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Courtesy of Hall of Fame – Marathon Swimming Ireland. Stephen Millar is the Chairperson of the Irish Long Distance Swimming Association and Race Secretary for the East Coast Adventure Gunnaway Swim and the Gannaway Rock Swim in Ireland. His long career and sponsorship of open water events was recognized by the Hall of Fame – […]
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Courtesy of Hall of Fame – Marathon Swimming Ireland. The Sandycove Island Swimmers is an open water swimming club centered at Sandycove Island, established in 2010. It is a Swim Ireland-affiliated open water club of convenience for adult competent open water swims based in Munster or who wish to swim in Munster open water events.
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Courtesy of Hall of Fame – Marathon Swimming Ireland. Ned Denison is ubiquitous in the open water. He runs global organizations such as the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame and served on boards ranging from the Vermont Open Water Swimming Hall of Fame to the Manhattan Island Marathon Swim. He is influential within his
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Courtesy of Hall of Fame – Marathon Swimming Ireland. Anne-Marie Ward said after her 8 hour 15 minute Tory Island to Magheroarty swim in 2003, “It was very tough, but at no stage did I feel I was going to quit.” Over the last 15 years, Ward has developed into one of Ireland’s most prolific
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Ion Lazarenco Tiron Inducted In The Hall of Fame – Marathon Swimming Ireland Courtesy of Hall of Fame – Marathon Swimming Ireland. Ion Lazarenco Tiron is bold, hardened and passionate. The 40-year-old has not only completed the Oceans Seven this year (Strait of Gibraltar in 4 hours 41 minutes, English Channel in 13 hours 34
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Courtesy of WOWSA, San Francisco Bay, California. “It was a magical day in San Francisco,” said Kathie Hewko has said often [shown on left with her husband Emil]. “Emil is my huge support person.” The realtor from Petaluma, California has been swimming across and underneath the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco Bay for 41
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Courtesy of WOWSA, San Francisco, California. Steve Walker knows his material. The northern Californian wrote Where The Crazy People Swim: Outrageous goals, failure, and success in October 2016 and co-edited A History of Marathon Swimming in 2017. Where The Crazy People Swim addresses the sport of swimming and being honesty about failure both in the
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Courtesy of Seeker, The Swim, Pacific Ocean. After 154 days, Benoît Lecomte has already covered 1,524 nautical miles (2,822 km) in The Swim. Lecomte’s goal is a transoceanic assisted stage swim of 8,721 km across the Pacific Ocean from Japan to California. With 32.3% of the distance covered in a little more than 5 months,
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Sfax, Tunisia. After recovering from open heart surgery, 66-year-old Nejib Belhedi of Tunisia has been completing longer and more difficult open water swims. Since last year, he has planned, prepared and trained for a 120 km swim from Sfax to Djerba Island in his native Tunisia. Between Saturday September 15th morning and
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Prakash Kharvi, an Indian swimmer disabled due to polio, dreams big. He swam 3 km in 7 hours in the Arabian Sea with both his hands handcuffed behind his back. The polio victim started swimming from St Mary’s Island and reached Malpe Beach in India using primarily his left
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