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Brian Patterson captured the Strait of Gibraltar swim by Jamie Patrick, Jen Schumacher, Oliver Wilkinson and Darren Miller. The four friends went stroke-for-stroke in a 4-wide for 3 hours 44 minutes across the Strait, piloted by Rafael Gutiérrez Mesa, the president of the Asociación de Cruce A Nado Del Estrecho De Gibraltar (Strait of Gibraltar […]
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National Geographic Channel will broadcast the Enigma Man on Thursday, May 10th at 7 pm across the United States. The entertaining and educational show features an open water swimmer with a highly developed, extraordinarily unusual physical and psychological profile. The show will also start airing in Australia on May 21st. Then, the rest of the
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For those interested in viewing NBC’s coverage in the United States of the Olympic 10 km Marathon Swim from the 2012 London Olympic Games, you can receive alerts here for the women’s race on August 9th and here for the men’s race on August 10th. For the first time in Olympic history in the United
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Three-time Olympic gold medalist Sandy Neilson-Bell, race director of the Money Box Cap 2k Swim, held the 10th annual race and pledge swim sanctioned by the American Swimming Association on May 5th in Lady Bird Lake in Austin, Texas. Ted Singley of Southlake Carroll won in 24:50 followed by his Southlake Carroll teammate Jonathan Roberts
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Ray Gandy is hooked. After completing the English Channel in 2009 in 13 hours 34 minutes, he found and felt he had a lot more marathon swims left in him to complete after reaching the summit of the channel swimming world. On July 14th, Gandy will attempt an unprecedented 50-mile double crossing of Lake Memphremagog
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The Olympic 10 km Marathon Swim was accepted as a medal event by the International Olympic Committee in 2005. With a successful launch at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, the sport was granted at least two more opportunities to showcase its athletes at the 2012 London Olympic Games and the 2016 Rio Olympic Games. And
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American athletes eligible for the 2013 Maccabiah games can obtain online applications for the American 19th World Maccabiah Games Swim Team for both the open and junior teams. The 2013 Maccabiah games in Israel during July will feature 3 different open water swimming competitions in the Kinneret (Sea of Galilee): a 1.5 km race, a
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In May 2011, Bruckner Chase completed a historic 9-mile swim from Aunu’u to Utulei in Amerika Samoa. He was honored by High Talking Chief Fuiava and the village of Aunu’u with the honorary matai title, Uila o le Sami (“Lightning in the Ocean” in English). When asked by the Governor if there was a means
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Anna Wardley, given the opportunity to be a part of the 2012 London Olympics and cover the sailing and windsurfing events for the duration of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, adjusted her Five Island Swim Challenge. “I was offered by London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games a position working on the London
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Open water swimmers come in all shapes, sizes and ages. They are from all walks of life, but commonalities reign among those living the open water swimming lifestyle: 1. Your bicycle only has one gear. 2. Your running shoes cost less than your cheapest swimsuit. 3. You own more goggles than the number of years
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