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Edie Hu And Adam Moss Cross The Palk Strait Courtesy of Edie Hu and Adam Moss, Palk Strait, Sri Lanka to India. Edie Hu and Adam Moss set off from Talaimannar Beach on the Sri Lanka mainland at 5:30 am on February 26th to head across the Palk Strait. The 29 km course started near […]
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Old School Breaststroking In The Open Water Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. When Frederik Jacques set a new breaststroke record crossing the English Channel in 13 hours 31 minutes in 2005, he broke the record of a fellow breaststroker from Belgium, Patrick Ghysel (14 hours 42 minutes). On the other side of the world,
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Melodee Nugent, Swimming Pain Free Courtesy of Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 52-year-old Melodee Nugent is a lifelong pool and marathon swimmer. In the 2019 Go The Distance U.S. Masters Swimming competition, she swam the most miles among women at 1,620 (2,607,000 meters) over the course of the year. Nugent swam
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Sarah Thomas To Inspire Others At END-WET Courtesy of Don Henderson, Grand Forks, North Dakota. Don Henderson kicked off his tenure as the new race director of the END-WET event in North Dakota in a huge way. While Henderson completed the 57.9 km END-WET swim down the Red River of the North in 2015 and
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Photo of Giannis Kotsiopoulos, 2016 Olympic silver medalist and world champion Spyros Gianniotis, Greek national federal technical coach Nikos Gemelos, Mayor of Istiaia-Edipsos Ioannis Kontzias by Andreas Papakonstantinou of Tourette Photography, Pefki, Greece. The Authentic Marathon Swim Skyllias & Hydna will be held on July 4th-5th at Pefki, Evia in Istiaia-Edipsos, Greece. The two-day event
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Kyra Wijnker Won 1000m Freestyle IISA World Cup Series Title Courtesy of Ram Barkai, International Ice Swimming Association. The 2020 IISA World Cup Series has concluded after a season where the world’s best ice swimmers and winter swimmers competed in Amsterdam (Netherlands), Vietsbroon (Germany) and Cheltenham (Great Britain). Ram Barkai, chairman of the International Ice
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Ailén Lascano Micaz Win 500m IISA World Cup Series Title Courtesy of Ram Barkai, International Ice Swimming Association. The 2020 IISA World Cup Series has concluded after a season where the world’s best ice swimmers and winter swimmers competed in Amsterdam (Netherlands), Vietsbroon (Germany) and Cheltenham (Great Britain). Ram Barkai, chairman of the International Ice
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Christof Wandratsch Sweeps 2020 IISA World Cup Series Titles In 500m, 1000m Freestyle Courtesy of Ram Barkai, International Ice Swimming Association. The 2020 IISA World Cup Series has concluded after a season where the ice swimmers competed in Amsterdam (Netherlands), Vietsbroon (Germany) and Cheltenham (Great Britain). Ram Barkai, chairman of the International Ice Swimming Association
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2020 Boston Frogman Swim Courtesy of WOWSA, Boston Harbor, Massachusetts. Nagle (1:09:11.2), Chris Jones (1:10:40.0) and David Swensen (1:12:36.8) went 1-2-3 at last year’s inaugural Boston Frogman Swim, a 5 km charity swim across Boston Harbor between East Boston and downtown Boston on June 7th. The event is part of the growing Frogman Swim Series includes the original Tampa Bay Frogman Swim in Florida. Frogman
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Focus In October: Perhentian Island Marathon Swim Courtesy of Mohammed Sofian Ismail, Pulau, Perhentian Besar, Malaysia. Will Sweden’s Fredric Liljestrom and Sheryl Lyn Slater defend their record-setting times (of 3 hours 35 minutes and 4 hours 1 minute) this year on October 10th at the Perhentian Island Marathon Swim, a 16 km circumnavigation swim held
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