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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. For the 47th consecutive year dating back to 1970, some of the world’s top swimmers will unite in Honolulu, Hawaii to partake in the Waikiki Roughwater Swim, one of America’s most iconic and influential open water swims. Not only have numerous Olympians and celebrities participated in the 2.384-mile (3.84 […]
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Images courtesy of NBCOlympics.com on Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro. Ferry Weertman won the most dramatic race possible on Copacabana Beach as he led a chase pack to catch Australia’s Jarrod Poort on the last lap of the Olympic 10K Marathon Swim this afternoon in Rio de Janeiro. Poort led by as much as
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Images courtesy of NBCOlympics.com, Copacabana Beach, Rio de Janeiro. FINA and Olympic open water swims start either in the water behind a rope or on a floating pontoon where the athletes dive into the water. Perhaps because we grew up in Southern California where ocean swimming races start and finish on white sand beaches and
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Courtesy of New England LMSC Board of Directors, Cambridge Masters, and the Boston Light Swim. One of the relay teams in this weekend’s Boston Light Swim is Crankin’ for Frank that includes Kate Radville, Sheryl Bierden, and Amy Whitesides. This relay is named in honor of their fallen masters swimming teammate Frank Wuest who passed
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Courtesy of Elaine Howley, Boston Light Swim. Swimmers have traveled from as far away as South Africa and Australia to take part in this year’s Boston Light Swim, an annual 8-mile open water swim across Boston Harbor held on August 20th. Dubbed the Granddaddy of American Open Water Swims, the Boston Light Swim is one
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. This summer has seen a number world record attempts and claims in the open water. In late July, 39-year-old American triathlete Adam Ellenstein from Detroit claimed a Guinness World Record for the fastest non-stop lengthwise open water swim (VictorySwim105). Swimming World Magazine and CBC News reported that Ellenstein established
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Dashing British billionaire Richard Branson and popular American actor Adrian Grenier will attempt to cross the 3.2 km Strait of Messina in a charity tandem swim. Branson, visionary behind the Virgin brand, and Grenier, an actor best known for Entourage and The Devil Wears Prada, will attempt the crossing
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Goggles historically became the norm in open water swimming much earlier than goggles became widespread in the competitive pool swimming world. While channel swimmers and ocean swimmers had long used all different types of goggles, it was only in the mid-1950s that Adolph Kiefer invented the modern, soft-gasket swim
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The United Nations has given Lewis Pugh, its official its Patron of the Oceans, access to five world-class translators. This collaborative effort will significantly help Pugh effectively communicate his information around the world. “Now my blogs will be going out in the six official United Nation languages: English Arabic,
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Images courtesy of NBCOlympics.com, Copacabana Beach, Rio de Janeiro. American open water swimmers told Stacy St. Clair of the Chicago Tribune that he didn’t notice anything wrong with the water in Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro despite repeated statements outlining fears of pollution and warnings of sewage by a number of American coaches, researchers
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