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FINA World Championships 10 km Men’s Start List – 2020 Tokyo Olympics Qualifier Photo of world champion and 3-time Olympic medalist Ous Mellouli, courtesy of FINA, Yeosu EXPO Ocean Park, Gwangju, South Korea. On July 16th at the Yeosu EXPO Ocean Park in South Korea, it is going to be a dogfight among 3 Olympic […]
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FINA World Championships 10 km Women’s Start List – 2020 Tokyo Olympics Qualifier Photo of world champion and two-time Olympian Ana Marcela Cunha, courtesy of FINA, Yeosu EXPO Ocean Park, Gwangju, South Korea. On Sunday, July 14th at the Yeosu EXPO Ocean Park in South Korea, 15 Olympians and dozens more will be fighting for
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Nicolas Knap Across The Strait Of Gibraltar Courtesy of Asociación Cruce a Nado del Estrecho de Gibraltar, and Ben Walsh, Spain – Morocco. After a 14-year absence from the swimming scene, Nicolas Knap has returned to the open water. The swimmer from Québec City was a member of the French national open water swimming team from
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FINA World Championships 5 km Men’s Start List Courtesy of FINA, Gwangju, Korea. The race among the men who will compete in the opening 5 km race in Yeosu Expo Ocean Park at the 2019 FINA World Championships is wide open. Most of the top men, with exceptions like Kristof Rasovszky [shown above], have opted
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Aurélie Muller Making Her Comebacks Courtesy of WOWSA, Gwangyu, South Korea. Aurélie Muller is a 29-year-old professional marathon swimmer originally from Sarreguemines, France. The two-time Olympian and world champion has been training the last few years under renowned coach Philippe Lucas at Cercle des Nageurs Narbonnais. Since winning both the both 400m and 1500m freestyle events at the 2006 European Junior Championships
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Jeremy McClure And Other Record Holders to Rottnest Island Courtesy of Rottnest Channel Swim Association, Rottnest Island, Western Australia. When Gerd von Dincklage-Schulenburg first swam from the shores of Western Australia to Rottnest Island, he kicked off the most popular competitively swum channel in the world – the 19.7 km Rottnest Channel. 307 solo swimmers,
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FINA World Championships 5 km Women’s Start List Courtesy of FINA, Gwangju, Korea. The women who will compete in the opening 5 km race in Yeosu Expo Ocean Park at the 2019 FINA World Championships are the best of the best, the fastest of the fastest. And that includes Eva Fabian who had previously represented
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Swimming To, From, And Around Rottnest Courtesy of WOWSA, Rottnest Channel. “There are some contemporary prolific swimmers who I associate with certain channels around the world.” Steven Munatones commented, “Like Chloë McCardel in the English Channel, Hank Wise in the Catalina Channel, and Caroline Block in the North Channel. Even though these swimmers have done
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Swimming La Perouse Channel Courtesy of Alexander Brylin, Sakhalin, Russia. Alexander Brylin is organizing the International Swim across the La Pérouse Channel, an unprecedented 2-stage 42.8 km international relay between Sakhalin, Russia and Hokkaido, Japan in September. Brylin explains the preparations for the 20+ person relay across La Pérouse Strait, “We studied the currents from
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Swimming In The 1870’s In Paris Courtesy of Tim Johnson, History of Open-Water Marathon Swimming. Captain Tim Johnson, PE discusses pools in his book, History of Open-Water Marathon Swimming. “The scene of the swimming bath in Paris is from the pages of Harper’s Weekly, drawn by Simon Durand. The pool is crowded so that you
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