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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The Jarak-Šabac Marathon Swim, formally known as the Plivački maraton Jarak-Šabac (“Peace Race”), is a professional 19 km marathon swimming competition that is held in the Sava River in Šabac, Serbia. The race heads from Jarak (Јарак), a town of 2,200 people, and finishes in Šabac. These are the […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA in Lapland Lake Semenovskoye, Russia. Great athletes ride huge towering waves around the world risking death of every ride over 50 feet. Great athletes dive down to the depths that crush their lungs to the size of small fruit. Great athletes swim mind-boggling long distances despite the threat of jellyfish, sharks, venomous
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. When open water swimmers see each other years or decades after a competition, it is as if time stands still. They remember the details of their swims like it was yesterday. They remember the currents, the water temperature, their escort crew, their post-race meals. “My old friend Megan [Mitchell]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. A strongly worded letter to FINA and its staff, officers and the FINA Bureau was addressed to FINA’s powerful Executive Director Cornel Marculescu and published and distributed by John Leonard, the Executive Director of the World Swimming Coaches Association. The letter is significant because Leonard was not only instrumental
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Courtesy of WOWSA, in Lapland Lake Semenovskoye, Russia. Athletes at the Olympics, world championships and major international events are required to gather in the ready room, a designated indoor or outdoor area or indoor room where the competitive swimmers gather before the race, often to listen to pre-race instructions from race officials or to store
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Courtesy of WOWSA in Lapland Lake Semenovskoye, Russia. Shelley Taylor-Smith was a great marathon swimmer: she competed on the pro marathon swimming circuit and a fast English Channel crossing, she completed unprecedented marathon swims, she coached and volunteered on hundreds of events around the world, she competed in events on five continents and served on
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Italy’s Salvatore Cimmino will attempt a 103-mile (168 km) solo freestyle crawl from Havana to Cuba across the Florida Strait sometime during his scheduled window of April-May 2016. Before he gets in the water, his physical condition requires that he do a bit more preparation than his fellow open
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The 2015 StarMile2.5 Nevis-St. Kitts Cross-Channel Swim on April 5th will serve the 13th annual Bente Weber Memorial Swim in the Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean Sea. The 4 km channel swim across the Narrows offers both a race and a challenge to open water swim enthusists and adventurers.
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Jim Cotton, one of the founders of the Waikiki Roughwater Swim and the Waikiki Swim Club, shared a tidbit of swimming history and its glorious past of helpful champions. “In the early 1970’s when we were getting the Waikiki Roughwater Swim started, Buster Crabbe, an Olympic champion who played
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Matthew Moseley reported that the world premiere of the documentary Dancing In The Water, a film by Wayne Ewing about swimming across Lake Pontchartrain in Louisiana, will be shown at the historic Prytania Theater on April 29th in New Orleans. “This is the night before the start of the
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