To educate, entertain, and enthuse those who venture beyond the shore
The famed aQuellê Midmar Mile in South Africa has offered a number of unique awards to their open water swimming participants over the years.
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Aerial photos courtesy of Jaco Tredoux and Andrew Martens of Helicam Productions. Queen of Midmar Keri-Anne Payne and King of Midmar Chad Ho [followed by Matthew Mark Meyer] are shown from above as they cross the finish line at the 2015 aQuellé Midmar Mile in Pietermaritzburg in South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal. Men’s results are here. Women’s
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When you have over 15,000 people coming through the finish chute, how does the timing company, awards presenters and volunteers organized everyone? At the point-to-point aQuellé Midmar Mile in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, there is a huge finish tent where swimmers file through their specific chutes according to their proper age and gender. Volunteers take their
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Ashley Twichell of the U.S.A. (lead swimmer) and Keri-Anne Payne of Great Britain (drafting swimmer) met for the third year in a row at the aQuellé Midmar Mile today. “I just wanted to stick to Ashley as much as I could and see how close I could get to her because I know she’s got
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An Open Water Swim Like No Other Courtesy of WOWSA, Kwa Zulu Natal, South Africa. The aQuellé Midmar Mile is an open water swimming event like no other. In a country where there are only 10,000 registered competitive swimmers, nearly 17,000 swimmers take to the Midmar Dam in the state of Kwa Zulu Natal in
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