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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The Sea Hawk relay team had its sights on swimming a record-shattering 490 km relay, but the team of 6 Indian swimmers feel slight short of their goal. Yet the team still managed to swim an incredible 433 km over a 6-day period between February 13th-19th. The Sea Hawk […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. When FINA first added open water swimming to its schedule, it only had the 25 km marathon swim to its schedule at the 1991 FINA World Championships. Gradually, the 5 km, 10 km and 5 km team trial races were added…as the rest of the aquatic world has started
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Re-invention Through Butterfly, Making Up For Lost Time Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Word has it that Dan Provjansky is going to have a second bout with the Red River of the North in Andy Magness‘ annual Extreme North Dakota Watersports Endurance Test (END-WET), a 36-mile (57.9 km) marathon swim from rural North Dakota
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Lewis Pugh‘s exhibition on his Five Swims in Antarctica for 1 Reason opened up in Moscow on March 20th featuring the remarkable photography of Kelvin Trautman. For more visual delights by Kelvin Trautman, visit here. Copyright © 2015 by World Open Water Swimming Association
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. “Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet,” so wrote Rudyard Kipling in 1892. What was true in 1892 is increasingly being turned around in the 21st century. No one in the previous centuries could imagine swimming at the top or bottom of
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Photos courtesy of Soraya Siviero at the Rei e Rainha do Mar in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Text courtesy of Vanessa Siviero. Sunday opens the first stage of the Circuito Rei e Rainha do Mar (King and Queen of the Sea) 2015 on Copacabana in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The largest festival of beach sports
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Courtesy of Nuala Moore from inside the Polar Circle. With the air temperature around Lake Semenovskoe in Murmansk at -7°C and the water temperature at 0.8°C, the biggest city in the world inside the Arctic Circle, showcased history’s greatest ice swimming competition at the inaugural World Ice Swimming Championships in Murmansk, Russia,. In the men’s
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Courtesy of Nuala Moore from inside the Polar Circle. Petar Stoychev [left] of Bulgaria, a FINA representative, and Ram Barkai [right] of South Africa, co-founder of the International Ice Swimming Association, are shown discussing the recent World Ice Swimming Championships next to the 25m competition pool in Murmansk, Russia. Copyright © 2015 by World Open
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Courtesy of Nuala Moore from inside the Polar Circle. The average age of the fastest men in the 1000m race at the recent International Ice Swimming Championships in Murmansk, Russia was 35-48 while the average age for the fastest women was nearly half or 18-24. But young or older, their times for swimming in 0.8°C
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. ESPN, the American sports broadcasting powerhouse owned by Disney, is going to feature open water swimming sensation Andrew Smiley as part of its coverage of the Special Olympics World Summer Games. The 25-year-old from the Cayman Islands previously won the 2009 World Open Water Swimming Performance of the Year
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