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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. One day after losing to Christian Reichert in the final race of the FINA/HOSA 10K Marathon Swimming World Cup, Allan Do Carmo turned the tables on Reichert and finished first at the 1.5 km New World Harbour Race (新世界維港泳) in Hong Kong’s Victoria Harbour. The difference in the 2 […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. There are 3 courses in the competitive pool swimming world: short course meters, long course meters and [the American] short course yards. The depth of the water and the number of lanes may differ; the types of starting block and finish pads may differ; the water temperatures may vary,
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Without a doubt, Brazilian Olympian Allan Do Carmo, American Olympian Jordan Wilivmovsky and British Jack Burnell will be in the lead pack at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games marathon swim next summer. It is even quite within the realm of possibility that the trio will be fighting at the
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. If we were retired and had an extremely large amount of discretionary funds and a private jet to focus on open water swimming, we would love to travel the world for one year and swim the race courses of both our favorite races and of events that we always
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. British world champion Keri-Anne Payne just touched out 2-time Olympian Ana Marcela Cunha with her Brazilian teammate Poliana Okimoto in third at the last race of the FINA/HOSA 10K Marathon Swimming World Cup. Payne finished the World Cup race in Hong Kong in 2:05:25.6 to Cunha’s 2:05:25.7. While Payne
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Without a doubt, Brazilian Olympian Allan Do Carmo, American Olympian Jordan Wilivmovsky and British Jack Burnell will be in the lead pack at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games marathon swim next summer. It is even quite within the realm of possibility that the trio will be fighting at the
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Courtesy of John Tierney, Serpentine Swimming Club, London. With his recent crossing of the Catalina Channel, John Tierney reported that Daniel Martinez Lobo became the first individual in the world to complete the Chorizo Four.* The Spanish open water swimmer from the Serpentine Swimming Club completed the Catalina Channel in 14 hours 8 minutes on
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. According to the University of Florida’s International Shark Attack File, a swimmer’s chances of being attacked by a shark in the U.S. are 1 in 11.5 million. We looked for the data supporting this probability assumption. Various organizations report that between 75-100 million people go to the beach each
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Courtesy of Juan Carlo of Star staff offshore from California. It seems there are more and more offshore swims being attempted and completed increasingly in the Pacific Ocean and around the world. An offshore swim is defined as a swim in an open body of water where the start and finish is not part of
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Lower photo courtesy of Francesco Sapienza for New York Times. The last time the media followed California ocean swimmer Nick Caine, he was completing a 13 hour 11 minute crossing of the English Channel as a 16-year-old [see photo above]. Now the New York Times followed the young entrepreneur and financial consultant for different reasons.
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