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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. 19-year-old Shubham Dhananjay Vanmali of India became the 120th person in history to complete the Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming. He crossed the English Channel in 12 hours 42 minutes and the Catalina Channel in 10 hours 42 minutes. He completed the Triple Crown with an 8 hour […]
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Photo of Ferry Weertman (silver), Jordan Wilimovsky (USA) and Spyridon Gianniotis (Greece) by Giorgio Scala of Deepbluemedia. Article courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Jordan Wilimovsky manhandled the world’s best at the FINA World Swimming Championships in Kazan, Russia, but this weekend, he will enter another highly competitive race where there are no guarantees. The
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Courtesy of Vicky Miller who crossed the North Channel from Northern Ireland to Portpatrick, Scotland on July 28th in 12 hours 6 minutes under the escort of Brian Meharg and Mervyn Kinney with observer Gary Knox.
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Attila To Attempt A Quick Two-Fer Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Attila Mányoki, who has crossed the English Channel and Tsugaru Channel as well as a number of other marathon swims, will have a tough double in the Pacific Ocean in a few weeks. On September 21st, he will set off on a Molokai
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. “Swimming in the sea makes me feel free and alive, in intimate contact with nature,” says author and open water swimmer Miquel Sunyer. “Swimming is my own private form of meditation. I rejoice in the silence around me and relax with the sound of my own breathing. The sea
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. While Cap Gris Nez looms large in the channel swimming community, very few people know about its Pacific Ocean comparable, Shirakami Misaki in northern Japan’s Tsugaru Channel. Cape Shirakami (or 白神岬 in Japanese) juts out from the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido just like Cap Gris Nez is an
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Images courtesy of FINA with race highlights here. Aurélie Muller of France has an English-language tattoo imprinted on her foot, “chase your dreams”. That she has been chasing her dream for three Olympic quadrennials. She initially qualified for the 2008 Beijing Olympic 10 km marathon swim, but finished a
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Judy Labrona posted these photos above on her Facebook page and sent the photos to Bill’s Channel and Bill’s Channel Facebook page. Labrona supposedly took the pictures while in Sri Lanka. “I went snorkeling and came across a guy taking his elephant for a swim. I started taking some
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The children at the Rudolf Steiner Kindergarten Sonnenberg Uster in Switzerland look at their teacher Vedika Bolliger as an educator and friend. But the open water swimming community remembers Bollinger as someone with incredible stamina. Over the course of her career, she made five successful crossings of the English
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Craig Lord of Vortex writes, “The founding principles of the World Swimming Association, officially adopted in Cleveland this week as the organisation that intends to take over the global governance of the sport, were backed by a unanimous vote of approval from more than 650 coaches this weekend. The Board of the World Swimming Coaches
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