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Below is the start list for the women’s race. The start positions were randomly drawn at yesterday’s technical meeting. The women will line up at the start in these positions at 12 noon GMT today. Follow insider analysis and color commentary at @openwatersource and Olympic marathon swimming. 1. Angela Maurer (GER) 2. Erika Villaecija (ESP) […]
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The land and on-the-water security will be tight at today’s Olympic marathon swim. Follow the race via tweets here and color commentary by Open Water Source here. Copyright © 2012 by Open Water Source
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Expect The Unexpected – Risztov Éva Takes Marathon Gold Courtesy of WOWSA, Serpentine, London, UK. Expect the unexpected is the mantra of open water swimming and it was never more true than today. Risztov Éva of Hungary took control of the womens’s Olympic marathon swimming 10km during the second half and powered on to a
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Haley Anderson, a 20-year-old college senior at the University of Southern California, just missed out on the gold medal by 4 tenths of a second at today’s Olympic marathon swimming 10km in Hyde Park. Outsprinted at the end by Hungary’s Eva Risztov, Haley Anderson played to her strengths and
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Surprises – some pleasant, some shocking – reigned at the Olympic Marathon Swim in the Serpentine today. 1. Eva Risztov of Hungary (1:57:38.2) turned the tables on Haley Anderson who just touched her out at the Olympic Qualification Race in June – as well as the rest of the elite field in the 20°C water
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The 25 male finalists in the Olympic marathon swim in Hyde Park tomorrow at 12 noon GMT will line up on the starting pontoon in the following order. When watching the 25 marathon swimmers on television or online, the following numbers will be printed on the athlete’s hands, shoulders,
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Risztov Éva Takes It Out To Take Gold Courtesy of WOWSA, Serpentine, London, UK. Risztov Éva out-sprinted Haley Anderson for the gold in the Olympic marathon swim – winning by 4 tenths of a second in 1:57:38.2. The top women swam hard – the whole way. Risztov took it out hard and finished even harder.
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Alyssa Anderson wins a gold medal as part of the American 800m freestyle relay in the Aquatic Centre at the 2012 London Olympic Games. Then her younger sister, Haley Anderson, earns a silver in the 10K marathon swim. It has been a successful Olympics for Team Anderson whose family members traveled from northern California to
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Veljko Rogošić, A Croatian Legend Passes Courtesy of WOWSA, Split, Croatia. Last night in a hospital in Split, Croatia, legendary Croatian swimmer Veljko Rogošić passed away at the age of 71. An Honour Swimmer in the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame and a shipyard technician by trade, Rogošić nearly always found himself near the
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Kim Chambers became the 26th person and first New Zealander to successfully cross the length of Lake Tahoe last Sunday, finishing in 15 hours 30 minutes. Faced with an upset stomach early in the swim, the former ballerina still had enough in the tank to power through the lake high up at 6,225 feet (1,897
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