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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Thomas Lurz is on the rise. He won the bronze medal in the Olympic 10K Marathon Swim at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. He won the silver medal at the 2012 London Olympic Games. He is only missing a gold. It would be remarkable for the German star to capture […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Stillwater Sports announced a prize purse of R50,300 (US$4,371) for the inaugural Sanlam Cape Mile in February 2015. Together with sponsor Speedo South Africa, the new 2-race event (500m + 1.6 km) will be held at Eikenhof Dam at the Grabouw Country Club on February 14th 2015. “We are
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Tickets for the Pan American Games in Toronto went on sale today. The tickets are sold on a first-come, first-serve basis (see here). The Ontario Place West Channel will be site of the open water swims on July 9th and 11th. Copyright © 2014 by World Open Water Swimming
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Name the swimmers in the photo above [in the comment box below]. Hint: There are accomplished channel swimmers, marathon swimmers, professional marathon swimmers, ice swimmers and competitive swimmers as well as race officials and event organizers. Copyright © 2014 by World Open Water Swimming Association
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. After a long career as an open water swimmer and event organizer in the Netherlands, the renowned Marty Veen has been recognized by his peers and the marathon swimming community. Veen was voted into the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame as an Honour Administrator in its Class of
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. There has been no colder relay swim in history. International Relay Swim Across The Bering Strait was an unprecedented 6-day relay swim across the Bering Strait from Cape Dezhnev in Chukotka, Russia to Cape Prince of Wales in the state of Alaska, USA (via Big Diomede and Little Diomede
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The Jersey Long Distance Swimming Club, located on the isle of Jersey in the middle of the English Channel, is touted as “possibly the best little swimming club in the world“. While the reputation is well-deserved and well-known among the channel swimming community, the Jersey Long Distance Swimming Club
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The annual Irving Davids-Captain Roger Wheeler Memorial Award was awarded to FINA Bureau member Dennis Miller of Fiji for his contributions to marathon swimming, especially his vision to bring the 10 km marathon swim to the Olympic program. As a long-time member of the FINA Technical Open Water Swimming
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Evelyn and David Frantzeskou run a small secluded family-run award-winning holiday park in Folkestone, England. Varne Ridge Holiday Park, well-known among English Channel swimmers, sits near to the cliffs with panoramic views over the English Channel stretching out towards the coastline of France. Those views welcome swimmers from around
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Forrest Nelson does his swims quietly and under the cloak of darkness. But when he does his swims, it is always a major effort. Similar to his Mexican counterpart Antonio Argüelles Díaz-González, Nelson is a Renaissance Man in the marathon swimming world. Newly voted in the International Marathon Swimming
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