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Photography and reporting courtesy of Nuala Moore of Ireland. Elina Makinen led off a blazing fast 4 x 25m freestyle relay with the Viimsi Veeklubi relay at the recent Pirita Open, 2015 Estonian Winter Swimming Championships. Makinen, Henri Kaarma, Bruno Nopponen and Andres Olvik finished in 54.19 seconds over second-place Ujumise Spordiklubi in 54.50 seconds. […]
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Reporting and photos courtesy of Nuala Moore of Ireland. Elina Makïnen was non-stop at the recent Pirita Open, 2015 Estonian Winter Swimming Championships. She completed the 450m endurance swim in a quick 6 minutes 33 seconds. She completed 1,100m in 18 minutes. She led off the winning Viimsi Veeklubi relay team with Henri Kaarma, Bruno
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Robert McCormack is an American open water swimmer and author born in Brooklyn, New York. After actively participating in ocean swims between the ages of 26 and 41, he retired and later resumed his ocean swimming career in 2002 at the age of 64. Between traveling and training to
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Downstream: a history and celebration of swimming the River Thames is an illustrated book written by Caitlin Davies about the history of swimming in the River Thames. Published by the University of Essex, the book describes races in the Thames during Victorian times (1837-1901) and training in the Thames
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Information courtesy of Brenton Williams. Photo of PJ Duffy and Rudi Schoeman by Dirk Erasmus. Photo of Brenton Williams by Clive Wright. This last Saturday in South Africa, PJ Duffy, Rudi Schoeman, Iain Geddes, Kevin Grey, Brenton Williams, Richden Jute and Ralph West pioneered a rounding of Cape Recife, the most southeastern tip of the
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Ted Erikson, now 87, may be swimming a little less, less fast, and less often, but he is still one of the smartest people in the open water. Erikson submitted an essay (see abstract below) to FQXi in a contest to be rated by the general and technically-oriented public.
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. When we look at this photo above of a race start, our immediate impression is that this is a photo of a triathlon and not an open water swim. Why? It is just an uneducated guess, and we could be absolutely wrong, but we see the following hints why
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Swimmers and coaches can think in terms of macro time and micro time in preparing for the Olympic 10K Marathon Swim at the Tokyo Olympics
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Native fourth-generation San Franciscan photographer and long-time Dolphin Club member Colin Gift may be known for his open water imagery, but the talented artist also does work in numerous other fields and dozens of other clients. For a glimpse of his work, visit here. Copyright © 2015 by World
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Photo by Deep Blue Media. With the American swimmers purposefully not going to the FINA/HOSA 10km Marathon Swimming World Cup in Abu Dhabi on March 13th, most of the top open water swimming nations of the world are heading to the United Arab Emirates to compete in the race organized by Ayman Saad, the Egyptian
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