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Courtesy of Ned Denison, Ice Swimming Hall of Fame. Jaimie Monahan was one of the inaugural honorees of the Ice Swimming Hall of Fame. It was a very well-deserved honor that the globe-trotting American executive was recognized as an Honor Swimmer by the organization founded by Ned Denison and Paolo Chiarino, Elaine Howley, Pádraig Mallon, […]
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Courtesy of Ned Denison, Ice Swimming Hall of Fame. Lewis Pugh was one of the inaugural honorees of the Ice Swimming Hall of Fame. It was a very well-deserved honor that the globe-trotting British ocean advocate was recognized as an Honor Swimmer by the organization founded by Ned Denison and Paolo Chiarino, Elaine Howley, Pádraig
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Courtesy of Ned Denison, Ice Swimming Hall of Fame. International Winter Swimming Association president Mariia Yrjö‐Koskinen was one of the inaugural honorees of the Ice Swimming Hall of Fame. It was a very well-deserved honor that the globe-trotting Finnish administrator and cold water swimming visionary was recognized as an Honor Swimmer by the organization founded
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Torne River, Finland-Sweden. The 3 km Swim The Arctic Circle event is a cross-border midnight swim from Juoksenki, Finland to Juoksengi, Sweden in Torne River. Held in July, the mass start of the 2000m race starts in Sweden on a beach north of the Arctic Circle and finishes south of the Arctic
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Lake Wörthersee, Klagenfurt, Austria. Wörthersee Swim Austria is a multi-race open water swimming competition in Lake Wörthersee, Austria. With 10 races held on September 7th – 8th 2019, it is called the biggest swimming adventure in the Alps. Race distances include the following: * 17 km from Velden to Klagenfurt * 17
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Courtesy of Ned Denison, lac Léman, Switzerland. One cool medal at the 480m race at the Coupe de Noël in Switzerland – with historical roots that date back to 1906. The Coupe de Noël is a popular annual open water swimming competition created in 1934 when 9 swimmers competed in the 125 meter swim. The
Courtesy of Surfline, Mavericks, California. Whether it is freedivers going deep below the ocean’s surface, ice swimmers plunging into below freezing water temperatures, marathon swimmers swimming for days, or surfers gliding down mountainous waves, the ocean offers all kinds of extreme conditions in which athletes can push themselves. The Mavericks Challenge, a Big Wave World
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Courtesy of International Swimming Hall of Fame, Fort Lauderdale, Florida. International Swimming Hall of Fame curator Bruce Wigo called Lynne Cox‘s 1987 Bering Strait crossing between between the Diomede Islands on either side of the Soviet Union and American border, “This might be one of the most significant swims in the history of the world.”
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Courtesy of Ned Denison, Ice Swimming Hall of Fame. Henri Kaarma of Estonia was one of the inaugural honorees of the Ice Swimming Hall of Fame. It was a very well-deserved honor that the mild-mannered, seriously-minded Estonian banker was recognized as an Honor Swimmer by the organization founded by Ned Denison and Paolo Chiarino, Elaine
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Courtesy of Ned Denison, English Channel. Marathon swimming gets a little bit easier each year: GPS navigation, better carbohydrate/electrolyte knowledge and products, more inexpensive airfares, better communications, more organizers and events globally, more coaching, ten of thousands who have already completed their swims, better body understanding, and the explosion of information at the swimmer’s fingertips
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