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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Adam Walker was recently appointed as the Ambassador of Royal Life Saving Society in order to help promote open water swimming safely. Walker is continuing his push to recruit more and more people to join the sport, both in his native England and as far away as Tunisia and […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The FINA Extraordinary Congress is a special meeting held by the highest ranking officials and administrators in FINA. Proposals are discussed, growing trends and new technologies are discussed, and rule changes are approved by designated delegates from FINA’s 155 member federations. There was one rule change for the open
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Doug Woodring is inviting only swimmers with confidence and dare to the 3rd Annual Cold Half & Cold Standard Extreme Marathon Swim on January 24th 2015. “The race is a 15 km solo or two-person team event modeled after Asia’s top extreme ocean swim, the Clean Half…except the water
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Allan Lopes Mamédio do Carmo of Brazil, the winner of the FINA 10km Marathon Swimming World Cup, joined his teammate Ana Marcela Cunha as the FINA World Open Water Swimmers of the Year. Allan Lopes Mamédio do Carmo was also nominated for the 2014 World Open Water Swimming Man
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Ana Marcela Cunha received FINA’s Open Water Swimmer of the Year at a very festive and packed gala dinner at the FINA World Aquatics Convention in Doha, Qatar tonight. This was her second time to win the award after her first honor in 2010. During the 2014 FINA 10K
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Today in front of representatives from over 160 countries, Petar Stoychev and Britta Kamrau shone like international stars at the 2014 World Aquatic Convention in Doha, Qatar. Copyright © 2014 by World Open Water Swimming Association
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. During the 650th year anniversary of Cascais, a long week of oceanic celebration will be held. There will be a new race on June 7th on the Portuguese coastline. The day after, World Ocean Day will be held as well as the Plasticity on the 9th-10th. The Economist’s World
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The Cold Half 2015, set for Jan 24th 2015, is open for registration. “Spots are limited this year,” explains race director Doug Woodring, “So please send in your forms as early as possible.” There are a handful of athletes who wish to replicate the Sub-32 Marathon Club (or Sub-3
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Video courtesy of Ocean Navi across the Tsugaru Channel in Japan. Aya Iwata, Yukichi Usui, Ikuko Ono, Yasuo Naito, Hiroko Hachinoe and Peter Turberfield completed a 6-person Tsugaru Channel crossing from Honshu to Hokkaido in 9 hours 51 minutes in Japan. The team escorted by Captain Mizushima landed on Hokkaido’s Shirakami Misaki after swimming south
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Back in 1969, Austrian adventurer Klaus Pechstein attempted to swim 1,231 km (765 miles) in an assisted (wetsuit) stage swim along the entire length of the Rhine River from Switzerland to the Netherlands. He made a valiant attempt in an earlier era, but he was forced to abandon his
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