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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The Shonan Open Water Swimming (湘南オープンウォータースイミング) is one of the largest open water swimming competitions in Japan with 1,312 participants including 374 people who entered the 10 km island-to-island marathon swim. Held in Kanagawa Prefecture south of Tokyo, the annual event includes a 800m swim, 2.5 km swim, 5 […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The first Winter Swimming Championship in North America is a winter swimming competition sanctioned by the United States Winter Swimming Association (USWSA) in accordance with rules of the International Winter Swimming Association held in collaboration with Kingdom Games. The Championship will be held on February 21st-22nd 2015 in Newport,
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The United States Winter Swimming Association (USWSA) was recently established as a non-profit organization with the mission to promote the sport of winter swimming in the United States. “Winter swimming is extremely popular in countries with colder climates and competitions in Russia, the Czech Republic, Poland, Sweden, Finland, Latvia,
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. “Marathon swimming is one of the most dangerous and unheralded sports in the world,” opens CBS 60 Minutes Sports host Jeff Glor. “Among the obstacles…physical agony beyond comprehension.” This is what attracted America’s 60 Minutes to Cork, Ireland to capture the world’s most grueling swim training camp run by
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. 29-year-old marathon swimmer Chloë McCardel will attempt another record attempt across a 128 km course between her start from the southern tip of Eleuthera and her anticipated finish at the island of Nassau. She estimates the 79.5-mile stretch in the Bahamas will take up to 48 hours to complete.
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Channel swimmers do it. Marathon swimmers do it. Professional swimmers do it. Coaches do it all the time And so do evidently thousands of adult swimmers do it: Logging their miles swum during training in the pool and open water. But there are a select group of men and
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Photo courtesy of Tom Savage on the Isle of Wight. Photo shows some of the 60 volunteers, 21 kayakers, 9 escort boats, onshore support teams and 21 swimmers preparing for the Solent Swim Challenge from Stokes Bay to Ryde Sands in aid of the Ellen MacArthur Cancer Trust. Copyright © 2014 by World Open Water
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. 54-year-old Jim Barber and 47-year-old Victoria Rian, stalwarts from the Indianapolis (Indiana) open water swimming community, touched down near Sandy Beach on Oahu after swimming across the Molokai Channel in 14 hours 42 minutes. The tandem swimmers, veterans of the English Channel and Catalina Channel, started at 9:15 pm
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The prosthetic industry is coming out with all kinds of new, lightweight, mobile technologies and composite materials that emulate missing muscle and tendon function. Walking, running and cycling have all become easier and possible for many individuals with missing limbs. The technologies help individuals use lower metabolic energies, reach
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. In a country where many other land-based, ball-centric sports dominate the mindset of the general public and the news content, the LoneSwimmer.com blog of Donal Buckley stands alone. After winning the inaugural 2012 Irish Blog Awards for Best Sport and Recreation award, Buckley has been honored again as the
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