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World Open Water Swimming Federation, a human-powered project
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Meredith Novack is the subject of a new mobile app via FanHero. The Honolulu-based Novack explains, “There are only a few professional athletes in the entire world that have their very own app – I am the first from Oahu. This app is a fan’s dream – it has […]
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Courtesy of Butterfly Bob Wood, Darlington Masters Butterfly Bob Wood recently completed a 24 km self-escorted, self-circumnavigation of Koh Tao, Thailand, swimming freestyle 7 hours 56 minutes without an escort crew. Copyright © 2016 by World Open Water Swimming Association
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Photo courtesy of Roseli Johnson, Images by Roseli, Bermuda. Even since Captain Matthew Webb crawled out of the English Channel in 1875, the collective open water swimming community has continued to get better and better. Decades ago, the North Channel between Scotland and Northern Ireland, was considered a venue for only the very top echelon
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Courtesy of Flowers Sea Swim, Grand Cayman Island. Top 25 Results: 1 Chip Peterson
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Courtesy of Adam Walker, Man vs. Ocean.
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Courtesy of Patrícia Farias de França from Leme beach to Pontal in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. In the build-up to the 2016 Rio Olympic Games, Japanese 10 km marathon swim qualifiers Yasunari Hirai and Yumi Kida are being celebrated by the Japanese media. Copyright © 2016 by World Open Water Swimming Association
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. As open water swimmers take to colder and colder waters with the International Winter Swimming Association World Cup and the International Ice Swimming Association ice kilometer and ice mile events, it also seems the swimmers are going further, enduring tougher swims, and getting older. Colder. Further. Tougher. Older. There
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Toni Enderli is a typically tough South African open water swimmer, ice swimmer, and channel swimmer. Similar to many of his South African colleagues, he is entrepreneurial, versatile, and adventurous. Besides his ice mile, he has completed an 8 km Swim For Hope around Cape Point in South Africa
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