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World Open Water Swimming Federation, a human-powered project
The GADD (GaddinAbtGarnish 2012) is back. “It is a meandering swim with 1 km, 3 km and 5 km options, something for everybody. It is not a race. This year, we have loads of novices again. Some swimmers from last September’s event are moving up a step to 3 km,” says Oswald Schmidt, the race […]
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Go with the flow and open water swimming is easier. Go against the flow (tides, currents) and open water swimming can be frustrating, tiring and an act of slow-motion progress. Purposefully going against the tides feels…well…satisfying to finish. Facing this ebb and flow is what 6 swimmers of the Chalkwell Redcaps will do in 6
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…their classroom is the ocean … we look at the ocean differently when we use it … listen below how Bruckner Chase frames the discussion at the BLUEMiND conference in the Outer Banks, North Carolina about the incredible potential of Samoan tradition. Chase talks about merging this Fa’a Samoa with the ancestral knowledge of moving
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The Descenso a Nado Ría de Navia is one of the World’s Top 100 Open Water Swims. The popular race, now in its 55th edition, is held in northern Spain is annually held in August. It offers a 5 km men’s race, a 3 km women’s race, a 1.7 km masters race and a 1.1
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Brent Rutemiller wrote a commentary on FINA’s follow-up to the tragic death of Fran Crippen who died in a FINA 10K Marathon Swimming World Cup event in the United Arab Emirates in 2010. His commentary is posted here. Rutemiller‘s observation is that FINA has yet to legislate a standard on a maximum water temperature. In
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Some swimmers use butterfly the last few meters of their open water swims. Many swimmers roll over on their backs and do backstroke during their swims to relieve their shoulders and necks. Others switch over to breaststroke for a change of pace or to get a better view of what lies ahead. While all open
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In Portugal’s Setubal Bay this Saturday, Japan’s Yumi Kida will attempt to become the first Japanese athlete to qualify for the Olympic 10km Marathon Swim. A former world championship finalist in the 800m freestyle, the small-but-tenacious Kida has the speed and endurance to finish not only in the top 15 in order to qualify, but
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Japanese open water swimmers Yasunari Hirai and Yuto Kobayashi have a lot to face to in this Sunday’s 2012 FINA Olympic 10km Marathon Swimming Qualifier. Not only must they finish in the top 15 among 62 other men with similar dreams to qualify for the Olympic 10km Marathon Swim, but they must also face each
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This August 9th (women) and 10th (men) the marathon swims come to the Serpentine in Hyde Park at the 2012 London Olympics. This seminal event will be followed up in Copacabana Beach for the 2016 Rio Olympics. Copacabana Beach is, arguably, one of the few places on Earth that can showcase marathon swimming to an
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After holding its first few Olympiad swimming competitions in the open water (Aegean Sea at the 1896 Athens Olympics, Seine River in the 1900 Paris Olympics and a man-made lake in the 1904 St. Louis Olympics), the first marathon swim in Olympic history was held in 2008. The historic event took place in a 2+
First Beijing, Then London, Next Rio, Then…? Read More »