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Wes Nolan Describes His Open Water Journey On WOWSA Live Sponsored by KAATSU Global, Huntington Beach, California. Wesley Nolan, a former water polo player who represented Ireland internationally at the Deaf Olympics and the European Championships, was inspired to try the sport of open water swimming. The 42-year-old father of three (soon to be four) […]
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Karen Burton Talks About Swimming Around The World On WOWSA Live Sponsored by KAATSU Global, Huntington Beach, California. Karen Reeder, née Burton took a trip down memory lane during today’s WOWSA Live interview. The International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame Honor Swimmer and Air Force Academy graduate from Colorado described her professional marathon swimming career
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Small Group Clubhous Swims 2020 Courtesy of Phil White, Lake Memphremagog, Vermont. On June 27, Kingdom Games kicked off its radically redesigned summer of Small Group Socially Distanced Open Water Swimming. Nine swimmers and nine kayakers swam various distances out and around Bell Island, Black Island, and Cove Island. The swim was held in conformity
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Old-School Canadian Professional Race Posters Courtesy of Daniel Vizeu Costa Couto. Le Marathon du Saguenay was a 45 km professional marathon swim held on the Saguenay River from Chicoutimi to Bagotville in the Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean region of Quebec, Canada. The event was sanctioned by the World Professional Marathon Swimming Federation in the 1960s and 1970s. The
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The top Egyptian marathon swimmers in the 1950’s and 1960’s were certainly larger than life and competed with – and beat – the best in the world.
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Thomas Pembroke On The Ability To Do More On WOWSA Live Sponsored by KAATSU Global, Huntington Beach, California. On August 29th 2013, Darren Miller completed a 35 km crossing of the North Channel from Northern Ireland to Scotland in 11 hours 16 minutes at the age of 30 to achieve the Oceans Seven. At the
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Cameron Castro Tops First Global Swim Series Virtual Race #1 Courtesy of Global Swim Series. The Global Swim Series is hosting a number of Virtual Races. Virtual Race #1 was held on June 15th 2020 with the top swimmers posted below. Dylan Kent explains, “With open water swimming races cancelled around the world due to
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Sponsored by KAATSU Global, Huntington Beach, California. Ted Erikson took a trip down memory lane during today’s WOWSA Live program where he described his marathon swims in the Lake Michigan, English Channel, and the Farallon Islands including one of his most audacious racing moves, one of the greatest in open water swimming history. The 92-year-old
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Katie Rowe is an ocean swimmer and Hollywood stuntwoman who describes her career on WOWSA Live.
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Aiming For The Sky While Swimming In The World’s Oceans Courtesy of Sky News, English Channel. Lewis Pugh is a great storyteller. The United Nations Patron of the Oceans and International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame Honor Swimmer uses the world’s waterways to help tell his story while making appeals to government leaders to protect
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