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24 Hour Relay in SF 2016 from Lisa Amorao on Vimeo. Report courtesy of Suzie Dods, 24 Hour Relay in San Francisco, California. It was all difficult: 24 straight hours swimming as relay members in Aquatic Park in San Francisco, California. Non-stop swimming, napping and eating. But Madhuri Yechuri of India made it especially difficult […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Winter swimmers kept on getting in and out of the 1.2°C (34.3°F) water of the Hudson River at the 2016 United States Winter Swimming Association (USWSA) National Championships. But the swimmers were not quitting or calling it a day. They had not reached the limit of their potential; rather,
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Swam That Race is a 4-race open water swimming event held in Emerson Bay, a wind-protected bay near the southern tip of west Lake Okoboji in Iowa, U.S.A. 2.5 km, 5 km, 7.5 km and 10 km races in a rectangular course are held in the 75ºF (23.8ºC) waters
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Courtesy of Big Chill Swim, Windermere, England.
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Courtesy of Big Chill Swim Winter Swimming Gala in Windermere, England. Windermere was downright inhospitable with strong winds, overcast skies, and 6.4ºC (43.5ºF) water temperatures. But the ice swimmers entered in the Big Chill Swim Winter Swimming Gala in Windermere, England only smiled and cheered one another on. There were no grumbles or gripes about
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Courtesy of Sally Coghlan McDonald, San Francisco, California. Frank Coghlan was an American open water swimmer from California and a member of the South End Rowing Club for nearly 40 years and swam in the San Francisco Bay almost every day until he was 80 years old. Over the course of his career, Coghlan completed
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Courtesy of Ben Hooper, Swim The Big Blue. Only a very infinitesimal number of open water swimmers hope to do, plan and execute transoceanic swims. Each of these swims takes in extraordinarily large amount of funds, supporters, logistics and operational planning. Most of them require years of planning and fund-raising. As a result, many transoceanic
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Theodore Yach is approaching his 100th crossing between Cape Town and Robben Island. He recently completed his 98th crossing in 2 hours 26 minutes and plans to soon reach 100 crossings. Yach’s Century Swim has been built up based on these following crossings. Water temperatures have been 11-16ºC during
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. After headlining the WOWSA Awards and cheering on his ice swimming colleagues at the Big Chill Swim and International Winter Swimming Association World Cup in Windermere, England, Lewis Pugh took off to Dubai. Pugh will deliver another speech on his pioneering swims in the North Pole and in the
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Sally Minty-Gravett has been balancing her own marathon swimming goals with helping other swimmers of all ages achieve their own dreams for decades. The 57-year-old swimming coach is all about educating and inspiring others in the waters around her home base of Jersey. She is currently training a wide
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