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PARANA, February 6. THE Maratón Internacional Hernandarias – Paraná, the longest FINA Open Water Swimming Grand Prix race and one of the world's top open water swims, that takes swimmers 88 kilometers from the city Hernandarias to Paraná in Ar...
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VIEDMA, Argentina. February 4. EVA Fabian led a 1-2 American finish at today's FINA 10K Marathon Swimming World Cup event in Viedma, Argentina.
During a year in which she is taking time off from her freshman year at Yale University, she ...
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TOKYO, Japan. February 2. OLYMPIC swimming heroes and heroines have occasionally turned to open water swimming in their post-Olympic careers.
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HUNTINGTON BEACH, California. January 31. ONE size definitely does not fit all in the open water swimming world. From training habits to feeding, open water swimmers follow an exceeding wide range of parameters.
And ...
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SANTOS, Brazil. January 30. THERE were no surprises at the opening race of the 2012 FINA 10km Marathon Swimming World Cup series - it was a totally exciting, down-to-the-finish, wild, crazy sprint among the world's elite in the ocean course ...
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SANTA FE, Argentina. January 30. THE top men at the FINA Open Water Swimming Grand Prix had a furious fight to the finish at the end of their 8-hour 57K race from Sante Fe to Coronda in Argentina. ...
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SANTOS, Brazil. January 28. SUNDAY's FINA 10KM Marathon Swimming World Cup race from Santos, Brazil will be live streamed online on Sunday, January 29th.
The race between 89 of the world's top professional marathon swimmers, including ...
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LAUSANNE, Switzerland, January 23. THE first leg of the Grand Prix saw French Julien Sauvage and local hope Cecilia Biagioli, both 27 years old, capture the gold medal in Rosario (ARG) on Sunday January 22. A pack of 25 swimmers from eight countri...
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LAKE TAHOE, California, January 23. A group of open water swimming enthusiasts, including Jamie Patrick, Karen Rogers, Rob Laurie, Garrett Harley and Brian Patterson, announced the establishment of the Lake Tahoe Swimming Society (LTSS) today.
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HUNTINGTON BEACH, California, January 22. AMONG the 6,930 Openwaterpedia entries of people, products, places, services, coaches, pilots and events, below is the current list of the 50 most popular online searches related to open water swimming or...
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HUNTINGTON BEACH, California, January 22. IT is obviously a channel swimmer. Also include marathon swimmers. But it is also a person who does a Polar Bear Swim and a lifeguard competition.
It is also a multi-sport athlete or triathlete, at...
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STANFORD, California, January 22. PHIL Cutti, an exercise physiologist at Stanford's Human Performance Lab at Stanford University talked about the myriad logistical issues he and his teammates from the ...
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SAN ANTONIO, Texas. January 18. DENNY Ryther was appointed as chairman of the Unión Americana de Natación (UANA or the Amateur Swimming Union of the Americas) Technical Open Water Swimming Committee. His tenure will be from November 2012 to Octo...
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MIAMI, Florida. January 17. NEW to the annual Swim Miami ocean event in Florida this year, race director Jonathan Strauss is hosting the inaugural Media Challenge on April 8th.
Each media company will be given the opportunity to send one rep...
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LAKE TAUPO, New Zealand. January 15. KANE Radford and Cara Baker confirmed their dominance over the domestic New Zealand open water swimming scene when they won the 5K races at the State New Zealand Open Water Championships in Lake Taupo.
24 h...
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LAKE TAUPO, New Zealand. January 14. THE State New Zealand 10km Open Water Swim in Lake Taupo served as a qualification race for the host swimmers from New Zealand.
Faced with some of the fastest professional marathon swimmers on the planet, ...
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BONDI BEACH, Australia. January 12. DURING the 2007 North Bondi Classic race, Australia open water swimming star Luane Rowe recalled, "Only 15 of us finished due to [blooms of] blue bottles that were blown onto the race course."...
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HUNTINGTON BEACH. January 11. OPEN water swimmers who wield power and influence do so in a variety of ways and roles: as swimmers (both former and current), administrators, judges, coaches, officials, writers, producers or photo/videographers.
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MISSION VIEJO, California. January 8. SIGA Rose is a renowned age-group swimming coach from the Mission Viejo Nadadores in Southern California. While her USA Swimming coaching peers, parents and swimmers know her for her age-group swimmers who ...
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HONOLULU, Hawaii. January 7. "STINGS from Portuguese man o war tend to be erratic in shape," explains marine expert Dr. Gail Grabowsky of Honolulu, Hawaii.
"The man o war tentacles stick to the skin. Then, the swimmer...
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FRANCE. January 6. ERWAN Le Corre from France is pushing his philosophy and way of life through MovNat. The catalyst behind MovNat's clinics was his observation that many people have become the homo sapiens equivalent of cage, confined zoo ...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, January 4. SWIMMING World is proud to announce the formation of a content partnership with Open Water Source. With open water swimming about to produce its seco...
