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World Open Water Swimming Federation, a human-powered project
Courtesy of Nuala Moore, Windermere, England. British veteran Paul Smith finished the 1 km race at the Big Chill Swim Winter Swimming Gala in 14 minutes 8 seconds, only 18 seconds behind the renowned Henri Kaarma in the 6.4ºC (43.5ºF) water temperatures of Windermere, England. Smith, living and swimming out of Nottingham, was a competitive […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. At the Ynares Sports Arena in Pasig City, San Miguel Corporation President Ramon Ang and 1st Filipino Movement Founder Honorable Consul Buddy Cunanan announced the 1st Filipino English Channel Swim by Ingemar Patiño Macarine to thousand of fans, supporters and media representatives. The WOWSA Award nominee and attorney has
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. On the international scene, there may not be many expectations to see Chelsea Gubecka on the Olympic podium at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games, but the 17-year-old Australian will carry the hopes of the proud freestyling lifesaving nation on its shoulders in Copacabana Beach this August. Taking the mantle
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Jordan Wilimovsky is on a roll as the hottest male open water swimmer on the planet. After winning the USA Swimming Championships, FINA World Championships, and the RCP Tiburon Mile, the redshirt senior from Northwestern University took a long airplane ride to the 2016 Australian Open Water Championships in
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Ori Sela of Swim WEST offers 50 short lectures on open water swimming, totaling 1.5 hours, for free here. The course is normally costs $185, but the Daily News of Open Water Swimming readers can obtain the entire 50-lecture course for $0 here. Sela’s curriculum includes the following: Lecture
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. For 62 years, the Sea of Galilee has been the site of a mass participation open water swim called the Sea of Galilee Swim. It attracts over 10,000 participants annually in September. The 63rd annual Sea of Galilee Swim will be held September 16th this year and remains the
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Courtesy of Michael Ventre, New York to London Swim. Michael Ventre is traveling the world in order to swim across the Atlantic Ocean in a charity swim for Oxfam. Ventre, the most accomplished marathon swimmer from Botswana, has another year to go for fundraising and training for his New York to London Swim, but he
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The 28th annual Gar Woods Polar Bear Swim in Lake Tahoe, California will be held on March 5th. As usual, hundreds of spectators are expected to line the pier and deck at Gar Woods Grill & Pier in Carnelian Bay to watch dozes of hardy souls swim 250 yards
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. When we look at the award podium and record books of the winter swimming and ice swimming worlds, our eyes immediately go to the fastest and first. World-class swimmers like Christof Wandratsch of Germany who won the recent 1 km race at the Big Chill Swim Winter Swimming Gala
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Adrian Sarchet (black hat above) spends much of his hours on dryland as a solicitor. He was called as an Advocate of the Royal Court of Guernsey in 2002. But when he ventures past the shorelines of the world, he turns into an adventurer extraordinaire. Besides completing 4 of
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