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World Open Water Swimming Federation, a human-powered project
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Learn-to-swim programs are promoted, funded and conducted all over the United States. Arguably the most well-known and well-promoted learn-to-swim program is USA Swimming’s Make A Splash program, but there are many other programs from California funded and co-organized by the Night Train Swimmers to New York organized and funded […]
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Courtesy of Kane Kossew, Cape Town, South Africa. Photos courtesy of Shawn Benjamin. 58-year-old Theodore Yach started his journey between Robben Island and Cape Town in November 1981. More than 34 years later, he completed his Century Swim (100th crossing) in 3 hours 10 minutes in 13-14ºC (53-55ºF) waters from Robben Island. Today, Yach was
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Ritu Kedia is an open water swimmer, a chemical engineer and entrepreneur from India who successfully completed 4 marathon swims and 2 Oceans Seven channels within a span of 26 days when Kedia was 18 years old in 2007. She crossed the Strait of Gibraltar on July 17th in
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Bruce Wigo has been the President and Chief Executive Officer of the International Swimming Hall of Fame since 2005. Wigo has been traveling the world to promote the mission of and heroes inducted in the International Swimming Hall of Fame. On his last visit to Europe, he met with
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. When the pressure of competing in the Olympics dawns on the 25 finalists at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games and the men’s race comes down to the final lap, there will be surprises. The old adage in open water swimming, “Expect the Unexpected,” will undoubtedly come to the fore.
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Mexico’s Antonio Argüelles Díaz-González will attempt his fifth Oceans Sevens (Siete Mares) swim in the Molokai Channel in Hawaii this week. It will be another channel attempt after he has completed crossings of the English Channel (twice), Catalina Channel (twice), Strait of Gibraltar and the Tsugaru Channel over the
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Courtesy of Kane Kossew, Cape Town, South Africa. Capetonian open water swimmer Theodore Yach will attempt his 100th Robben Island crossing tomorrow with the weather conditions looking good. Yach will be welcomed at his finish at Three Anchor Bay beach by Premier Helen Zille, Lewis Pugh, Professor Tim Noakes and English Channel record holder and
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Arianna Bridi is a great open water swimmer, but she faces a slew of world-class competition in her native Italy. Swimmers like Rachele Bruni and Martina Grimaldi are her more well-known domestic competitors. But after a long winter season of hard training, she came into her own at the
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The Tyumen Club has already raised 50% of the money necessary to purchase a specially modified vehicle for their fellow winter swimmer Vladimir. The disabled winter swimmer wants to be able to travel to winter swimming competitions himself. Nuala Moore says of him, “He is amazing and competes everywhere.
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Emmanuel Hiriart is an open water swimming and triathlon coach with over 2 decades of racing experience. He has established Mountainride in Beirut, Lebanon. Hiriart organizes workouts and training camps with dreams to develop open water swimming in Lebanon. “I will organize a 8-10 km race in Tripoli north
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