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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. While Anastasia Krapivina of Russia comfortably won the women’s division over local Karla Šitić at the 16 km Faros Maratón in Croatia, there was another interesting race within a race. This rivalry was father-daughter style. 44-year-old Dr. Josip Aralica and his 17-year-old daughter Lucija both swam the 39th edition […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. What is it with Xavier Desharnais this year? The Canadian marathon swimmer tied for first with Tomi Stefanovski at the 60th 32 km Traversée internationale du lac St-Jean in Quebec, Canada in July and then he ties for second with Ukrainian Vlodymer Voronko at the 39th 16 km Faros
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Matteo Furlan of Italy won the 39th annual 16 km Faros Maratón in Croatia today over Canadian Xavier Desharnais and Ukrainian Vlodymer Voronko who tied for second. 1. Matteo Furlan (Italy) 3:10:15 2. Vlodymer Voronko (Ukraine) 3:11:56 2. Xavier Desharnais (Canada) 3:11:56 4. Mark Deans (Scotland) 3:14:03 5. Adel
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. As a courtesy, Gary Cogorno, Scott McCarter, and Nuby Sears, organizers of the Laguna Beach Aquathon, always invite the President of the United States to their Aquathon in Southern California. Surprisingly in 1998, President Bill Clinton reportedly accepted their invitation to attend. “We were not allowed to make this
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Jacques Tuset took up the challenge laid down by Ned Denison and has now completed 5 Prison Island Swims. Some of the harshest incarceration of criminals in previous centuries was conducted on islands. Imprisonment to isolated islands was considered an effective way to remove incorrigibles from society. Banished to
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The crossing of Monterey Bay by a wetsuit-less, stinger suit-less swimmer has not been done since 1983 when the renowned Cindy Cleveland first pioneered the 25-mile course. Similar its Northern California cousin, the Farallon Islands, the Monterey Bay was daunting and dangerous – and had defeated all bioprene swimmers
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Ray Sani, a member of the Open Water Swimming Committee of the Indonesian Swimming Federation (PRSI or Persatuan Renang Seluruh Indonesia), will not come to Scotland for the 2014 Global Open Water Swimming Conference. But he wrote some heartfelt words to thank those who helped the PRSI become successful
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Niko Kluyver has led an extraordinarily interesting life. Born in Curaçao in the Caribbean Sea, he moved at an early age to Suriname on the northeastern coast of South America. A gifted swimmer and water polo player, he was recruited to swim in the American state of Washington as
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Photos are courtesy of Kelvin Trautman. What he started on August 9th, Lewis Pugh finished yesterday. Lewis Pugh completed his seventh and final leg of his Seven Swims In The Seven Seas For 1 Reason yesterday. After swimming 20 km on three consecutive days in rough conditions in the
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. It is not often that swimmers can stop submarines. But the magic of aloha knows no bounds. At the annual Waikiki Roughwater Swim that goes from Kaimana Beach under Diamond Head volcano across Waikiki Bay, Atlantis Submarines – a popular tourist service for visitors to Hawaii – purposefully suspends
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