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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Estonia’s Merle Liivand attempted to qualify for the Olympic 10K Marathon Swim to compete in Rio de Janeiro, but she found her way to Rio nevertheless. After running a successful Mermaid-Motivation Clinic held in Rio during the Olympics, Liivand competed in Florida’s Swim Miami. For the second year in […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. “Life is like a wave. You cannot change how it breaks, only how you ride it,” said the 21-year-old Ryan Alea Young before her passing in a car accident in 2009. The Pier-2-Pier Race is a 2-mile point-to-point ocean swim in Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina held in memory of
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Imagine swimming every single day for over 27 years. That is exactly what swimmer, coach, author and sports psychologist Dr. Keith Bell has done over the past three decades. At 8:00 am on September 3rd, the 68-year-old from Austin, Texas will swim 10,000 yards to commemorate his 10,000th consecutive
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. British billionaire Richard Branson is planning to attempt a charity tandem swim together with popular American actor Adrian Grenier across the 3.2 km Strait of Messina in Italy in late September. But Branson’s preparation may be now in question due to a head-first, high-speed cycling crash on the British
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The Flathead Lake Swim Series consists of a 5 km swim on Friday night, a 10 km Flathead Lake Swim on Saturday morning, a 0.5-mile and a 1-mile swim held on Sunday morning in July at the Big Arm State Park in Montana. Neoprene and bioprene competitors participated in
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The Great Moose Migration is a 17.7 km marathon swim from Arrow Rock Dam to Lucky Peak Dam in Idaho (Dam2Dam). The race, founded by Oscar ‘Moosie’ Williamson, is now in its fifth year. Anna Megale and Brigitta Gruenberg went 1-2 in the 11-mile swim with Tommy Schwartz finishing
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Nick Thomas, a 45-year-old British swimmer from Ellesmere in Shropshire, completed an English Channel crossing in 2014 with a wetsuit as part of the Enduroman Arch to Arc triathlon between London and Paris. Today, he was pulled unconscious from the Channel today less than a mile from his intended
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Courtesy of Phil White of the Northeast Kingdom Open Water Swimming Association, Caspian Lake, Vermont. Fighting off strong winds and big waves, 12-year-old Vera Rivard of Springfield, New Hampshire finished first overall in the Fifth Annual 3-mile Caspian Swim in 1 hour 25 minutes. 12 seconds behind was 63-year-old Bill Pease of Berkeley, California with
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Courtesy of Phil White of the Northeast Kingdom Open Water Swimming Association. At the Seventh Annual Lake Willoughby Swim on August 20th, 37-year-old Steve Hodgins won a quart of maple syrup and a six-pack of day tickets to Burke Mountain Ski Resort for cruising to the fastest time of the 5-mile race in 1 hour
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