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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. After a long week of supporting, training with and cheering on their pool swimming teammates, the open water swimmers from Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Japan, Malaysia, the United States, and Hong Kong were looking forward to culminating the 2014 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships. It is always very tough for […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Five swimmers in Ireland completed their Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming and were celebrated in Cork, Ireland this weekend. The accomplished quintet included Fionnuala Walsh from County Clare and Ciaran Byrne, Ned Denison, Eddie Irwin and Gábor Molnár from Sandycove Island, County Cork. The kickoff in an Irish
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Photo courtesy by Rolando Marques of the 9 finishers of the Canal Faial-Pico, an 8.3 km (5.2-mile) channel that separates the islands of Faial and Pico in the Azores. “For me, [the crossing] was to achieve a dream since I am an amateur, someone who simply loves the sea and swimming in all its aspects.
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Check out some really cool imagery here. Copyright © 2014 by World Open Water Swimming Association
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Photos courtesy of Ashley Tapley and reporting courtesy of Kimberly Rutherford. Scott Tapley is an ice swimmer and channel swimmer from Rio Del Mar, Aptos, California. He belongs to the Half Century Club twice over with an Anacapa Channel crossing in 2013 and a Catalina Channel crossing completed last week. His fellow ice swimmer and
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Nadine and Christine Reichert are one of the many husband-and-wife teams on the global open water swimming circuit. The German pair compete on the FINA 10K Marathon Swimming World Cup and FINA Open Water Swimming Grand Prix professional circuits. But Nadine took time to give birth to their first
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. When people say women who do open water swimming are tough as nails, they are not exaggerating. Yet these women often possess a humble softness about them, a genuine sweetness. They know their unique talents and innate toughness are no match for Mother Nature. Katie Rowe [shown above in
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. As always, open water swimmers can Expect The Unexpected. If it isn’t the wind and chop, it is jellyfish and tides. If it isn’t something in the water, it is something on land. In the case of Beyond Avalon‘s unprecedented 76-mile (122 km) ocean relay from Catalina Island to
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Grace van der Byl did the second-fasting Catalina Channel crossing in history with her fast 7 hours 27 minutes in 2012. But the CarboPro-sponsored dynamo will be attempting a different kind of Catalina Channel crossing on Sunday when she paddles across the channel in the Catalina Classic Paddleboard Race.
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. 37-year-old Righardt Krugel from Cape Town, South Africa is planning a unique 360 km stage swim around Mallorca, Spain called the Mallorca 360º. “I started swimming from the young age of about 4 years. I competed nationally and internationally as a youngster, but gave up swimming when I left
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