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Sponsored by KAATSU Global and WOWSA Live. Diary of a Double documents the year-long journey of Antonio Argüelles who will attempt a 67 km two-way crossing of the English Channel in July 2021 with escort pilot Michael Oram. In last week’s Diary of a Double episode on WOWSA Live, Argüelles answered a number of questions […]
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Courtesy of KAATSU Global, Huntington Beach, California. Maria Luisa Cabañero Sanchez de Leon is a Spanish swimmer – and her country’s first female firefighter – who was inducted in the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame in 2009 as an Honor Swimmer. In addition to her many swimming achievements, she also became Spain’s first female firefighter, starting in
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Courtesy of Risto Mattila for the Good News Network. Walk down Shakespeare Beach, a shingle beach in Dover, or up Terranea Beach in Rancho Palos Verdes, California at the end of a Catalina Channel crossing, and walking can be a bit tricky on the rocky shoreline. On Hailuoto Island, that is located between Sweden and
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Courtesy of Сергей Волков, Donetsk, Ukraine. Cold water swimmer Sergei Volkov from Ukraine explains how he makes his own pool, “This method is suitable for any water bodies and ice thickness. Before I start making a cut, I recommend choosing the right place where the cut will be done. This should not be far from
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Courtesy of Ivan Vranjes, Water Polo Cruise, Croatia. Ivan Vranjes and Mateo Jurić are water polo coaches and aquapreneurs who manages two projects, Water Polo Cruise and Swim Cruise in Croatia. The two partners in Water Polo Cruise reported, “Sisak, Petrinja and surrounding area was hit with a devastating 6.4 magnitude earthquake that destroyed many lives in an
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The annual WOWSA Awards honors the heroes and heroines in the World Open Water Swimming Man of the Year, Woman of the Year, Performance of the Year, Offering of the Year categories.
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Courtesy of Ger Kennedy, Southern Ocean, Antarctica. Antarctica 2020 International Swim is a series of ice swims and environmental swims held inside the Antarctic Circle (66°33′46.5″ south) that replicates and celebrates Lynne Cox‘s pioneering Antarctica 1.7 km swim in Neko Bay in 2002 and celebrates the 200-year anniversary of the discovery of Antarctica by Russian explorer Fabian Gottlieb Thaddeus von Bellingshausen with swims in the Bellingshausen Sea and the Weddell Sea, organized
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The 2020 WOWSA Awards were announced and includes 13 nominees from 11 countries in the World Open Water Swimming Man of the Year category.
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The 2020 WOWSA Awards were announced and included 12 nominees from 11 countries in the 2020 World Open Water Swimming Woman of the Year category.
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Courtesy of Pelin Çelik, Turkey. Turkish swimmer Deniz Kayadelen knows about being cold, stressed, and out of her comfort zone. She was part of Out of our Comfort Zone, a four-person relay across the English Channel in August 2019 with Raha Akhavan-Tabatabaei, Emre Deliveli, and Ayse Yasemin Bagana. She also participated in the 91.27 km Peace Route Swim, a 9-person relay swim between Girne on the
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