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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Allan do Carmo [shown above] officially won the series title at the 2014 FINA 10K Marathon Swimming World Cup with a close second to Christian Reichert at the FINA season-ending race in Hong Kong today. The race was close as usual and featured the fierce emerging rivalry of Brazil […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. There are few swims around the world that are as tropically beautiful and challenging as El Cruce (see more here). Rafa Hernández has really made El Cruce special. The annual event held in April attracts nearly 800 competitors from 15 to 70 years to its 9.5 km sea swim
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. “So far, so good.“ That is the general global consensus of how the world’s sporting community and the International Olympic Committee views the two successful Olympic 10K Marathon Swims to date. After two flat-water loop courses at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games (Shunyi Olympic Rowing-Canoeing Park) and the 2012
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Annaleise Carr started July 25th on her attempted 75 km Lake Erie swim from the American shores at Erie’s Presquile Point in the state of Pennsylvania. Eventually, she cut her unprecedented swim short, finishing the first 42.2 km around midnight at Long Point in Ontario, Canada 22 hours 20
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. 49-year-old Susan Simmons took 33 hours to swim 70 km on August 23rd in a two-way crossing of Cowichan Lake in British Columbia, Canada. In late October, 29-year-old Chloë McCardel will attempt to swim 128 km course between her start from the southern tip of Eleuthera and her anticipated
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Rachel Sims (known as Rae Sims) was one of the individuals who completed the 2.5 nautical mile swim from Stokes Bay to Ryde Sands as part of the Solent Swim Challenge in aid of the Ellen MacArthur Cancer Trust on the Isle of Wight. “Sims only took up open
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Arwad – located in the Mediterranean Sea – is the only inhabited island in Syria. Surrounded by water, it makes sense that this island with only a few thousand residents helped shaped the roots of one of the greatest marathon swimmers of the Middle East – whose life was
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Team Brazil was very impressive in Chun’an, China at last weekend’s second-to-last stop on the 2014 FINA 10K Marathon Swimming World Cup. Of the 93 swimmers (48 men and 45 women), the Brazilians stood out like they want to at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games on Copacobana Beach. Not
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Courtesy of Mackenzie Miller from Huntington Beach, California. Never Give Up. That what 16-year-old Annaleise Carr keeps in mind when swimming across a treacherous body of water known as Lake Erie, determined to raise money for Camp Trillium, a resource center that cares for children with cancer. In 2012, Annaleise Rebekah Carr was named World
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Annaleise Carr started at 5:18 am in the early morning of July 25th, 2014 on her attempted 75 km Lake Erie swim from the American shores at Erie’s Presquile Point in the state of Pennsylvania. Eventually, she had to cut her unprecedented swim short, finishing around midnight at the
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