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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Decades ago in the Québec hamlet of La Tuque in the middle of the Canadian summer, the world’s best professional marathon swimmers of the 1970s used to gather for the 2-person Le Marathon de 24 Heures de La Tuque. Tucked away in the green hillside, swimmers from all over […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The Totalsports XTERRA South African Championship presented by REHIDRAT® SPORT will offer an inaugural open water swim at the inaugural Sanlam Cape Mile at the picturesque Eikenhof Dam (Grabouw Country Club, Western Cape) on February 14th. “The Sanlam Cape Mile is great preparation for the Totalsports XTERRA Grabouw,” says
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The Athletic Club of Ioannina Poseidon (AO POSEIDON) focuses on swimming and running in northwestern Greece, about 450 km from Athens. Its team symbol, Poseidon (Greek: Ποσειδῶν), is one of the 12 Olympian deities of the pantheon in Greek mythology. His main domain is the ocean and called the
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Photo of Henri Kaarma, courtesy of Jacqueline McClelland at start of race at 3.1ºC. Copyright © 2015 by World Open Water Swimming Association
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Courtesy of the Across The Lake Swim, Kelowna, British Columbia. For more information, visit here. Copyright © 2015 by World Open Water Swimming Association
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Photo by Deep Blue Media. Results courtesy of FINA. Men’s results from the FINA/HOSA 10 km Marathon Swimming World Cup event at the La Patagones-Viedma (Maraton Patagones-Viedma International Open Water Swim) in Argentina are shown below. Italy swept the men’s and women’s podium at both the FINA/HOSA 10 km Marathon Swimming World Cup and the
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Courtesy of Great Salt Lake Open Water Marathon in Salt Lake City, Utah. For more information, visit on the 1-mile and 8-mile event here. Photo shows Orson Spencer, Open Water Swimming legend in Utah in 1941, being awarded first place in the Antelope Island To Black Rock Race (8 miles). Copyright © 2015 by World
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Photo courtesy of Lapresse. Results courtesy of FINA. Women’s results from the FINA/HOSA 10 km Marathon Swimming World Cup event at the La Patagones-Viedma (Maraton Patagones-Viedma International Open Water Swim) in Argentina are shown below. 1. Rachelle Bruni ITA 2:02:58.35 2. Kristel Kobrich CHI 2:02:59.25 3. Cecilia Biagioli ARG 2:03:09.54 4. Samantha Arevalo ECU 2:04:92.94
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The Stroke for Egypt event in the Red Sea began today. Nestled in the calm, warm waters off the coast of Sahl Hasheesh in Egypt, the 5 km open water swim was held this morning. A giant 2.5 km flag was unfurled along the Red Sea. The governor presided
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The body of missing swimmer Tristan Dennis was finally found floating in the water and has been recovered in Pietermaritzburg’s Midmar Dam. Divers from the South African Police Services located the body early on Tuesday morning, after which it was positively identified as 30-year-old Tristan Dennis who disappeared while
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