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Charlie Gravett, Vice President of the Jersey Long Distance Swimming Club provided the following report on the Round Jersey Relay. The Round Jersey Relay was a charity event – 3 years in the planning – on behalf of Holidays for Heroes Jersey, a charity that brings wounded servicemen and their families to the beautiful, mystic […]
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After the 2012 London Olympic Games, each country’s coaches and administrators take stock of the results and then plan again for the next Olympic quadrennial. While Tunisia (Ous Mellouli, gold), Germany (Thomas Lurz, silver), Canada (Richard Weinberger, bronze), Hungary (Eva Risztov, gold), USA (Haley Anderson, silver), and Italy (Martina Grimaldi, bronze) can build from podium
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Swimming Across The Channel On Warm Orange Juice Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. In the days of LORAN and when marathon swimmers around the world numbered in the dozens not in the thousands, a young group of beach city kids had dreams of swimming the Catalina Channel. “We trained all over the place in
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Big River Man Martin Strel will swim in Hudson today in an anniversary. “It has been 10 years since he swam down the entire length of the Mississippi River,” said his son Borut Strel. Tonight at 7:30 pm, his documentary Big River Man will have a special benefit screening with 100% of box office, plus
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East vs. west. North vs. South. Upstart vs. veteran. Male vs. female. Rivalries run rampant in any sporting community. But rivalries in the open water swimming world have a way to push individuals to step up their game and enable even more formidable accomplishments. In California, two marathon swimming groups – the Ventura Deep Six
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Channel swimmers are among the most exclusive club in the world. But even within this club, there is even more super exclusivity among the most accomplished aquatic adventurers in the world. The most exclusive niche within the club is the 3-way crossing group of the English Channel with Jon Erikson (38 hours 27 minutes in
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Dave Smith, a mechanical engineer from Point Loma, California completed his dream this summer. By successfully crossing the English Channel in 10 hours 52 minutes, his career spans both the Catalina Channel (9:22:24 in 2010) and the Manhattan Island Marathon Swim (8:03 in 2011). His trifecta led the mechanical engineer to become the 62nd member
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Cindy Walsh from San Diego, California became the second person from America’s West Coast mecca of marathon swimming to join the Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming. The manager of cardiovascular service at Sharp Memorial Hospital was a former age-group swimmer who turned her swimming skills toward the open water. After her triumphs in the
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Emily Brunemann and Michael Klueh are the fastest couple in the open water this side of Damián Blaum and Esther Nuñez and Christian and Nadine Reichert. The world-class swimmers, newly engaged, traveled together from Michigan to the Southern California coast and jumped in the pumping surf to win the 83rd annual Oceanside Pier Swim. Klueh
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In one of the most competitive and difficult ocean swims to win the overall title, Rhys Mainstone of Australia and Becca Mann of the USA proved themselves as young guns to look for during the 2016 Rio Olympics quadrennial. Mainstone and Mann won the overall titles at the 43rd annual Waikiki Roughwater Swim on Oahu
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