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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The 2015 Venezuela Open Water National Championships (XIV Campeonato Nacional de Aguas Abiertas) is being held in Naiguatá this weekend with 2 km, 3 km, 5 km and 10 km races. The top spots enabled the fastest swimmers to qualify for the South American Beach Games that will be […]
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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 Abhejali Bernardova, Catalina Channel, California. Abhejali Bernardova from Sri Chinmoy Marathon Team Czech Republic swam the Catalina Channel on August 17th-18th in 9 hours 46 minutes. By completing this swim she became the first Czech swimmer to complete the Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming. “I had a great team on board: pilot
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. For only the second time in the past 46 years, the Waikiki Roughwater Swim was cancelled due to unsafe conditions. With large swells relentlessly crashing upon the outer coral reef in Waikiki Bay, the 2.4-mile ocean swim would have been too rough and much too unsafe for the vast
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Courtesy of Njål Arnar Johansen in Bergen on Norway’s southwestern coast. Bergen Open Water is an open water swimming competition in Bergen on Norway’s southwestern coast surrounded by mountains and fjords. The races include distances of 50m, 100m, 400m, 1500m and 5000m. Top 3 women in 1.5 km race: 1 Thea Ebbing 20:31 2 Anette
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Stavanger Open Water is a multi-race open water swimming and biathlon event in the southwest of Norway. Its races include 250m, 500m, 1 km, 3 km, and 5 km swims as well as biathlons of 1 km + 5 km run and 1 km + 8 km run. Fastest
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. 100 years ago on September 5th 1915, 18-year-old Robert Dowling became the first person to swim around Manhattan Island in New York City. Manhattan Island Dowling began his 13 hour 34 minute swim at 10:15 pm near Spuyten Duyvil, swimming through the night down the Hudson River and up
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Courtesy of Village Silversmith, New England’s favorite jewelry shop and sponsor of the Beverly Shark Swim in Massachusetts. Awards for the top swimmers at the Beverly Shark Swim are real fossilized shark teeth. The New England Open Water Swimming Association-sanctioned event winners receive the shark teeth from the extinct Otodus Obliquus. These are very large
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. At the age of 75, Harry Huffaker is using the 46th annual Waikiki Roughwater Swim [WRS] as a final tune-up swim for his attempt of the 26-mile (42 km) Molokai Channel in a few weeks. There are athletes of all ages from Hawaii, Nevada, Arizona, Texas, New York, Georgia,
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