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World Open Water Swimming Federation, a human-powered project
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Ian Conroy‘s daughters, 16-year-old Olive and 18-year-old Mollie, participated in the training offered by the Camlough Water Festival Committee held at Wild Water Armagh. Conroy reflected on their training. “I was at all the training sessions with them as part of their recovery team. From the outset, I was […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. FINA announced that Budapest, Hungary will replace Guadalajara, Mexico as the host city of the 17th FINA World Championships and FINA World Masters Championships in July 2017. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and the President of the Hungarian Swimming Federation Tamas Gyarfas [shown on left] worked to led the
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Simon Griffiths of H2Open Magazine penned a thoughtful and introspective article on Why our choice of words matters to our fellow swimmers (see here). Griffiths explains in his article about how he reflected on the use of the term, disabled swimmer. “The preferred wording is ‘swimmer with a disability’
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Wearable electronic devices that transmit information to the swimmer beyond the time of day and elapsed time are considered to be performance-enhancing equipment by the rules of the Marathon Swimmers Federation because these types of nonstandard equipment benefits the swimmer’s speed, buoyancy, heat retention, or endurance. But even if
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Jamie Patrick began his announcement with his signature passion, “It is with great excitement that I announce my next big adventure. After months of planning I will once again return to the water.” “…return to the water…” sounds similar to Kevin Murphy’s definition of his own marathon swims, “…going
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. We posted an article on a swimmer, Alireza Jaff – Shwan known as Dukan’s Dolphin who has captured local media attention. This was his sister’s response to A Youthful Calm Amid The Storm: “I am Alireza’s oldest sister. We are from Kurdistan and unfortunately the facilities of swimming aren’t
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Courtesy of Nuala Moore. Like Ireland’s Sandycove among Channel swimmers, like Cape Town for pioneer swimmers, Tallinn, like Perth for competitive ocean swimmers, Estonia has developed into an epicenter of a niche in the open water swimming world. The Prita River is the venue where many accomplished cold water swimmers emerge. The 6th Pirita Open
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The tradition lives. As Stewart Evans volunteered for Ted Erikson’s swim from the Farallon Islands in 1967, Ned Denison has encouraged contemporary marathon swimmers to volunteer in greater numbers for everything in the open water swimming community ranging from local events to solo crossings. With plenty of veterans showing
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. El Sharko (aka Chris Blakeslee) and Suzie Dods are leading a forum about distance swimming in San Francisco on March 21st at 2 pm at the Sports Basement in San Francisco, California. El Sharko describes the forum, “Have you ever thought how fun it would be to swim for
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Photos courtesy of Ricardo Figueredo. Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Arturo Santos and Ignacio “Nacho” Bussy pioneered a new crossing from the Punta de la Salina peninsula to Isla de Lobos in Uruguay, a 9.5 km swim that took 3 hours 15 minutes after swimming across strong currents. Santos and Bussy started from the
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