9th annual World’s Champion Swim Marathon held at the Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto, Canada on September 1st 1936. Francis ‘Frank] Pritchard, an Honour Swimmer inducted in the International
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Courtesy of Ger Kennedy, Petrified Forest 6 km Open Sea Swim, East Coast of Ireland Open Water. East Coast of Ireland Open Water Swimming was formed to share its passion of its open water swimmers with athletes of a wide variety, from wetsuiters to those who swim in skins. Its most recent and newest event
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Chris Morgan, a 2008 Olympic swimming coach, teaches his athletes about KAATSU training on dryland and KAATSU Aqua in the water including swimmers from Olympic swimming medalists and Olympic Trials finalists to masters swimmers (24- 75 years), competitive age group swimmers and collegiate swimmers. KAATSU Aqua is beneficial for
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Courtesy of Sarah Thomas, Lake Powell on the Arizona-Utah border. Sarah Thomas of Colorado started right on schedule and is swimming 81.8 miles (131.6 km) over the next 50-64 hours in Lake Powell. “The water temperature report was 68°F (20°C). The cold front cooled things off quite a bit,” said Thomas before the start. Her
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Courtesy of Sarah Thomas, Lake Powell on the Arizona- Utah border. Sarah Thomas of Colorado has quite a resume of marathon swims around the world. But if there is a sweet spot in her resume, it is long lake swims including Loch Ness, Lake Tahoe, and Lake Memphremagog. She has another major lake swim planned
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