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Courtesy of Hansjörg Ransmayr, Vienna, Austria. Hansjörg Ransmayr, a promoter of white water swimming, recently swam the white water channel in Vienna in his native Austria. And he has great audacious plans to organize a race in the same venue this coming September. Whitewater swimming is a discipline of open water swimming where an individual […]
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Alisa Fatum Wins 500m At Ice Swimming Championships Photo of Alisa Fatum courtesy of Martin Tschepe, Veitsbronn, Bavaria, Germany. Photo of Bárbara Hernández Huerta courtesy of Colin Hill, Murmansk, Russia. Alisa Fatum is on a roll. After recently setting the Ice Kilometer world record, the 24-year-old German is the heavy favorite at the International Ice
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Paul Georgescu Wins 500m World Championship Courtesy of aimx ro, Murmansk, Russia. Paul Eugen Dorin Georgescu has been a success in various aquatic disciplines from channel swimming to water polo and coaching, but the 41-year-old from Romania won his first world title in the 500m freestyle at the International Ice Swimming Association 3rd World Championship
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Alisa Fatum Wins Ice Kilometer At World Championship Courtesy of WOWSA, Murmansk, Russia. Alisa Fatum already won the 500m freestyle on the first day of competition at the International Ice Swimming Association 3rd World Championship and 1st Ice Swimming Arctic Cup in Murmansk, Russia. Today, the 24-year-old German took it out fast in the Ice
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Petar Stoychev Wins Ice Kilometer At World Championship Courtesy of WOWSA, Murmansk, Russia. “I have covered Petar Stoychev for nearly 20 years and this was his most dominating performance in my opinion,” observed Steven Munatones. He has done many incredible swims in his life – from setting the English Channel world record to winning the
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Photo of Ciara Doran by Colin Lindsay at the 2019 IISA Ireland National Ice Swimming Championships when she set an Irish record in Armagh, Ireland. Ciara Doran is young, with many years of upside in the ice swimming world ahead of her. The 19-year-old won her first world title in the 200m freestyle at the
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Courtesy of Fazlul Kabir Sina, Bangla Channel, Bay of Bengal, Bangladesh. Fazlul Kabir Sina is the organizer of the International Bangla Channel Marathon Swim, a 16.1 km race across the Bangla Channel in the Bay of Bengal in Bangladesh. Kabir, along with Lipton Sarker and Salman Saeed, did the first successful crossing of the 16.1
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Courtesy of Maksym Polshcha, Kiev, Ukraine. The Desna 6.5 is a challenging 6.5 km river swim down the Desna river in Kiev, Ukraine. Maksym Polshcha describes the event, “It is like swimming the Bosphorus in Istanbul. It is the same distance with similarly strong currents, but there are a swimming cap, towel, pasta party, and
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Murmansk, Russia. With the water at 0.6°C (33°F), the man for all seasons – Petar Stoychev – may face his biggest career challenge to date. The former English Channel world record holder, the 2011 FINA 25 km world champion (in 32°C water), the 4-time Olympic swimmer, the 11-time victor of the Traversée
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Ram Barkai, International Ice Swimming Association, Murmansk, Russia. The International Ice Swimming Association 3rd World Championship and 1st Ice Swimming Arctic Cup 2019 continues today in Murmansk, Russia and continues through March 18th. Medical examinations started at 6:30 am. There were seven heats with 52 swimmers in the opening race, the 500m freestyle with a
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