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Winter Swimming In China Courtesy of Roman Karkachev, Taierzhuang, China. Snow + swimming = winter swimming. The International Winter Swimming Association is offering an 8-day event for 550€ that covers the 6th International Winter Swimming Festival on the Grand Canal and the 8th Winter Springs-swimming International Invitational on Daming Lake that serves as the 3rd […]
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Write On, Elaine Howley Courtesy of WOWSA, Boston, Massachusetts. From Captain Matthew Webb and Gertrude Ederle to Sarah Thomas and Ross Edgley, Elaine Howley is among open water swimming’s most prolific writers and foremost historians. Howley promotes open water swimming, its history and its luminaries in a highly educational, easy-to-read manner via her numerous articles
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Bob Burnside Leaves A Huge Wake As His Legacy Courtesy of Swimming World Magazine. California waterman and famed lifeguard Bob Burnside passed away on December 10th at the age of 87. Burnside was the Founding President of the United States Lifesaving Association and 2014 Paragon Award / Aquatic Safety recipient whose legacy is huge throughout
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David Aubry Gearing Up To The 2020 Tokyo Olympics Courtesy of WOWSA, Odaiba Marine Park, Tokyo Bay, Japan. The Olympic 10K Marathon Swim at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games is scheduled to be in the very warm, very flat, tranquil Odaiba Marine Park in Tokyo Bay. For fast distance swimmers accustomed to racing in a
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Cor de Bruin Passes After A Lifetime Of Service Courtesy of Richard Broer, IJsselmeer, Netherlands. Before he passed away earlier today in his native Netherlands, Cor de Bruin helped organize 25 of the last 50 races across the IJsselmeer. Richard Broer tells of his work, “Cor was one of the pillars for the continuity of
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Kevin Murphy (on left) and Michael Read (on right) On Becoming A Marathon Centurion Courtesy of Ned Denison, International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame. Ned Denison completed 1 million swimming meters (621 miles or 1000 km) yesterday for 2019. It was the eighth year of the last nine which he accomplished his annual swimming target.
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Elizabeth Almond, Driving Herself And Others In The Open Water Courtesy of WOWSA, Lake Lanier, Georgia. 46-year-old Elizabeth Almond from Georgia completed the Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming in 84 days, the 7th fastest period to complete a crossing of the English Channel, a crossing of the Catalina Channel, and a circumnavigation swim around
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Alisa Fatum, The Woman To Watch In The Ice Photo courtesy of Martin Tschepe, Veitsbronn, Bavaria, Germany. With the 6th Ice Swimming Aqua Sphere German Open & IISA® World Cup coming up on January 4th-6th 2020 in Veitsbronn, Germany, eyes will be on Alisa Fatum who was on a tear during 2019. At the January
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Together, We Are An Ocean Courtesy of Adam Walker, Tsugaru Channel, Japan. Japanese writer Ryunosuke Satoro once wrote, “Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.” American actress Drew Barrymore once said, “I pray to be like the ocean, with soft currents, maybe waves at times. More and more, I want the consistency
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Toy Balloons For Open Water Swimmers Courtesy of William Mark Corporation. Mark Forti and Blake English won the 2011 TAGIE toy inventors’ award for their AirSwimmers, the 2012 Gift of the Year. For more information, visit here. Copyright © 2008 – 2019 by World Open Water Swimming Association
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