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Courtesy of Luciano Cotena, Maratona del Golfo Capri-Napoli, Italy. Major General Ahmed Zorkani was a major presence in the professional marathon swimming world throughout the 1950’s and 1960’s. His passion is remembered fondly by the few athletes, coaches, trainers, pilots, sponsors, and administrators of that era. The personable Egyptian was inducted in the International Marathon […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. It has always been so in the open water: one generation of swimmers teaches the following generation of open water swimmers. The mentors range from youngish to older who share their knowledge and passion of the open water with like-minded swimmers. May Looney, shown above giving advice to niece
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Pieter Christian Jongeneel Anderica of Málaga, Spain completed a double circumnavigation swim of Manhattan Island in New York in 20 hours 15 minutes. Jongeneel’s time broke the existing record of American Skip Storch of 20 hours 56 minutes set in 2007 en route to Storch’s triple circumnavigation swim in
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Olympic champion Michael Phelps is renowned for working out extraordinarily hard while eating 12,000+ calories per day. Back in the 1930s, International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame Honour Swimmer Marvin Nelson was the Michael Phelps of his era. After the 1933 Canadian National Exhibition race in Toronto, Canada, reporter
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Much of the information in the Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame and Openwaterpedia on marathon swimmers before the 1980s is based on the work and records of Joe Grossman. Steven Munatones says, “He is a giant in the sport of professional marathon swimming in the 20th century. Joe was
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. 123 lb. Stanislas Raczynski traveled a long way from his native Leudon en Brie in north-central France to Lone Star Lake in Kansas. The freshman freestyler is now studying Computer Information at Emmanuel College in Georgia and soon found himself standing on the shoreline of a lake in the
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Photo of Haley Bishop (left) and Libby Walker (right) courtesy of University of Kansas, Lone Star Lake, Lawrence, Kansas. While the University of Kansas has enjoyed a long successful history in collegiate basketball and track and field, swimming has rarely come to the surface at the institution of over 28,000 students. Over its history in
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Courtesy of Andy Newman of Florida Keys News Bureau, Swim For Alligator Light, Islamorada, Florida. Noah Zhang and Alison Hayden won the 9.2-mile (14.8 km) Swim for Alligator Lighthouse today in Islamorada in the Florida Keys. The marathon swim took soloists and relays (duos and quads) from Islamorada, Florida around the Alligator Lighthouse and back.
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