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Courtesy of Mike Pickles/Power of Sports Images at The Five in Hong Kong, a World Open Water Swimming Series event. Pick your line and line-up where you feel best, even if you are not right on the exact starting line. Copyright © 2015 by World Open Water Swimming Association
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Courtesy of Mike Pickles Photography at The Five in Hong Kong. When a pack of swimmers splits into two smaller packs, stay with one group or the other. Do not swim in-between the two packs and get no benefit from drafting. Copyright © 2015 by World Open Water Swimming Association
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Swing your feet outwards and over the surface of the water when running through shallow water at the end of an open water race with an onshore finish or towards the T1 transition. It is easier than running or plowing ‘through’ the water that creates much more resistance. Copyright
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Both American Chip Peterson and Italian Rachele Bruni won today’s stage in Setúbal, Portugal with strong last laps at the FINA/HOSA 10K Marathon Swimming World Cup. The top results for men and women courtesy of Yasunari Hirai: Women: 1. Rachele Bruni (ITA) 2:05.24.45 2. Yumi Kida (JPN) 2:05.34.15 3.
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. 2015 Internationale Deutsche Meisterschaften im Freiwasserschwimmen [ Lindau (Bodensee) ] 10 km Men’s Results (Top 10): 1. Ferry Weertman 1:59:15.00 2. Rob Muffels 1:59:30.97 3. Alexander Studzinski 1:59:33.29 4. Marcel Schouten 1:59:34.03 5. Pepijn Smits 1:59:42.81 6. Hendrik Rijkens 1:59:44.89 7. Eric Reub 1:59:48.45 8. Marcus Herwig 2:02:27.71 9.
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Photo of Pádraig Mallon courtesy of Brian Meharg. When swimmers venture past the shoreline in open bodies of water, they occasionally come in contact with a wide variety of marine life. These denizens of the shallows or the deep can be small and invisible to see or extremely large and potentially dangerous. Our personal classifications
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Annaleise Carr is back. But this time she is onshore and not swimming for hours on end. The young Canadian teenager who has been raising hundreds of thousands of dollars for Camp Trillium through her solo marathon swims is now expanding her reach by organizing shorter swims for others.
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Swipping is a conjoining of the words swimming and slipping that Gary Hall Sr. of The Race Club coined as a description of swimming with the least amount of frontal drag possible. His explanation is here. While optimal swipping may be thought of as a means to reduce the
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. 39-year-old Anna Wardley launched her latest adventure, the Balearic Swim Challenge that will see her swim between, Minorca, Mallorca, Ibiza to the mainland of Spain between September and December 2015. The stages are as follows: • Stage 1: 37 km from Menorca to Mallorca during September-October • Stage 2:
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Doha Gharbi is organizing the Ouma of Monastir in Tunisia. 1,000 children will prepare and train for the Ouma on on September 4th, 5th and 6th. “I consider that Ouma is on the good trajectory,” says ouma creator Nejib Belhedi. “I consider that Ouma of Monastir will bring excellent
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