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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. It seems records are being set and broken with greater and greater frequency in the sport of marathon swimming. On the high end of the scale, it was only a few years ago that Great Britain’s Dr. Roger Allsopp set the record for the oldest swimmer to cross the […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. 30 swimmers from 17 countries competed in today’s 49th edition of the Maratona del Golfo Capri-Napoli where Vitaliy Khudyakov of Kazakistan won the overall 36 km sea marathon: 1. Vitaliy Khudyakov (Kazakistan) 6:11.27 2. Evgenji Pop Acev (Macedonia) 6:12.39 3. Joanes Hedel (France) 6:12.45 4. Bertrand Venturi (France) 6:12.55
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. 30 swimmers from 17 countries competed in today’s 49th edition of the Maratona del Golfo Capri-Napoli. As expected, former 25 km marathon swimming champion Ana Marcela Cunha of Brazil won the 36 km sea marathon, finishing ninth overall and setting a new women’s course record in the process: 1.
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Courtesy of Kurt Oeler from Lake Michigan, Illinois. Adam Dawkins and Adrienne Bicek claimed top honors at Saturday’s Big Shoulders 5K, besting a field of 800 racing along Chicago’s chilly, choppy Lake Michigan shoreline. A notch better than 2013’s runnerup finish, Dawkins finished 2 laps in a relatively slow 1:04:32. A year ago under better
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Information courtesy of Gergely Csurka in Lake Balaton, Balatonfured, Hungary. Photo by the Hungarian Swimming Association. Russia won the Junior (ages 17-18) team category at the 2014 FINA World Junior Open Water Swimming Championships. The point totals combine the boys and girls cumulative races in the 7.5 km solo distance and 3 km team distance.
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Information courtesy of Gergely Csurka in Lake Balaton, Balatonfured, Hungary. Photo by Aniko Kovacs. China won the Youth (ages 14-16) team category at the 2014 FINA World Junior Open Water Swimming Championships in Lake Balaton, Hungary. The point totals below combine the boys and girls races in the 5 km solo distance and 3 km
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Information courtesy of Gergely Csurka in Lake Balaton, Balatonfured, Hungary. China continues to showcase its navigational IQ and open water swimming prowess on the third day of the 2014 FINA World Junior Open Water Swimming Championships in Lake Balaton, Hungary. Its youth (ages 14-16) team of Jintong Yang, Zhongyi Qiao, Siyu Yan won the 3
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Information courtesy of Gergely Csurka in Lake Balaton, Balatonfured, Hungary. Hungary is proving its navigational IQ and open water swimming prowess on the third day of the 2014 FINA World Junior Open Water Swimming Championships in Lake Balaton, Hungary. Its junior (ages 17-18) team of Attila Kiss, Nikoletta Kiss, and Ádám Orosz won the 3
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The second edition of the Chillswim Coniston 5.25 mile event was held yesterday under gorgeous conditions. A sold-out crowd of 520 swimmers completed swimming the full length of Coniston in the Lake District of England. “There is a nice video news report by Fiona Marley Paterson of the Chillswim
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Karen Smidt-Allard is one sharp aquapreneur with a clear vision of what products are necessary and desirable by swimmers and triathletes. Her original Foggle product, a popular anti-fog cleaning towelette sold by SBR Sports, is now rebranded as FOGGIES. FOGGLE was nominated for the 2012 World Open Water Swimming
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