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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Back in the ol’ days (pre-GPS, pre-jammer, pre-Facebook, pre-mobile phone, pre-Shark Shield), there were more than a few remarkable swims buried in the archives of the sport. But contemporary swimmers have a great approach to calling attention to these long-lost swims. The common bond between Paul Asmuth and Grant […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Universiade, Republic of Korea. In what amounts to one of the most unusual high-level marathon swimming races at the international level, Italy took the top two podium spots with gold medalist Arianna Bridi and silver medalist Ilaria Raimondi finishing ahead of American Stephanie Peacock. But Bridi’s large margin of victory and the
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Listen to an interview with Lynne Cox courtesy of here: BBC The icy swim that warmed Cold War relations. What is so striking to us is not the fact that the brilliant Lynne Cox completed the first crossing from Little Diomede (U.S.A.) to Big Diomede (U.S.S.R.) in 2 hours 6 minutes on August 7th 1987,
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Chris Blakeslee (aka El Sharko) conducted test swims of 10 km and 20 km in Tomales Bay, north of San Francisco in Marin County on June 20th. El Sharko whose oft-claim (“I never met a shark I didn’t like“) is an indication of his passion for all things open
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The Tokyo metropolitan government will open a swimming beach at Kasai Rinkai Park (葛西臨海公園) this weekend – for the first time in 50 years – as a pilot program to see if there is demand for a beach in central Tokyo, a megalopolis of nearly 32 million people. Since
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Courtesy of Marisa Frieder, race director of the 10.7-mile (17.2 km) Portland Bridge Swim, Oregon. Records fell at the 2015 Portland Bridge Swim. Eddie Switaj of Mercer Island, Washington, smashed the course record with a time of 3 hours 37 minutes, 12 minutes faster than the previous solo record. Katie Main, a medical student from
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. So it seems that contemporary ice swimmers may be well ahead of their times and the predicted climatic shift. The Daily Mail reported on predictions by scientists that the Earth may enter a mini Ice Age by 2030. While only a few thousands of bioprened people around the world
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Ned Denison has one of the widest arm spans in the open water swimming world, but his personal network has an even greater global reach. Denison has recruited an outstanding new group of marathon swimmers to serve on the voting panel of the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame.
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Courtesy of People’s Daily, China. The People’s Daily reported on July 12th that 1,200 people swam across the Han River in memory of 49th anniversary of Mao Zedong‘s historic swim in the Yangtze River. Copyright © 2015 by World Open Water Swimming Association
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Courtesy of Pádraig Mallon, Infinity Channel Swimming and Piloting Services. Success cannot always be measured by a finish line. On July 11th, Team 210oSOUTHWEST set off from Cushendal to travel to the Mull of Kintyre for the start of their Dál Riata channel crossing attempt. First attempted in 1928 by Mercedes Gleitze, the 17 km
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