Tough Year, Strong Currents, Family Finishes Roughwater
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Listen To The Voice That Speaks Softly
Courtesy of Jamie Tout who has completed numerous marathon swims and the Triple Crown of Endurance Sports. 63-year-old Jamie Tout and his wife were watching a movie recently. The actor, playing the role of a sports psychologist, said that Sandy Koufax, the great American Hall of Fame baseball pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers, knew
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Swimming, Racing, Relaying In Turkey’s İçmeler Bay
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The International Aquamasters Marti Hotels Open Water Swimming Championships (or the International Arena Aquamasters Swimming Championship) includes 4 separate events held in October in İçmeler Bay in Marmaris, Turkey. The festivities and events start at the Marti Resort De Lux Hotel in İçmeler, Marmaris on the Datcha Peninsula. The
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Like Father, Like Daughter At Waikiki Roughwater Swim
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Before and after photos of 10-year-old Reina Lileikis and her father Joe Lileikis at today’s Waikiki Roughwater Swim. The 10-year-old made her 2.4-mile ocean swim debut, swimming side-by-side with her father, a two-time Waikiki Roughwater Swim champion in 1981 and 1982 when he was a college freshman and sophomore
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Olga Kozydub Wins 2016 FINA Grand Prix Title
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. At the start of the 2016 Maratona Del Golfo Capri-Napoli race in the Grotta Azzurra (Blue Cave), 25-year-old Olga Kozydub of Russia knew that she could wrap up her second FINA Open Water Swimming Grand Prix title with a typically solid swim. Kozydub had dominated the season, winning both
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Pilar Geijo Continues Swimming Well From Capri To Napoli
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Pilar Geijo won her second Trofeo Pomilia for being the top female at the 51st edition of Maratona Del Golfo Capri-Napoli for the second time. Pilar’s track record of success at the 36 km sea competition is impressive: 2016 race: First in 6 hours 46 minutes 2015 race: Second
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Evgenij Pop Acev Turns Tables On Damián Blaum
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Evgenij Pop Acev of Macedonia pulled away from defending champion Damián Blaum of Argentina at the end to win Maratona Del Golfo Capri-Napoli. Last year, Blaum out-sprinted Pop Acev at the end to win the 36 km sea swim by 3 seconds, but this year, Pop Acev turned the
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