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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. We have used Swim Power to analyze a large number of open water swimmers and triathletes. Swim Power analyzes swimming performance and is an easy-to-understand and visual way to educate coaches and athletes of all ages and abilities. “Swim Power educates swimmers and their coaches about their mistakes in […]
Courtesy of a great group of outstanding open water swimmers. Who are these swimmers? Where are there? And why are they together? Copyright © 2015 by World Open Water Swimming Association
Courtesy of Nuala Moore, Ice Swimmer from Ireland. Outsider Magazine, Ireland’s leading adventure magazine, is conducting its Outsider Outdoor/Adventure Photo of the Year campaign with the usual bikers, climbers, skiers and adventurers captured in action. This year, there is a swimmer in their midst. Nuala Moore captured Vasilly Mosin racing butterfly at night in 0ºC
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Courtesy of Global Marathon Swimming Awards of the Marathon Swimmers Federation. The Marathon Swimmers Federation announced its 2015 Global Marathon Swimming Awards. Relay of the Year for the most outstanding relay swim of 2015 was given to The Old Men and the Sea of the U.S.A. that included Bill Spore, Dave Radcliff, Graham Johnston, Bob
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Courtesy of Global Marathon Swimming Awards of the Marathon Swimmers Federation. The Marathon Swimmers Federation announced its 2015 Global Marathon Swimming Awards. The Yudovin Award for Most Adventurous Swim for the most adventurous, interesting, or unusual swim was given to Wendy Trehiou of Jersey for her 35-mile (56.3 km) St. Malo in France to Jersey
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Courtesy of Global Marathon Swimming Awards of the Marathon Swimmers Federation. The Marathon Swimmers Federation announced its 2015 Global Marathon Swimming Awards. Service to Marathon Swimming Award for the individual or group who have contributed most meaningfully to the sport of marathon swimming in a non-swimming role was given to Dan Simonelli of the U.S.A.
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Courtesy of Global Marathon Swimming Awards of the Marathon Swimmers Federation. The Marathon Swimmers Federation announced its 2015 Global Marathon Swimming Awards. Barra Award for the most impressive year of marathon swimming, all considered, was a tie: *Mark Sheridan [shown above] of the U.K. for his English Channel crossing, Catalina Channel crossing, S.C.A.R. Swim in
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Courtesy of Global Marathon Swimming Awards of the Marathon Swimmers Federation. The Marathon Swimmers Federation announced its 2015 Global Marathon Swimming Awards. Barra Award for the most impressive year of marathon swimming was a tie: *Craig Lenning [shown above] of the U.S.A. for his 22-mile (35 km) crossing of Loch Ness in Scotland, 28-mile (45
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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 for more. What drives a person to do something over and over again, especially such an arduous challenge? We hope to find out
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Ned Denison is not the only swimmer traveling around the world to test himself for 24 hours in San Francisco Bay this weekend. “We have about 50 swimmers,” says Suzie Dods who created the 24 Hour Swim Relay in San Francisco. The 24 Hour Swim is a 4-person relay
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