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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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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. There has never been anything like the upcoming 10 km marathon swim race at the 2016 USA Swimming National Open Water Swimming Championships on American soil before. World champions Eva Fabian (USA, 5 km, 2010), Aurélie Muller (France, 10 km, 2015), Haley Anderson (USA, 5 km, 2013 & 2015),
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POW workout plan courtesy of Japan’s Yasunari Hirai strategically training Pool Open Water in Tennessee with training partners Alex Meyer, Richard Weinberger, David Heron, and Sam Rice, and coach Tyler Fenwick. Copyright © 2016 by World Open Water Swimming Association
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Barton Springs Pool is a 300-yard open water pool in Austin, Texas where ROKA and its first award-winning products were tested. Actor and director Robert Redford learned to swim at the pool when he was 5 years old. Copyright © 2016 by World Open Water Swimming Association
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Courtesy of ROKA, winner of the Red Dot Award for Excellence in Product Design. ROKA was founded by two former Stanford All-American swimmers who set out to make the fastest wetsuits on the planet. After launching in 2013, ROKA’s products are used by numerous world-class athletes including ITU World Champions, IRONMAN® Champions and Olympic medalists.
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Courtesy of BBC South East Today, Islas Malvinas, Argentina. Two giants in the ice swimming community completed a tandem swim in 6ºC water between the two main islands of the Islas Malvinas (Falkland Islands). The Falkland Challenge between West Falkland to East Falkland was completed by Matías Ola from Argentina and Jackie Cobell from Great
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Minus. Negative. -0.7ºC. Those kinds of really, really cold water competitions are coming to a conclusion with the end of winter. Golden Sands Cup Bratislava is a 500m and 1 km winter swimming competition held in Wakelake in Bratislava, Zlaté piesky in Slovakia. But with the expected water temperatures
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Open Water Challenge is an inaugural two-race ocean swimming competition held in Paseo Bahia Marina in Aguadilla on the northwestern tip of Puerto Rico on April 17th. Swim 1 km in the day (Nadas de Dia) or swim 500 meters at night (Nadas de la Noche). Copyright © 2016
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Courtesy of Art Marcela Alexandrescu from Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
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