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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Episode 1 of the 3-episode short documentary series called Toxic Guanabara was released yesterday. Toxic Guanabara is the story behind the polluted bay that threatens athletes on the 2016 Rio Olympic Games. In Episode 1, biologist and environmental activist Mário Moscatelli shows how his efforts in a project to […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Swimming World Magazine, CBC News and several other media outlets reported that American Adam Ellenstein established a Guinness World Record for the fastest non-stop lengthwise open water swim of a Canadian lake with his VictorySwim105 this week. The 39-year-old triathlete from Detroit, Michigan, completed a 105 km (65-mile) swim
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The Greatest Upset In Olympic Swimming History Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Swimming World Magazine published its Top 9 Olympic Upsets, written by Chuck Warner in its latest pre-Olympic issue. “Beginning with its November 2015 issue and running through July 2016, Swimming World Magazine counted down its top 9 upsets in the individual events
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Two swimmers are going to swim more than anyone else in Rio at the 2016 Olympic Games: Oussama Mellouli (TUN) and Jordan Wilimovsky (USA). Sawrymowicz, Mellouli and Wilimovsky are entered in the 1500m and the 10 km marathon swim. They are all capable of qualifying in the 1500m race;
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. While many people are impressed with Diana Nyad‘s 52 hours 54 minutes swim from Havana, Cuba to Key West, Florida in 2013, we were most inspired by the several dozens of training swims that Nyad completed in order to prepare for her ordeal. Swims over 10 hours, 12 hours,
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. 48-year-old Tita Llorens attempted the first bioprene* 90 km swim from Ibiza to Jávea (Xàbia) on mainland Spain. But, unfortunately, Llorens had to abort the crossing after 17 hours and 45 km due to strong Force 4 and Force 5 winds and large swells. Her escort team decided that
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Carlos Costa is a double-leg amputee and open water swimmer from Canada. The member of the 24-hour Club (45 km swim across Lake Ontario in 1993 in 32 hours 43 minutes) also completed a crossing of the Catalina Channel in November 1993 in 15 hours 3 minutes and previously
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Javier Mérida Prieto Completes A Disabled Triple Crown
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Professor Patrick McKnight thinks big. He made two attempts at climbing Mount Everest in 2014 and 2015, and then turned his focus on completing the fastest Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming in history. At the age of 24, Rendy Lynn Opdycke completed her Triple Crown within 35 days
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