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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. At today’s Swim Miami 10 km marathon swim in Biscayne Bay near the cruise ship docking stations, a great number feeders and mixers waited patiently on a narrow deck for nearly 180 marathon swimmers to pass and hand them their mixes, foods and drinks. Spending 2-3 hours sitting on […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Following in the footsteps of his father (Robert Strauss, shown above), Jonathan Strauss put on another great show at today’s Swim Miami. Starting off with the 800m swim and then the Miami Mile and 5 km and 10 km race, Biscayne Bay in Miami was filled with nearly 1,000
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Evans – Chase Generations in the Water from Bruckner Chase on Vimeo. Original footage of Colonel Stuart Evans’ 1967 Farallon Islands Swim and Bruckner Chase’s 2005 Tahoe Swim with wife and daughter of Colonel Evans, Michelle. Colonel Evans is the father-in-law of Chase.
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The Jax Shek-O Challenge is celebrating its 10th anniversary year with its July 11th edition at Big Wave Bay in Hong Kong. The different categories for the start at Big Wave Bay and finish at Sheko Back Beach include: 1) Solo: 2.2 km swim or 8.5 run or 9
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. With hundreds of open water swims along both America’s West Coast (aka Left Coast) and its East Coast, the next great area of open water explosion is forecasted to be its Third Coast. A growing number of formal and informal open water swims and swimmers are emerging along America’s
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The current issue of the Swim Channel [see above] is an open water swimmer’s delight. Published by Patrick Winkler and recipient of the 2012 World Open Water Swimming Offering of the Year, the best-selling Brazilian swimming magazine is filled with its usual monthly. plethora of adventurous open water swimming
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Courtesy of Stéphane Lecat reporting on the top finishers in today’s FINA/HOSA 10km Marathon Swimming World Cup in New Caledonia. 1. Aurélie Muller (France) 2:09:18 2. Anna Olasz (Hungary) 2:09:45 3. Coralie Codevelle (France) 2:10:27 1. Rhys Mainstone (Australia) 1:56:53 2. Marc-Antoine Olivier (France) 1:56:56 3. Axel Reymond (France) 1:57:24 4. Romain Beraud (France) 1:57:24
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Emma Robinson [in orange cap above] got the upper hand against rival Charlotte Webby at today’s State King of the Bays, but Charlotte Webby won the overall New Zealand Ocean Swim Series season title by capturing second in the season-ending race. It was fitting for a fine week by
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Photo of Nathan Capp courtesy Simon Watts/BW Media. The week has been a great one for 22-year-old Nathan Capp from Auckland. He first won the New Zealand Open Swimming Championships and then captured the New Zealand Ocean Swim Series title, after a thrilling finish in the season-ending State King of the Bays race at Takapuna.
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Photo and video courtesy of Jonathan Strauss. The Swim Miami weekend kicks off with a FINIS Open Water Swim Clinic with Luane Rowe followed by a KAATSU Aqua Clinic with Steven Munatones held at the Miami Yacht Club on Watson Island in Miami, Florida. Rowe has won numerous races from Australia to Hawaii to Florida
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