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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Christian Reichert of Germany always swims fast in Hong Kong. There is a good reason why he swims so fast in Hong Kong (see explanation above). He twice won the FINA/HOSA 10K Marathon Swimming World Cup race in Hong Kong in 2014 and 2015. He also won the professional […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Peter Ndichu Monimbwe is a sports promoter in Kenya and head of the Lamu Sea Swimming Promotion Group. The Group is registered with the Republic of Kenya Sports Department and operates from the Lamu Archipelago in Lamu County in East Africa. The Lamu Sea Swimming Promotion Group organizes three
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Alice Franco partnered up with Italian teammate Matteo Furlan to compete in the elite division grid race at the 2015 King and Queen of the Sea in Copacabana Beach, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She gives her impressions of the race below: Copyright © 2015 by World Open Water Swimming
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. South African Michele Weber put in a great effort this morning in Copacabana Beach in her first visit to Rio de Janeiro. She teamed up with veteran and former training partner Chad Ho to place third in the elite division of the King and Queen of the Sea grid
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. At today’s 1 km grid race in the King and Queen of the Sea (Rei e Rainha do Mar) on Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro, the American duo of Chip Peterson and Christine Jennings finished first in a time of 8:59.0 over an elite field. Team USA was
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Patrick Winkler is always ahead of the game. When the creative aquapreneur launched the SWIM Channel Magazine in 2010, his focus on the Brazilian aquatics market, including over 200 open water swims throughout the country, was boosted by his online presence and radio programs. By 2012, The SWIM Channel
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. At the annual King and Queen of the Sea event (Rei e Rainha do Mar) in Copacabana Beach, Rio de Janeiro this week, tomorrow’s grid race will determine the positioning of the team’s for Sunday’s live televised race in Brazil. The grid race will offer the first prize of
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. “Adam Walker is not your everyday record-breaking sportsman. He took on arguably the toughest extreme sport on the planet – to swim non-stop across seven of the world’s deadliest oceans wearing only swim trunks, cap and goggles. It is not a test for the faint-hearted: swimmers face freezing temperatures,
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Back in August 2015, Ger Kennedy attempted to swim halfway from UK waters to Dublin, primarily to learn more about his ultimate goal: a 100 km solo stage swim from Holyhead in Wales to Dublin, Ireland across the Irish Sea. His goal is to average 6-8 hours swimming per
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Ross Bogue is an American open water swimmer from Danvers, Illinois who specializes in butterfly. What is interesting is that he has done the same swim – the Big Shoulders 5 km in Lake Michigan right off the shoreline of Chicago – both butterfly and freestyle: *2006 freestyle in
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