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Courtesy of Salvatore Cimmino, Santa Fe, Argentina. On the starting line of the annual 57 km Maratón Acuática Internacional Santa Fe – Coronda together with many of the fastest professional marathon swimmers will be Salvatore Cimmino of Italy. Cimmino is a disabled Italian swimmer who became the first disabled athlete to swim across the Cook […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. ‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the land, People were jumping on the open water band. Goggles and swimsuits were selected with care,In hopes that summer season soon would be there. Marathon swimmers with big dreams in their heads,After miles of training, fall fast asleep in their
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Video courtesy of Ger Kennedy, Yakutsk, Siberia, Russia. Frosty the ice swimmer was a jolly happy soul,Stroking away polarized goggles and a dab of lanolinWith two swim buddies, not his kin. Frosty the snowman is a real swimmer, they say,He swims in sleet and cold, but the childrenKnow he heads to shore every day. There
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Estonia. Mild-mannered Estonian banker Henri Kaarma, who was recently honored by the Ice Swimming Hall of Fame, appeared on an Estonian television show on April 21st 2011 that features the most extreme feats by Estonians. Back in 2011, the humble extreme athlete, one of the fastest ice swimmers in the world, swam
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Estonia. Mild-mannered Estonian banker Henri Kaarma, who was recently honored by the Ice Swimming Hall of Fame, appeared on an Estonian television show on April 21st 2011 that features the most extreme feats by Estonians. Back in 2011, the humble extreme athlete, one of the fastest ice swimmers in the world, swam
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Freestyling Around Fuji-san Courtesy of Takashi Nakagawa for National Geographic, Mount Fuji, Japan. Steven Munatones comments on the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and the Olympic 10K Marathon Swim course, “The Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Organizing Committee has long ago decided upon the very warm and very dirty Odaiba Marine Park in Tokyo Bay as its
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Freestyling Around Fuji-san Courtesy of Takashi Nakagawa for National Geographic, Mount Fuji, Japan. Steven Munatones comments on the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and the Olympic 10K Marathon Swim course, “The Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Organizing Committee has long ago decided upon the very warm and very dirty Odaiba Marine Park in Tokyo Bay as its
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Photo of Daniel Curtis in the Derwent River courtesy of Kim Eiszele. History courtesy of Christopher Guesdon, , Tasmania, Australia. There have been open water swimming events of various types and distances on the Derwent River since 1803 when Hobart, the capital and most populous city of the Australian island state of Tasmania, was settled.
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Río de la Plata, Argentina – Uruguay. Lucas Rivet’s Asociación de Cruce a Nado del Río de la Plata in Argentina was nominated for the 2018 World Open Water Offering of the Year. The 42.2 km crossing of the Río de la Plata between Argentina and Uruguay is one of the most
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Courtesy of Track.rs, Río de la Plata, Argentina – Uruguay. Lucas Rivet of the Asociación de Cruce a Nado del Río de la Plata accomplished what he helps others do. The founder of the ACNRP, a nominee for the 2018 World Open Water Offering of the Year, swam across the Río de la Plata in
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