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Courtesy of Jean Craven, Madswimmer, South Africa. Lewis Pugh completed a solo swim from Dassen Island to Ysterfontein on the mainland of South Africa in 2 hours 35 minutes in 1993. 25 years later, Jean Craven, Emil Berning and Kieron Palframan completed a Madswimmer tandem two-way charity crossing to Dassen Island in 6 hours 6 […]
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Courtesy of 2017 Ice Swimming Aqua Sphere World Championships, Burghausen, Germany. Another very fast race anticipated in the International Ice Swimming Association 3rd World Championship and 1st Ice Swimming Arctic Cup this week will include the highly anticipated 200m freestyle event. The International Ice Swimming Association athletes are seeded as follows: 200m Freestyle Female Start
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Courtesy of Dmitry Blokhin, Deputy Chairperson of Murmansk City Sports Committee, International Ice Swimming Association 3rd World Championship. An intriguing race is anticipated at the International Ice Swimming Association 3rd World Championship and 1st Ice Swimming Arctic Cup in Murmansk, Russia: the 100m breaststroke. Not only will sisters Elina Mäkinen and Lotta Mäkinen (23) battle
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Courtesy of International Ocean Film Festival. When open water swimmers think of or talk about Jaws, they almost inevitably refer to the 1975 American movie by Steven Spielberg about a giant Great White Shark on Amity Island. When surfers think of or talk about Jaws, they almost inevitably refer to Peʻahi on the north shore
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Courtesy of Ram Barkai, Murmansk, Russia. Alexandr Brylin’s best swimming stroke is breaststroke – a stroke that has taken him all over the ice swimming world. Brylin will be one of the stars competing at the International Ice Swimming Association 3rd World Championship and 1st Ice Swimming Arctic Cup 2019 in Murmansk, Russia this month.
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Ice Swimming Hall Of Fame Inaugural Class Courtesy of Ned Denison, Ice Swimming Hall of Fame. The Ice Swimming Hall of Fame is an organization founded in 2018 by various representatives of the sport of ice swimming, led by Ned Denison. He explains, “The objective of the Ice Swimming Hall of Fame is to recognize
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Courtesy of Wyatt Song at the 1st Ice Swimming World Championships in Murmansk on March 20th 2015 where Evgeni Rabinovich (lane 1), Sergio Salomone (lane 2), Craig Lenning (lane 3), Christof Wandratsch (lane 4), Henri Kaarma (lane 5), Albert Sobirov (lane 7) and Eduard Khodakovski (lane 8) competed. The International Ice Swimming Association 3rd World
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International Marathon Swimming Hall of Famers Yuko Matsuzaki (Japan), Melissa Cunningham (Australia), Jaimie Monahan (USA) and Tamara Bruce (Australia) are shown above at yesterday’s Mentone 10 km where they supported fellow inductees Ned Denison, Sally Minty-Gravett MBE, Forrest Nelson, Trent Grimsey, Jaimie Monahan, and Chloë McCardel. Photos of Ida Elionsky and Henry Elionsky courtesy of
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Courtesy of Special Olympics World Games in Abu Dhabi, UAE. 7,500 athletes from 190 countries will compete at the 2019 Special Olympics World Games in Abu Dhabi, UAE.* The Special Olympics World Games is one of the world’s largest sporting events and will have a 1.5 km open water swim for the third time in
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Courtesy of Ryan Rossing, Minocqua Lake, Wisconsin. Minocqua Island Swim Challenge is a 400m and 1-mile lake swim held in Minocqua Lake in northern Oneida County, Wisconsin on June 29th. Race director Laura Fuhrman says, “The Oneida County Public Safety Dive Team has 10 divers who respond to emergencies across more than a thousand lakes
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