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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Anthony McCarley just can’t get enough. The busy executive from Pennsylvania has completed 80 miles of marathon swimming since June 28th. After today’s 7 hour 48 minute crossing of the 11-mile (18 km) Anacapa Channel off the shore of California , he recalls his journey. “87 total miles this […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Following along the courageous, hard-nosed wake of her Australian predecessors like Annette Kellerman, Susie Maroney, Linda McGill, Shelley Taylor-Smith, Tammy van Wisse, Melissa Cunningham, and Penny Palfrey, 29-year-old Chloë McCardel has the DNA and confidence of an extreme athlete. “The conditions are just about perfect,“ McCardel said about her
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Sharktoberfest was held on October 18th at the Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary in Crissy Field, San Francisco. The participants celebrated the return of the Great White Shark to the Gulf of the Farallones. There are few active channel swimming venues around the world that are as
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Linda Kaiser Swims The Eight Seas…Quietly, Courageously Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Swim a channel or complete an open water swim nowadays and many swimmers describe their achievement on the social media. There are, of course, exceptions to this norm where a handful of swimmers, renowned among the community of channel swimmers, do plenty
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Chalk up the 2-year delay to ObamaCare. The RCP Tiburon Mile took a year sabbatical off due to its organizer having to focus its core business on the new insurance regulations in the United States, but Bob Placak and crew are back at it planning for their US$10,000-winner-take-all 2015
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Triathlons and marathon runs do it very well. Either before, but usually after large triathlons or marathon runs, there are large crowded expos of products, services and companies that athletes and fans can enjoy browsing and shopping. Some open water swimming competitions have their own post-race expo, but most
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Courtesy of WOWSA at the feeding station on Lake Castaic at the 2014 USA Swimming National Open Water Swimming Championships. Copyright © 2014 by World Open Water Swimming Association
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Brazil is hot right now, especially with 25-year-old Allan do Carmo and 22-year-old Ana Marcela Cunha standing on top of the FINA 10K Marathon Swimming World Cup standings. Together with Poliana Okimoto, Brazilian swimmers are showing the open water swimming investments by Confederação Brasileira de Desportos Aquáticos (the national
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. It was only a matter of time before Anna Olasz of Hungary won a FINA 10K Marathon Swimming World Cup. The young Hungarian first showed her potential in local races on the European continent, but then really debuted among the world’s top echelon at the 2012 London Olympic Games
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Allan do Carmo expressed his heartfelt gratitude to his long-time coach Rogerio Arapiraca of Brazil. Over the last 8 years, the pair have been training and plotting to climb of the heap. Today, their dream was jointly realized as Do Carmo captured his first FINA 10K Marathon Swimming World
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