Did He Start Up At The Bridge?
Photo courtesy of Five Islands Challenge, organized by Samoa Events.
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FINA Announces Is Open Water Swim World Events
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. FINA has always been about elite swimmers, sanctioning FINA Grand Prix events since 1991 and FINA World Cup events for the last several years as well as overseeing the open water races at the Olympics and World Championships. But FINA has always had an audience and many fans who
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Swimming With Seti
Courtesy of Samoa Observer. For three millennia, the people of Samoa have been taking to their surrounding waters. And now Seti Afoa is taking that cultural heritage and expanding it in a friendly, international, competitive environment. He is one very busy man with a grand vision to make Samoa a South Pacific nation that brings
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Reece Southall Separating Himself From The Pack
Photo courtesy of Scott T Photography. Reece Southall recently won the Epic 17.5 km marathon swim in Lake Taupo in 4 hours 12 minutes. It was a long stretch for the multi-talented and versatile teenager from Down Under. The 16-year-old Queensland native does everything from marathon swims to representing Queensland in the Australian Pool Rescue
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How Beth French Will Attack The Oceans Seven
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Beth French is a 39-year-old British swimmer, motivational speaker, and coach. The 24-hour Club member plans to become the first person to complete a Calendar Year Oceans Seven. Her Calendar Year Oceans Seven will start with the North Channel, then the Catalina Channel, the Molokai Channel, the Cook Strait,
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Shipp Fits The Bill: NEKOWSA Swimmer Of The Year
Courtesy of Phil White of the Northeast Kingdom Open Water Swimming Association, Vermont. Picking the Northeast Kingdom Open Water Swimming Association Swimmer of the Year for 2015 is not just a time to spotlight a single extraordinary swimmer, we relish the opportunity to look back over a truly robust year of swimming and think on
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A Toaster Salesman Is Now #1
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Adam Walker’s biography, entitled Man vs Ocean: A Toaster Salesman Who Sets Out to Swim the World’s Deadliest Oceans and Change His Life For Ever, is now the #1 best seller among swimmer biographies on Amazon. Man vs. Ocean is about Walker‘s life-changing Oceans Seven journey swimming seven channels
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St Kilda Swim Nominated For National Adventure Awards
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The National Adventure Awards celebrate the very best of adventure across England, Wales and Scotland. The awards are open to anyone and any member of the public can submit nominations for people, teams and businesses across a broad range of categories. The judging panel consists of individuals from a
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Siri Knows Lucky’s Lake Swim
Courtesy of WUCF TV’s ONE Central Florida, Lucky’s Lake Swim in Lake Cane, Orlando, Florida. Lucky’s Lake Swim is a 1 km lake swim started by Lucky Meisenheimer in Lake Cane at his home in 1989 in Orlando, Florida. The free swim has achieved a cult status with open water swimmers and triathletes and was
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Charlotte Webby Wins New Zealand National Title
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Charlotte Webby won her second consecutive national championship at the New Zealand Open Water Championships 10 km race in Lake Taupo. In a tune-up for the upcoming Australian Open Water Nationals and the Olympic 10K Marathon Swim qualifying race in Portugal in June, Webby led from the start to
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