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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. FINA has posted the dates for the 2016 FINA 10K Marathon Swimming World Cup. The FINA World Cup offers 8 races, down from 10 races in 2015. One of the two races not on the 2016 professional circuit is the Setúbal Bay 10 km race which serves as the […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. FINA has posted the dates for the 2016 FINA Open Water Swimming Grand Prix. The FINA Open Water Swimming Grand Prix was won by Macedonia’s Evgenij Pop Acev in 2015 who will try to defend his title next year over the same five races in 2016. 2016 FINA Open
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Courtesy of Jitendra Khasnis. River Bhagirathi is a turbulent Himalayan river in India that is the source stream of the Ganges, the holy river of Hinduism. It is also the venue of the annual 19 km All India Swimming Marathon and the 81 km India National Open Water Swimming Competition, the world’s one-day longest amateur
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Sketch is courtesy of Vito Bialla, escort pilot for Kimberley Chambers, from the Farallon Islands to the Golden Gate Bridge, California. Kimberley Chambers had two escort boats that flanked her on both her left and her right in order to serve as a deterrent to any curious Great White Sharks whose path may have crossed
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The Swimming Union of the Americas (UANA or Unión Americana de Natación) elected 12 Open Water Swimming committee members for the 2015-19 term. UANA is the organization whose purpose is to organize, supervise and control amateur aquatics activities and events involving pool swimming, diving, water polo, synchronized swimming and
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The Tribord Snorkeling Surface Mask Easybreath® is a snorkeling mask for surface snorkeling that enables user to see and breathe underwater similar to dryland (see here). But Ori Sela and team are also using the Easybreath® to complete the 18 km Dead Sea Swim in the Dead Sea to
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World renown extreme sports pioneer and big-wave surfer Laird Hamilton focuses on pushing, pulling, squatting, bending, lunging, and rotating to get quickly in shape. Hamilton writes, “I think of those movements [pushing, pulling, squatting, bending, lunging, and rotating] as primal human motions. I’ve found a certain joy in ditching elaborate routines and fancy gear, and
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Doug Woodring is always looking to reduce his footprint on the marine environment at his events. He had his 9th Clean Half Extreme Marathon Swim caps embroidered and made from 100% recycled plastic bottles. The yak swimmers will also be minimizing their footprint on the marine environment by having
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Courtesy of International Swimming Hall of Fame, Class of 2014 when Sandra Bucha and Jon Erikson were inducted as an Honor Open Water Swimmers. Read about Bucha, Erikson and their fellow honorees of the International Swimming Hall of Fame Class of 2014 here. In this edition, open water swimmer and coach Sid Cassidy was the
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Courtesy of International Swimming Hall of Fame, Class of 2013 when Cliff Lumsdon was inducted as an Honor Open Water Swimmer. Read about Lumsdon and his fellow honorees of the International Swimming Hall of Fame Class of 2013 here. Copyright © 2015 by World Open Water Swimming Association
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