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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. SWIM Long Beach will hold its annual 100×100 set on December 24th in the Belmont Plaza pool in Long Beach, California Copyright © 2008 – 2014 by World Open Water Swimming Association
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Re-evaluate and re-energize. This is what many people around the world are doing about their health and other areas of their lives, from personal to professional. Some of those people are getting into open water swimming. And some of those open water swimmers are doing Chillswim events in the
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Year after year, the nominees for the World Open Water Swimming Man of the Year are always an heroic and very impressive group of individuals with exceptional exploits, histories and lifestyles. The inspirational group of 2014 World Open Water Swimming Man of the Year nominees include Adam Walker (Great
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Pool and open water swimmers trained this morning at the FINA World Aquatics Convention in Qatar with all kinds of new equipment. After listening to some of the world’s best coaches and viewing some of the latest training equipment, swimming enthusiasts were able to test all kinds of new
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. FINA announced it now has 207 members at its 2014 World Aquatics Convention in Qatar yesterday – more than the number of member nations in the United Nations. It continues to grow its FINA Family in myriad aspects: number of nations, number of events, and number of athletes. Copyright
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Julie Bradshaw [above] and Josh Heynes [below] cut through the flat calm waters around the world. Copyright © 2014 by World Open Water Swimming Association
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The 40 km course above is the course for the 3-day, 3-stage Lake Toba 120 km Super Swim relay, part of the famous Lake Toba Festival in Indonesia. Over 3 days, the 4-swimmer teams (2 females + 2 males) had each of their swimmers do one 10 km marathon
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The colors of the open water can be so vivid, dynamic and astoundingly beautiful. Copyright © 2014 by World Open Water Swimming Association
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The colors of the open water can be so vivid, dynamic and astoundingly beautiful. Copyright © 2014 by World Open Water Swimming Association
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Given the desert land where she was born and brought up, Bhakti Sharma of Rajasthan, India seems to be one of the least likely individuals to swim in extreme ends of the Earth. But the English Channel swimmer (13 hours 55 minutes in 2006) has completed all kinds of
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