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World Open Water Swimming Federation, a human-powered project
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. It only seemed a matter of time and focus for the USA Swimming to win the FINA Open Water Championships Trophy. For a country with the most number of open water swimming events, largest number of competitive swimmers, thousands of miles of coastlines and lakes, and a history of […]
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Photos by Giorgio Perottino for Deepbluemedia. Article courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Ana Marcela Cunha not only defended her 25 km world title, but she collected her seventh career world championship medal with her 5 hour 13 minute victory in today’s 25 km race. She has demonstrated her prowess in short sprints of 5
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Photos by Giorgio Perottino for Deepbluemedia. Article courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. It was quite a FINA World Championships for Simone Ruffini. He not only qualified for the 2016 Olympics with a seventh place finish in the 10 km race, but he also culminated the event with his first world title and a successful
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Courtesy of Water World Swim, Bonifacio Channel between France and Italy. Water World Swim reported that one of its members, David Rich completed a 15 km crossing of the Strait of Bonifacio between France and Italy in 4 hours 56 minutes on July 8th. For more information, read here. Copyright © 2015 by World Open
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Daniel Fung has every reason to be too busy to train. The physician is a specialist in the non-surgical care of spine, musculoskeletal, sports and pain disorders who focuses on interventional spine and pain procedures including epidural injections, radiofrequency ablation, nerve blocks, intradiscal treatments, platelet rich plasma injections, stem
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Courtesy of Lane Vail for Natural Awakenings. Bostonian avid open-water swimmer Kate Radville is delighted that water constitutes 70 percent of the Earth’s surface. “The controlled environment of a swimming pool is convenient,” she says, “but splashing around outside in the beautiful summer sunshine is undeniably liberating.” …read more here.
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. A cada brazada: el azul interminable is a Spanish-language book by Nora Toledano and Antonio Argüelles that describes their channel crossings and colorfully equates their channel swimming experiences to a survival in the sea of life. The book is now published in English, With Each Stroke: The Endless Blue
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Consistency is usually the hallmark of marathon swimmers. But Angela Maurer has taken consistency to a unique level over the last 15 years. At the 2000 FINA World Championships, she finished third in 5:30:08 (less than 3 seconds from gold). In 2001, she finished third in 6:06:19 (9 minutes
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The sights, scenes, stars and stories of the Special Olympics World Summer Games are being currently covered by hundreds of national and international media outlets on radio, television, print and online. Here are a few of the perspectives from the open water swimming perspective: * Getting Open Water Swimming
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. We counted over 40 officially accredited photographers and media personnel at the 1.5 km open water swim in Long Beach, California at the 2015 Special Olympics World Summer Games – and there may have been even more reporters and videographers conducting interviews and shooting film. The attention paid to
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