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Kate Greene, winner of the Adventure Swim Contest sponsored by Jamie Patrick, is on her way on her open water swimming adventure across America.
Greene's plan is flexible, but you already has two ...
Trent Grimsey is stepping up from his dominant position in 1-2 mile ocean swims to the ultimate proving ground, the English Channel.
A fast pool swimmer and top professional marathon swimmer has begun ...
June 3rd, 2012 |
Ky Hurst |
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Many great Australian swimmers have tried, but none have succeeded in Trent Grimsey's latest attempt to set the world record in the English Channel.
Tammy van Wisse, Shelley Taylor-Smith and Ky Hurst have tried, but this ...
June 3rd, 2012 |
Even Par |
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Leslie Andrews, a former Disney and ESPN executive, wrote a commentary called How To Get Girls in Sports Illustrated Magazine on how the game of golf can attract more women to the ...
June 2nd, 2012 |
Cape Point |
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Two open water swimming landmarks in South Africa include Cape Point and the Cape of Good Hope.
Lewis Pugh has used both to sight off of when he has swum in the ocean near the ...
The world of physics involves the study of matter to understand how the universe behaves, is ruled by laws, measures and formulas.
Although physicists continue to explore fields covering the minute ...
June 2nd, 2012 |
10K Swim |
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Way back in the pre-Olympic marathon swimming era at the 3rd FINA World Open Water Swimming Championships held in Dubai in 2004,Thomas Lurz was making a name for himself as a ...
June 2nd, 2012 |
10k |
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"I hate walls. I hate turns," says northern California native Haley Anderson. An unusual statement to say the least from the reigning NCAA champion in the 500-yard freestyle, a gut-busting 4-minute ...
June 1st, 2012 |
10k |
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A swim-off is the ultimate head-to-head battle in swimming.
A swim-off is a pressure-packed race between two athletes in order to break a tie conducted in a preliminary heat in pool competitions. The winner earns ...
June 1st, 2012 |
28km |
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The Palmy Manly Swim is the longest open water swim in Australia, a 28 km swim from North Palm Beach in Sydney to Manly’s Shelly Beach. 20 English Channel swimmers and open ...
June 1st, 2012 |
10k |
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What kind of landmarks are the Olympics going to see during the marathon swimming races in the Serpentine?
Unlike other open water races, the swimmers will hear, see and feel a ...
On August 10th, Dave Cornthwaite will undertake the hardest segment of his Expedition1000 project: a 1000-mile swim down the lower Missouri River running through the middle of America.
"It will be the toughest expedition I ...
June 1st, 2012 |
10k |
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A swim-off is the ultimate head-to-head battle in swimming.
A swim-off is a pressure-packed race between two athletes in order to break a tie conducted in a preliminary heat in pool competitions. The winner earns ...
52 Americans from 7 states, averaging 39 years old, participated in Jamie's Swim Camp in northern California.
Their open water experience included the Lake Tahoe swims, English Channel solos and relays, Tampa Bay ...
May 31st, 2012 |
FINA |
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At the upcoming FINA Olympic Marathon Swim Qualifier in Setúbal Bay, Portugual, there are dozens of athletes whose road to the Olympics are back stories that exemplify the global nature of the ...
The Tabata method is a popular training regimen for land-based athletes based on a landmark 1996 study by Izumi Tabata of the National Institute of Fitness and Sports in Kanoya City, Japan.
The Tabata ...
What started as one man's dream last year has blossomed to the world's longest and largest ultra-marathon stage swim.
David Barra and Rondi Davies organize the 2nd 8 Bridges Hudson River Swim, a 7-day stage ...
If you were to attempt a trans-Atlantic Ocean solo swim, or serve as a pace swimmer, what might an open water swimmer face out in the middle of the Atlantic ...
The Dragonera Open Water Challenge in Mallorca organized by Neda el Món (Swim the World) , attracted a total of 155 entrants including swimmers from the UK, Spain, Germany, Italy, France and ...
May 30th, 2012 |
Colin Hill |
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Landmarks for open water swimmers can take all different forms, shapes and sizes.
But some swimmers like Lynne Cox, Colin Hill, Ram Barkai,Ned Denison, Simon Murie, Penny Palfrey and Jen Schumacher regularly travel more than others.
The sights they see ...
May 30th, 2012 |
CIBBOWS |
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CIBBOWS is growing.
The Coney Island Brighton Beach Open Water Swimmers is a non-profit group of over 700 swimmers in New York who organize daily ocean training swims and a series of fun and challenging ocean ...
With the English Channel and Catalina Channel season soon to get underway, hundreds of marathon swimmers around the world are in the middle of their hard training.
While every swim is ...
Dan Martin is waiting in an undisclosed location completing his final preparations for his audacious, awe-inspiring, beyond-imagination, Herculean Global Triathlon.
Martin will start and finish on the East Coast of America, occasionally battling ocean ...
Open water swimmers and triathletes can use all kinds of goggles nowadays.
From the compact, size-them-yourself Swedish goggles to the larger panoramic-vision Aqua Sphere Vista Goggles with UV coating, swimmers literally have hundreds of models ...
Way back in August 1978, John Kinsella left Niagara-on-the-Lake, west of Niagara Falls, on an overnight swim to Toronta across Lake Ontario during the US$50,000 Pepsi Challenge Marathon Swim.
From the United States to ...
Elemental Herbs sponsors Activist Athletes, a program reserved for the creme of the crop who excel in outdoor sports, while dedicating themselves to fight non-violently for environmental and social causes.
"As leaders in ...
Landmarks are frequently something swimmers sight off of while in the open water.
Piers, buildings, lights, towers, jetties, homes, trees and peninsulas provide the navigational points to help guide swimmers from ...
May 28th, 2012 |
Dan Martin |
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Simon Holliday is a successful English Channel swimmer, but he is about to take upon a significantly more daunting task as a pace swimmer.
Holliday will swim at the side of Dan Martin during the swim ...
There are going to be a lot of Olympic medalists standing on the shore and swimming along Seven Mile Beach at the upcoming Flowers Sea Swim in the Cayman Islands on June ...
