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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. In Tyumen, Admiral Konstantin Semyonovich Sidenko (Russian: Константин Семёнович Сиденко) accepted the 2013 World Open Water Swimming Performance of the Year award on behalf of all the swimmers and support personnel who participated in the Bering Strait Swim. Admiral Sidenko is a Russian admiral of the Eastern Military District […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Dwight Crum is the namesake for the Dwight Crum Pier-to-Pier Swim, the largest single open water swimming event on the West Coast of America. Held between the Hermosa Beach Pier and the Manhattan Beach Pier near the LAX International Airport, the event has grown to over 1,200 participants. Crum
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. “One morning, I went down to the docks at the South End Rowing Club in San Francisco to shoot a portrait of my friend,” explains 1996 Olympic swimmer Dan Kutler. “When we were done, I started taking pictures of the other swimmers. When I looked at them later, I
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. “One morning, I went down to the docks at the South End Rowing Club in San Francisco to shoot a portrait of my friend,” explains 1996 Olympic swimmer Dan Kutler. “When we were done, I started taking pictures of the other swimmers. When I looked at them later, I
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. “One morning, I went down to the docks at the South End Rowing Club in San Francisco to shoot a portrait of my friend,” explains 1996 Olympic swimmer Dan Kutler. “When we were done, I started taking pictures of the other swimmers. When I looked at them later, I
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. “One morning, I went down to the docks at the South End Rowing Club in San Francisco to shoot a portrait of my friend,” explains 1996 Olympic swimmer Dan Kutler. “When we were done, I started taking pictures of the other swimmers. When I looked at them later, I
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. SBR Sports is giving away athletic and aquatic prizes every day until New Year’s Day in its 15 day Countdown to 2015. “Submit your name and email to launch and spread the word about the products on our social media,” explains online maven Lexie Kelly. “Encourage your friends, family,
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. 24 swimmers from 8 states swam up and down the James River in Richmond, Virginia on October 4th. The pack was competing for US$5,000 in the Peluso Open Water’s “To the Bridge & Back” 10-mile river swim. There was a selection criteria that required an application that asked swimmers
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Dmitry Blokhin is one of the key organizers behind the First International Ice Swimming Association World Championship to be held in Semenovskoe Lake in Murmansk, Russia on March 20th 2015. The Championship will be held in combination with the Russian Open Winter Swimming Championship on March 21st-22nd. The Vice
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