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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. 60-year-old Slovenian Martin Strel plans to swim 24,000 miles across 107 countries starting in March 2016. The 450-day stage swim will cover the Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean, Pacific Ocean, the Red Sea, the English Channel, the Suez Canal and the Panama Canal while Strel swims between 5 and 12 […]
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Courtesy of Martina Albertazzi for Roads & Kingdoms. Martina Albertazzi describes the lifestyle, training venue and mindset of Chinese winter swims of Shichahai Lake in Beijing. Read her article of these remarkably resilient swimmers here. Copyright © 2015 by World Open Water Swimming Association
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Courtesy of Ram Barkai, International Ice Swimming Association. The first International Ice Swimming Association 1 km Championship in Poland drew an impressive number of world-class swimmers. Carved out of a frozen lake, The Ice in Katowice, Poland attracted 21 athletes competed in the 1 km race. “All the competitors are experienced swimmers with growing number
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Courtesy of Ram Barkai, International Ice Swimming Association. Great athletes can do great things. The Ice is no different. An increasing number of individuals of Olympic pedigree are joining The Ice World – and driving times down in ice swimming competitions around the world. “It was just few weeks ago when The Ice World wondered
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By Louisiana State University swimmer Julius Gloeckner, originally from Freiburg, Germany. Courtesy of Swimming World Magazine
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Courtesy of Hypoxico, New York. With more and more high-altitude swims on the open water swimming horizon, Hypoxico of New York has developed a great way to train for these swims in the mountains. For more information, visit www.hypoxico.com. Copyright © 2015 by World Open Water Swimming Association
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Courtesy of Borut Strel, Šibenik, Croatia.
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Nejib Belhedi will announce additional Iron Swims in his native Tunisia where the media has been stirred up about his open water swims where he continues to pull heavier and heavier boats in tranquil harbors. Large downtown electronic billboards in Sfax are now broadcasting his images in an innovative
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Courtesy of Penny Nagel, Huntington Beach, California. Penelope Nagel, creator of the open water lingo swink*, swunk and swellunication, swims everyday in the Pacific Ocean at La Jolla Cove as a member of the 9:30’s (also dubbed the Aqua-nuts). The La Jolla Cove co-mayor, she has swum 17 miles from Lanai to Napili, Maui in
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The cover of this month’s Open Water Swimming Magazine celebrates the 2015 WOWSA Award winners. Antonio Argüelles Díaz-González, Bridgette Hobart Janeczko, Andrea Fazio, and the World Ice Swimming Championships in Murmansk, Russia are featured and will be honored on the Big Chillswim Winter Swimming Gala weekend held at Low
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