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Freda Streeter, The Channel General, Recalls Her Career On WOWSA Live

Freda Streeter, The Channel General, Recalls Her Career On WOWSA Live

Freda Streeter, The Channel General, Recalls Her Career On WOWSA Live Sponsored by KAATSU Global, Huntington Beach, California. Freda Streeter, MBE is one of the icons of the English Channel community, known for inspiring and [...]

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Sarah Thomas En Route To Mightily Raising The Bar

Sarah Thomas En Route To Mightily Raising The Bar

Sarah Thomas En Route To Mightily Raising The Bar Photo courtesy of James Musselwhite, Outdoor Swimmer Magazine. Sarah Thomas is raising the bar in the endurance sports world so high, it is difficult to fathom. [...]

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Brian Meharg Shares His Perspectives On North Channel Crossings At the 2019 WOWSA Ocean Fest

Brian Meharg Shares His Perspectives On North Channel Crossings At the 2019 WOWSA Ocean Fest

Back in the day before contemporary technological advances were utilized, Brian Meharg navigated swimmers across the North Channel with pen and paper, an era of trial and error as captains, navigators and swimmers were learning [...]

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Brian Meharg To Speak At WOWSA Ocean Fest In Redondo Beach

Brian Meharg To Speak At WOWSA Ocean Fest In Redondo Beach

Howard Keech and Brian Meharg before crossing the North Channel Brian Meharg To Speak At WOWSA Ocean Fest In Redondo Beach Courtesy of Brian Meharg, Bangor, Ireland It is widely acknowledged that the [...]

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Chloë McCardel 20 Down In The Channel. 24 To Go?

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. "#20 swim done," wrote Chloë McCardel. "Done!! New Aussie Record!! [Husband] Paul [McQueeney] and I are very excited. 10 hrs 19 min." The 31-year-old from Australia broke the long-standing [...]

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The Legacy Of 43 Is Being Chased

The Legacy Of 43 Is Being Chased Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Chloë McCardel recently completed her 17th English Channel crossing. At the young age of 31 years old, she will soon surpass Canada's [...]

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Sweet Caroline Crosses The North Channel

Courtesy of Infinity Channel Swimming and Piloting Services, North Channel between Northern Ireland and Scotland. "18 days after completing her English Channel crossing, Caroline Block from the U.S.A. completed a successful 21-mile crossing the North [...]

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Chloë McCardel, Aussie Aussie Aussie, Oi Oi Oi

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Australian marathon swimmer Chloë McCardel is continuing where she left off last year when she swam a three-way English Channel crossing and three one-way crossings in one week. The [...]

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When Open Water Icons Meet In New York

Photo © Marco Chiesa, Manhattan Island, New York. Results © NYC Swim. Looking back in the archives of the Manhattan Island Marathon Swim (MIMS), there were a number of renowned swimmers competing in the June [...]

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When Alison Streeter Was Honored By The ISHOF

Courtesy of International Swimming Hall of Fame, Class of 2006 when Alison Streeter was inducted as an Honor Open Water Swimmer. Read about Streeter and her fellow honorees of the International Swimming Hall of Fame [...]

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Chloë McCardel Talks About The English Channel

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. In years past, swimmers like Alison Streeter, Michael Read, Kevin Murphy, Cindy Nicholas, and Des Renford did repeated English Channel crossings. In contemporary times, there are a handful of [...]

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The Legacy Of 43

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Outside Magazine touted James Lawrence's current attempt at completing 50 Ironman triathlons in 50 states in 50 days as one of the most hardcore endurance record attempts. If anyone [...]

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Chloë McCardel Makes It Look As Easy As 1-2-3

Chloë McCardel Makes It Look As Easy As 1-2-3 Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. 10 down...and many more to go. 30-year-old Chloë McCardel is making crossings of the English Channel look easy, both as [...]

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All-Time Greatest Open Water Swimmers – Female

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. If we had to make a theoretical all-star relay of great female open water swimmers to swim across any of the Oceans Seven channels (English Channel, Catalina Channel, Molokai [...]

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This Was To Be A Special Day

Recollections of Colleen Mallon's North Channel crossing courtesy of Brian Meharg, Irish Channel pilot. I was not aware that arriving at the Eisenhower pier at Bangor was one of the best long distance swimmers alive. [...]

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Women versus Men In The Open Water World

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. South African swimmer Theodore Yach asked a question whose answer is not surprising to those in the open water swimming community: Are women equal or better at ultra sea [...]

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Highlights From The ILDSA Awards

The ILDSA 2013 Awards ceremony, hosted by Camlough Lake Water Festival Team and Newry and Mourne District Council in the Sean Hollywood Arts Centre, were attended by the over 100 guests including the Alison Streeter [...]

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The Admiral Of The Channel

When we look at old photos of Mercedes Gleitze attempting to swim across the North Channel between Scotland and Ireland, we half expect to see a young Brian Meharg MBE in her boat, so intertwined [...]

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Anna Wardley Wants To Make It A Quartet

Anna Wardley will attempt to become the fourth person to swim around the Isle of Wight, the largest island of England. It is located in the English Channel and separated from the mainland by a [...]

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A Fitting Outcome In The United Kingdom

According to a recent World Heath Federation survey, 18% of women in the United Kingdom say they never do exercise or exert themselves at all. 54% of British women reported that they had not done [...]

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