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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The oldest individuals to have successfully crossed the English Channel include renowned members of the Half Century Club: 1. Otto Thaning (South Africa), 73 years, E/F, 12:52 in 2014 2. Cyril Baldock (Australia), 70 years and 9 months, E/F, 12:45 in 2014 3. Roger Allsopp (England), 70 years and […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The San Jose-Santa Clara, California, area topped the 2015 #1 city Ann Arbor, Michigan as America’s Top Swim City in a study commissioned by USA Swimming and Speedo USA. The land of channel swimmers, Bridgeport-Stamford-Norwalk in Connecticut won its first bronze medal in the study. 2016 Top 10 Swim
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Courtesy of University of Kansas, Lone Star Lake, Kansas. University of Kansas will host 72 athletes at the inaugural College Swimming Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) National Collegiate Open Water Championship at Lone Star Lake outside Lawrence this coming Saturday. The 38 women and 34 men will race 5 km where teams of three athletes
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Courtesy of Jacqueline Savitz, Vice President, United States & Global Fishing Watch, Oceana. Our oceans have the potential to provide an abundance of food for our growing population. However, each day, that potential is compromised by overfishing and illegal fishing, which has always occurred far beyond the horizon and mostly out of sight…until now. Starting
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Elizabeth Fry trailblazed another channel to add another notch in her illustrious International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame career. Fry, a 57-year-old financial services expert from New York, took off from the eastern peninsula of Honshu, the main island of Japan, and landed in Toi on the southern cape
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Japanese fishermen and escort boat crews often fly a flag that says 遠泳中 when a swimmer is swimming alongside their boat. The three-character word is pronounced “en-ei-chu“. The three characters, in order from top to bottom, mean in English “distance” (or long or far), “swimming”, and “in the middle”
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. James Savage, who was the youngest swimmer to complete a round-trip Alcatraz Island swim, admitted that the recent RCP Tiburon Mile was his most difficult open water race to date…by far. But he loved it. Absolutely loved it. “James is always up for a challenge,” said his mother Jillian
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Courtesy of Gerry Rodrigues, Tower 26, Santa Monica. Tower 26‘s Be Race Ready podcast episode #16 on tapering has been posted by Coach Gerry Rodrigues and host Jim Lubinski. With listeners from 112 countries tuning in, Coach Rodrigues and professional athlete Lubinski have certainly gone global. “In episode #16, Jim and I discuss tapering for
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. On the 29th of August two groups of tandem swimmers from East London crossed the Strait of Gibraltar from Spain to Morocco. In the first group, Paul Spurway, Nathan Meadows, Juliette Bigley and Mark Redgrave took off after waiting for a week for the wind to decrease. “Even though
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