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The Legacy Of 43 Is Being Chased Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Chloë McCardel recently completed her 17th English Channel crossing. At the young age of 31 years old, she will soon surpass Canada’s Cindy Nicholas who retired with 19 English Channel crossings. “Go back 5 years and I suspect that NOBODY would have […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Samir Barel of Brazil is preparing for his 33.7 km Catalina Channel crossing tonight, the last stage of his Tríplice Coroa (Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming). Among his support team are two FINA Open Water Swimming Grand Prix champions, a husband-and-wife team of Damián Blaum and Esther Nuñez,
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Courtesy of Clara Rabat, MARNATON eDreams, Barcelona, Spain. The tramontane wind brings swimmers closer to Cadaqués in the MARNATON eDreams series. Due to the strength and direction of the tramontane, Plan B was activated and the swim course was changed to ensure the safety of the swimmers. “Thanks to the new routes, swimmers were able
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Melodee Nugent is a mild-mannered statistician by day and a renowned marathon swimmer by early morning. Nugent works in the Department of Pediatrics at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee and gets up every morning at 2:45 am to get in her swimming. She has completed dozens and dozens of open water swims from
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Courtesy of Bruckner Chase, Strait of Messina between Sicily and the Italian mainland. British billionaire Sir Richard Branson and popular American actor Adrian Grenier were among the successful athletes in a 3.2 km Strait of Messina crossing today. After recovering from a head-first, high-speed cycling crash on the British Virgin Islands, Branson and Grenier attracted
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Michael Read of the Channel Swimming Association said of Brenda Fisher, “[An English] Channel swim is and always will be a battle of one small, lone swimmer against the savage vastness of the open sea. Brenda’s name was on every tongue and she was the toast not only of
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Courtesy of Swim Serpentine, Serpentine, England. The conditions were perfect for Swim Serpentine, a mass-participation swim held in Serpentine in London. Great British Olympic open water swimming star Jack Burnell was the guest starter for 13 waves of swimmers under way in front of a packed crowd of swimmers and spectators. Temperatures in the water
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Courtesy of Benguela Cove Lagoon Swim in the stunning Bot River lagoon. The 800m, 1600m or 4800m races are another swim in a series that includes the 5 km Atlantic Dash from Clifton 4th Beach to 3 Anchor Bay in Cape Town, Shipwrecked Seli 1 to Big Bay Swim from a beach in Bloubergstrand, around
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Courtesy of Ben Hooper, Atlantic Ocean. After three years of planning, training, preparing and fundraising, 38-year-old Ben Hooper will leave his native United Kingdom this Wednesday to begin the Swim The Big Blue. “We are aiming for a November 2nd start in Dakar [at the] latest.” The Daily News of Open Water Swimming will post
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Courtesy of Swim Serpentine, Serpentine, England. The inaugural 2016 Swim Serpentine concluded in style today with an action-packed British Open Water Swimming Championships. The day got off to a damp start but the sunshine soon emerged, taking the water temperature to over 17°C. The calm and clear conditions provided swimmers with the perfect environment for
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