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World Open Water Swimming Federation, a human-powered project
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. On September 21st as part of his ongoing Unir el Mundo project, Matías Ola successfully swam on a crossing between Asia and Oceania, swimming across the border of Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. “The journey began at 6 am in the morning from Indonesia’s Muara Tami in the presence […]
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Courtesy of Bruckner Chase, Gold Coast, Australia. Arguably and often quite convincingly, the world’s most iconic ocean waterman race is the Coates Hire Coolangatta Gold event. The 33.6 km (short course) and 41.8 km (long course) event happens this weekend on Australia’s Gold Coast. The multi-disciplinary course combines ocean swimming, beach running, board paddling and
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Few marathon runs or triathlons – or any open water swims for that matter – have an average age of 48.96 years like the participants in the Swim Around Charleston race. But the athletes who race 12 miles (19.3 km) around Charleston in South Carolina are veterans, experienced mariners
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Courtesy of Radek Táborský, Bodování Českého poháru v dálkovém plavání, Czech Republic. The Czech Republic open water swimming community is well-organized, whether it is winter swimming, creating regulations, or swimming across channels around the world. Its list of channel swimmers is below, headed by Venclovský Francis who enjoyed both winter swimming and channel swimming. His
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Far away from home in a foreign land, it is always good to meet your fellow countrymen. Especially when they take great interest and pride in your accomplishments. Attila Mányoki was invited by Consul General at the Hungary Consulate in Los Angeles, California and spoke about open water swimming
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Dr. Mark Smitherman is a 57-year-old American marathon swimmer and member of the Half Century Club from Clearwater, Florida. The internist achieved both the Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming and the Grand Slam of Open Water Swimming with an English Channel crossing this summer. He explains what attracts
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. 48 teams, 15 solo swimmers, and 7 teams of yak swimmers challenged the weather conditions in the 9th annual Clean Half Extreme Marathon Swim in Hong Kong. Swimmers from a number of countries began at 11:00 am from the main beach in Stanley and swam to Deep Water Bay
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Photo courtesy of Melissa Lundie Photography. Two-time USA Swimming national champion Christine Jennings has been a world-class open water swimmer for a long time, winning a number of FINA World Cup events and the 2010 Pan Pacific Swimming Championship. She has placed high at both USA Swimming national championship races and FINA World Championship events.
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Nejib Belhedi completed another swim on his World Iron Swim tour in the sea of Mahdia in Tunisia. Belhedi’s 4 km swim from the port of Mahdia to the tourism zone was highlighted by Belhedi pulling a 1.5-ton camel and his master behind in a boat. “I completed my
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Swachh Bharat Abhiyan (or Clean India Mission in English) is a national campaign by the Government of India, to clean the streets, roads and infrastructure of India. Launched in 2014 by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the campaign calls to mind Gandhi’s words and is India’s largest cleanliness drive with
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