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63-year-old Jim Clifford Does The Triple Crown Courtesy of Barbara Held. Jim Clifford became the oldest person to have completed the Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming with his crossing of the English Channel today. “In 2014 he swam the Manhattan Island Marathon Swim. A couple months later, he became the oldest individual to complete […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Daniel Curtis started off his tour of Japan in the Namihaya Dome in Osaka. 13 days later he headed north to Aomori Prefecture to begin his brief acclimatization to the waters of the Tsugaru Channel. Today, he completed this third Oceans Seven channel with a successful crossing of the
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Courtesy of Frank Fennema Photography of Night Train 300 in San Francisco Bay, California. The first day and night of an anticipated 6-day 300-mile relay journey is nearly over. Grace van der Byl jumped in San Francisco Bay at 10 am on Sunday morning [shown above] to start the Night Train 300 relay (NT300). Grace
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Courtesy of Masayuki Moriya in a sea cave in Dogashima (堂ヶ島) along the western coast of Izu Peninsula (西伊豆) on Honshu Island in Japan.
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Under the guidance of escort boat pilot Captain Mizushima, Ocean Navi‘s relay team of Atusko Tamaru (タマル アツコ), Sakae Morikawa (モリカワ サカエ), Kiyoko Inoue (イノウエ キヨコ), Morihiko Inokuma (イノクマ モリヒコ), Sanae Kataoka (カタオカ サナエ), and Tamotsu Naito (ナイトウ タモツ) completed the season’s first successful relay crossing in 13 hours 33 minutes. The team took off
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Biathlon marathons are tough. Swim at least 10 km and run at least 42 km – it is not an easy feat no matter what the venue. Either way is tough: the first leg, either running or swimming, is undoubtedly tiring and taxing. If the water is warm, then
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. In 1949 Aldo Fioravanti and Cesare Alfieri became the first people to swim from the Island of Capri to Napoli in Italy. Their crossing took 12 hours and was soon transformed to the Maratona del Golfo Capri-Napoli that has served as world championship races and a traditional stop on
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. A Canadian 8-person relay of young swimmers from St. Catharines, Ontario included Abby-gail Jones, Alyssa Mundy, Ayla Jukosky, Charlie French, Jayson Pigeon, Michaela Arsenault, Ming Scott, and Trinity Arsenault. They swam a cumulative total of 90.154 km in Lake Ontario last week over 24 hours 2 minutes. Everything was
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. When athletes swim and look up from the water’s edge, their perspectives are always interesting to us. Looking up towards the Golden Gate Bridge spanning the San Francisco Bay in California reminds us of looking up towards the George Washington Bridge spanning the Hudson River in New York from
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. After Grace van der Byl jumped in San Francisco Bay at 10 am this morning [shown above] to start the Night Train 300 relay (NT300), there is no looking back until the sextet swims a total of 300 miles (482.2 km) in another charity swim by the Night Train
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