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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Chloë McCardel has finished her third two-way crossing of the English Channel, taking 22 hours 42 minutes en route to her planned triple crossing. Her first crossing was 11 hours 34 minutes, her second crossing was an even faster 11 hours 8 minutes in the 17.5°C (63.5°F) water. She […]
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Courtesy of Vasanti Niemz, Lake Zürich, Switzerland. 46 solo swimmers and 18 relay teams representing 18 nations started early on July 26th in Rapperswil, Switzerland to compete in the annual International Self-Transcendence Marathon-Schwimmen. “Our goal was to reach Zürich within the 12-hour cutoff by swimming nonstop or as a relay,” said veteran Vasanti Niemz of
Images courtesy of Universal Sports in Kazan, Russia. Controversy was stirred up and then quietly diffused when Ryan Lochte used an old body surfing technique during his 200m individual medley gold medal performance at the 2015 FINA World Championships in Kazan, Russia. As body surfers have done for generations and a handful of veteran ocean
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Interview of Rob Muffels in Kazan at the FINA World Championships. The German team of Christian Reichert and Rob Muffels and Isabelle Härle finished 16 seconds ahead of Team Brazil and Team Netherlands who incredibly swam the 5 km team pursuit loop course in the exact same time. While Muffels and Reichert was focused on
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Interview of Ana Marcela Cunha in Kazan at the FINA World Championships. Brazil’s Ana Marcela Cunha averaged a 1:15 pace per 100 meters in winning the 25 km FINA World Championships this year, a comfortable 26 seconds over silver medalist Anna Olasz of Hungary. Cunha explained her strategy, “After five hours, I am hungry and
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Interview of Simone Ruffini in Kazan at the 2015 FINA World Championships. Italy’s Simone Ruffini averaged a 1:10.3 pace per 100 meters in winning the 25 km FINA World Championships this year 4.4 seconds over Alex Meyer of the USA. Ruffini explained his strategy, “I made my race in the last 1 km because I
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Nejib Belhedi completed another one even of his World Iron Swim series in the Gulf of Gabès in eastern Tunisia on July 31st. In the Gulf of Gabès, Belhedi started and finished at Limaoua Hamrouni Beach, a total of 21 km with a loop where he swam 11 km
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Photo courtesy of Stephen Millar from Donegal, Ireland. Back in 2011, the 1.2 km out-and-back Moville Lighthouse Swim was attempted as a proof of concept from the Moville Pier to the Moville Lighthouse in Donegal, Ireland. It then started to grow. 15 people participated in the 2012 race (won by Gerard Curran in 17:00 and
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Graeme Lowe from Jersey became the first Channel Islander to swim the North Channel – from Donaghadee , Northern Ireland to Killantringan Lighthouse, Portpatrick, Scotland. He became only the 26th swimmer to complete the North Channel. Before his 12 hour 27 minute crossing, Lowe took a long road of
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Rohans More became the first Indian swimmer to complete a crossing of the North Channel. He completed the swim in 12 hours 46 minutes to add to his growing resume of marathon swims (English Channel in 13 hours 13 minutes, Catalina Channel in 10 hours 17 minutes, Molokai Channel