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Angela Maurer Talks About Her Prolific Career On WOWSA Live Sponsored by KAATSU Global, Huntington Beach, California. Angela Maurer realized her childhood dream of becoming an Olympian…twice. She admitted that her race in London in Hyde Park was her optimal race – she could not swim one bit faster. That is only one small example […]
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Dr. Julie Bradshaw MBE talked about the unprecedented 126 km (78.2-mile) three-way crossing of Lake Taupo, the largest lake in New Zealand in 2009 on today’s WOWSA Live with Ned Denison. On January 6th, Chris Palfrey, Penny Palfrey and Julie Bradshaw organized two relay teams that set a world lake swimming record called the Taupo
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Julie Bradshaw MBE Talks About Inspiration, Motivation On WOWSA Live Sponsored by KAATSU Global, Huntington Beach, California. 14 hours 18 minutes of non-stop butterfly…across the English Channel. That is only one example of what Dr. Julie Bradshaw MBE has done in her lengthy marathon swimming and coaching career. International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame Honor
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Mermaid Merle For Maxim Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Dave Barra, the race director for New York Open Water and the 8 Bridges, 20 Bridges and 40 Bridges marathon swims around New York, is fond of saying, “Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.” Maxim, a publication that covers luxury travel, style & fashion, sports,
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Courtesy of Pablo Fernández Álvarez, Madrid, Spain. Pablo Fernández Álvarez set his third Guinness World Record after completing 25 hours swimming in a continuous-flow pool in a charity swim for COVID-19 research [see here]. There were over 60 media reports of the event that raised over €15,000 for the Red Cross fight against COVID-19 on
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Pablo Fernández Álvarez from Madrid, Spain participated in the Great Shark Swim
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Swimming Across Lake Ontario Courtesy of Tony Chisholm, Niagara-on-the-Lake Museum, Canada. Tony Chisholm has helped swimmers across Lake Ontario since 2008. He has worked with the Niagara-on-the-Lake Museum as a volunteer tour guide for 7 years and was Volunteer of the Year for the Town of Niagara-on-the-Lake in 2015. Previously, he helped his son Shaun
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Pilar Geijo Talks About Her Long Career On WOWSA Live Sponsored by KAATSU Global. Argentina has produced many storied marathon swimmers over the past several decades who have traveled around the world, including Antonio Abertondo, Damián Blaum, Alfredo Camarero, Pedro A. Candioti, Silvia Beatríz Dalotto, Diego Degano, Lilian Harrison, Horacio Iglesias, Carlos Larriera, Gustavo Oriozabala,
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Richard Broer Talks About Dutch Open Water Swimming On WOWSA Live Sponsored by KAATSU Global, Huntington Beach, California. International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame Honor Contributor Richard Broer talked about open water swimming in the Netherlands with International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame chairman Ned Denison on today’s edition of WOWSA Live. Broer, a psychologist
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Sponsored by KAATSU Global, Huntington Beach, California. British channel swimming icon and journalist Kevin Murphy has proven himself in the media and in the world’s waterways as a marathon swimmer over the last several decades. A young 22-year-old from the University of Southern California, Becca Mann is displaying similar talents with a published fiction book,
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