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Courtesy of Andrew Chin, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Andrew Chin has taken up many challenges around the world – from mid-winter lake swims in Switzerland to swims in Patagonia to ice swims in Antartica. But the Cape Town master of adventure is on his fifth Swim for Rivers, a stage swim that raises awareness around the […]
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Courtesy of Andrew Chin, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Cape Town open water swimmer Andrew Chin loves the extreme in lakes, rivers and oceans. Yesterday, he completed his fifth Swim for Rivers challenge on the Mtamvuna River in KwaZulu-Natal. He swam 70 km over a 6-day period, finishing at the mouth of the river just south of
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Courtesy of GoSwim. Aaron Peirsol, a 7-time Olympic medalist and world record holder, is a great body surfer and open water swimmer. In a recent GoSwim video, he shows how a standard vertical kicking drill can be made more difficult and effective with a quick quarter turn every third kick. “For competitive open water swimmers
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Courtesy of Ned Denison, Gateway of India. On November 28th, Ned Denison continued his aquatic adventures around the world, this time in India. Denison, the chairperson of the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame, completed a 35 km swim from from Dharmatar to Gateway of India in the center of Mumbai in 7 hours 41
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Petar Stoychev, Superstar From -1.2°C To 32°C Courtesy of Petar Stoychev, Antarctica. “Petar Stoychev has unofficially set a record of the most unusual sort,” observed Steven Munatones. “Not only did he win the 2011 FINA World Championships 25 km marathon swim in water that was at least 32°C, but he also competed the first ice
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Courtesy of Joe Bernini, Cruce Golfo Dulce. Cruce Golfo Dulce is an three-race open water swimming competition held in Golfo Dulce in Puerto Jimenez, Costa Rica on August 3rd and 4th 2019. Joe Bernini, Director of Cruce Golfo Dulce, says, “The 8th edition of the Cruce Golfo Dulce will offer a 6-night standard or individually
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Courtesy of International Winter Swimming Association, Jelgavas, Latvia. The first stage of the IWSA World Cup series kicked off the new season with the 10th Jelgavas Roni Cup on November 2nd and 3rd in Latvia where 231 swimmers from 22 countries (Latvia, Finland, United Kingdom, Russia, Estonia, Sweden, Mongolia, Belgium, Belarus, Australia, Brazil, Germany, Switzerland,
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Courtesy of Seeker, The Swim, Pacific Ocean. After weeks of fighting the weather and risky water conditions with the final 5 days of no swimming due to safety stoppages, Ben Lecomte officially called off The Swim, his transoceanic assisted stage swim of 8,721 km across the Pacific Ocean from Japan to California. After 160 days,
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Courtesy of Phil White, Kingdom Games, Vermont. Phil White, Director of the Kingdom Games made a recent appeal to the Friends of the Northeast Kingdom Open Water Swimming Association, “During the past decade, we have grown open water swimming in the legendary lakes of the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont from one day to over 15;
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. “Basically you have a love affair with that task and you find yourself in it: it’s meditation. And that’s what water, ever since I was a kid, was for me…it was always a matter of trying to see how deep my relationship could be with the water,” said Aaron