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Photos courtesy of Simon Watts, New Zealand Ocean Swim Series. Charlotte Webby has certainly come into her own after the last few years. After been chased by Olympic qualifier Emma Robinson in the King of The Bays race in Auckland, Webby pulled out a victory in 31 minutes 2 seconds. Her victory on the last […]
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Photos courtesy of Simon Watts, New Zealand Ocean Swim Series. CORRECTION: Kane Radford was initially declared the winner of the 2015-2016 New Zealand Ocean Swim Series, but Nathan Capp was later declared the victor (story here). The initial article – with corrections – is shown below. A week before he races some of the fastest
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Open water swimmers and Olympic medalists Haley Anderson, Rebecca Soni, and Oussama Melloli are volunteering their time at the 36th Annual Swim With Mike charity event today at the University of Southern California’s Uytengsu Aquatics Center. USC Head Coach Dave Salo will run the masters swimming workout which will
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Courtesy of Pam Lazzarotto, Canada. Canadian pool and open water swimmer Pam Lazzarotto has created a jewelry sport line that is used for fundraising for masters swimming teams and race directors to raise money for their teams or causes. “The great thing is, selling jewelry can be used to raise money for whatever the team
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Olympic silver medalist and 5 km world champion Haley Anderson courtesy of Mitchell Haaseth of NBC for Hell’s Kitchen. World championship medalist Ashley Twichell of the U.S.A. 3-time Olympian and 10 km world champion Poliana Okimoto of Brazil. Reigning world 10 km champion Aurélie Muller of France © L’Agora du Sport. Powerful, lithe, and graceful.
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Jordan Wilimovsky, the defending 10 km world champion and pre-race gold medal favorite in the 2016 Olympic 10K Marathon Swim, is leaving a huge void at the upcoming 2016 USA Swimming National Open Water Swimming Championships next week in Florida. But the void will be quickly filled by an
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Courtesy of Nuala Moore, Tyumen, Siberia, Russia. It is always a study in contrasts when the winter swimmers slowly and gently lower themselves in the near-0ºC water during winter swimming and ice swimming competitions. They grab the wall with one hand, check their goggles, touch their swim cap, place their feet on the wall…all while
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Courtesy of Konstantin Soldatov, Geometria.ru, Yekaterinburg, Sverdlovskaya Oblast’, Russia. The images that Konstantin Soldatov creates are as powerful and impactful as the subjects of his majestry themselves. Henri Kaarma is captured right after the start at the 2016 Winter World Swimming Championships. Copyright © 2016 by World Open Water Swimming Association
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