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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Safe Harbor Swimmers are often swimming “for the oceans” or participating in events to “save the oceans.” Their environmental awareness is passionate, but concrete actions seem to be less well-defined. What can and should an environmental-conscious swimmer do to help save the oceans? “There are so many things people […]
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Aquapreneurs Daniel Takata Gomes, Guilherme Freitas and Patrick Winkler of Brazil won the 2012 World Open Water Swimming Offering of the Year for The Swim Channel Magazine. Takata is a statistician, professor and reporter of pool and open water swimming. He has won three consecutive FINA Aquatics World Magazine
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. There is a certain amount of misinformation and myths reported in the media and widely believed by parents, coaches and athletes in the open water swimming world. Occasionally, it is difficult for the newcomer to distill fact from fiction, reality from rumor, especially if they do not ask the
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Alex Meyer, And Lydsy Heister Both the American Meyer and Dutch Heister won the 25 km race at the 2010 FINA World Open Water Swimming Championships in Roberval, Canada. Copyright © 2016 by World Open Water Swimming Association
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Evgeny Bezruchenko: You have done this race since the very beginning. Has the race become easier? How the race become faster? What was the hardest year? Why? Keri-Anne Payne: How was your overall experience in Rio? Can you describe the Olympic 10K race? Are you planning to compete in
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The Toronto Island Lake Swim is a multi-distance open water swimming competition in Toronto, Canada. It has events of 750m, 1.5 km and 3.8 km in distance and is part of the Canadian Open Water Swim Series and the Canaqua Sports Open Water Swim Series. Over 55,000 have watched
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. When watching the Olympic finalists on Copacabana Beach during the Olympic 10K Marathon Swim, these will be the swimmers’ race numbers: 1. Jordan Wilimovsky, USA 2. Ferry Weertman, NED 3. Spyridon Gianniotis, GRE 4. Sean Ryan, USA 5. Jack Burnell, GBR 6. Marc-Antoine Daniel Frede Olivier, FRA 7. Simone
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How did Sharon Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Copyright © 2016 by World Open Water Swimming Association