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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Nino Fazio has passed along his swimming DNA to his son Andrea. On September 2nd, Andrea set a new record for a single crossing of the Strait of Messina (Stretto di Messina), swimming from Sicily to mainland Italy in 30 minutes 6 seconds. “It is kind of an epochal […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Adam Jerzykowski completed the first stage of his Swim For a Dream project in Poland. His 20 km swim in Baltic Sea across the Bay of Puck took him over 8 hours. “My body was at its limits, but my head never doubted that I would complete the swim.
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Japan’s top swimmer Yasunari Hirai and his Australian coach Colin Braund certainly hope not. Hirai, Japan’s lone male Olympic marathon swimmer, will be trying for his fourth national title at the 2015 Japan Open Water Swimming Championships (オープンウォータースイミング ジャパンオープン館山) along the Tateyama Hojo Coast in Chiba Prefecture, south of
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. In years past, swimmers like Alison Streeter, Michael Read, Kevin Murphy, Cindy Nicholas, and Des Renford did repeated English Channel crossings. In contemporary times, there are a handful of full-time working women who cross from England to France on a seemingly regular basis, including American podiatrist Marcy MacDonald and
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Due to exceptionally high winds in the week leading up to the scheduled Holidays for Hero’s relay race, the event had to be cancelled and Plan B put into place. The event, sponsored by Nautilus Trust, was the second time Jersey has hosted this particular charity swim. Individual sponsors
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Courtesy of 54-year-old Jeff Everett, who has completed three Oceans Seven channels. Jeff Everett has completed three Oceans Seven channels (English Channel, Catalina Channel and the Strait of Gibraltar) after his 50th birthday. He explains why he was motivated to do so: “During my late 40s, I resolved a mid-life crisis by vowing to swim
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. 4 women over a 4-years period across 4 channels. That is the goal for 4ForBlue, a team of four open water swimmers from Turkey. Their 4-year plan is to swim across different channels around the world as a relay team over a 4-year period. Blue stands for the Aegean
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Rohans More of India has steadily climbed the Oceans Seven rankings. With his 10 hour 37 minute crossing of the Tsugaru Channel in Japan this week, he is now #8 on the list. Like most other Tsugaru Channel swimmers, More started out just at sunrise in fairly calm waters.
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Courtesy of Alberto Font of The Tico Times, Golfo Dulce. It is few open water swims that start with the cries of macaws. But there are few swims held in such a location as the Golfo Dulce in Costa Rica. 19-year-old Christopher Lanuza of Heredia won the inaugural 14 km race across Golfo Dulce in
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Courtesy of Alberto Font, Golfo Dulce, Costa Rica. José Manuel Cullell is a 20-year-old open water swimmer from Costa Rica. He became the first person to swim 14 km across southern Costa Rica’s Golfo Dulce on 4 July 2015 in 4 hours 50 minutes from Playa Nicuesa, near Piedras Blancas National Park, to Puerto Jiménez.
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