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HUNTINGTON BEACH, California. January 4. THERE are three types of chafing that are experienced by swimmers. The different types of chafing can be unsightly, iritating at best or painful at worse, leading to changes in stroke mechanics. The typ...
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SANTA BARBARA, California. January 2. SCOTT Zornig of the Santa Barbara Channel Swimming Association announced the Southern Californ...
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HUDSON RIVER, New York. January 1. OF the hundreds of new open water swimming events that were started during 2011, most have established a firm course for a successful future. In New York, the new 7-day, 7-stage ...
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LONDON, England. December 31. HER Majesty Queen Elizabeth issued her New Year's Honours List for 2011 today. Michael Read, Preside...
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PERSIAN GULF. December 28. NINE days into his solo stage swim across the Persian Gulf, 34-year-old ...
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SAN DIEGO, California, December 27. CATALINA Channel swimmer Dr. Peter Attia wants to make the world a healthier place tomorrow.
He has star...
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HYDE PARK, England, December 26. THE proper term for the marathon swimming event at the 2012 London Olympics is the Olympic Mara...
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HINSDALE, Illinois. December 26. IN the world of professional marathon swimming, four women have stood out among their male counterparts. Gret...
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NORTH POLE, Arctic Circle. December 24. 'TWAS the night before Christmas, when all through the land, People were jumping on the open water band.
Goggles and swimsuits were selected with care,
In hopes that summer season soon would be the...
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FEHMARN BELT, Denmark-Germany. December 24. ONE of the world's most challenging channel swims is the 25-kilometer Beltquerung.
The 25K cha...
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HUNTINGTON BEACH, California. December 21. CHAFING is a common ailment and complaint among open water swimmers and triathletes. There are ...
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SAN FRANCISCO BAY, California. December 19. DAN Martin moved his training base from his native Great Britain to San Francisco, California where...
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LAKE BALATON, Hungary. December 17. MANYOKI Attila has a deep passion for marathon swimming. The former competitive butterflyer from Hungar...
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SAN DIEGO, California, December 16. VENTURA Deep Six set a seemingly insurmountable bar in ocean swimming with its 202-mile relay swim from Ventura to San Diego, California in 2010. But the ...
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COPACABANA BEACH, Brazil. December 13. WHEN thousands of people do an open water swim, the start is always exciting to watch.
The annual King and Queen...
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COPACABANA BEACH, December 12. THE men knew it was going to be a dog fight, they just didn't expect the waves to be so rough and the conditions to be so challenging. But the men from Italy, Australia, South Africa, Brazil, Germany and Argenti...
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil. December 9. ANA Marcela Cunha of Brazil bolted into the lead in the 800m sprint race at the ...
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SAN DIEGO, California. December 8. SAN Diego's Blair Cannon completed a fast 8 hour 18 minute Catalina Ch...
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SAN DIEGO, California. December 8. IN this fourth episode on nutrition and open water swimming, Dr. Peter Attia talks about diet and the...
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LONDON, England. December 3. OPEN Water Source will look at the 2012 Olympic medal hopefuls and dark horses in the series about the 2012 ...
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SAN DIEGO, California, U.S.A. December 2. OPEN Water Source offers an ongoing video series that explores nutrition for open water swimmers with ...
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COPACABANA BEACH, Brazil. November 29. THERE are numerous races around the world showcase the sport in beautiful setting with elaborate logistics and thoughtful planning.
These open water races offer everything: interesting and challenging c...
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LONDON, England, November 29. TWO new books that include numerous pages, stories, illustrations and history of open water swimming were released in both the U.S. and U.K.
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil. November 28. PEDRO Rego Monteiro is hosting one of the world's greatest open water events again in Copacabana Beach - the King and...
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BERING STRAIT, Russia-USA, November 25. "THAT is going to be the tricky thing - swimming for a short 20-minute swim for 4-5 times over a 24-30 hour period," explained British extreme swimmer ...
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LAKE TAUPO, New Zealand, November 24. a href="http://openwaterpedia.com/index.php?title=Lake_Taupo"target="_blank">LAKE Taupo, the largest lake in New Zealand, will be the site of a two concurrently held open water events. ...
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HUNTINGTON BEACH, California, November 23. IF an athlete had time and resources to do an open water swim in all 50 states of the USA, this state-by-state list would be one possible bucket list of swims.
This list is only a small sliver of the...
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HUNTINGTON BEACH, California. November 20. BIOMIMETRICS is a term for taking product design ideas from nature. As scientists, researchers, doctors and engineers are exploring nature to gain an understanding of how novel materials, products and co...
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PUTRI ISLAND, Indonesia. November 19. WITH all the medals awarded in the 5K and 10K races at the 2011 SEA Games held on the tropical paradise of <...
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SAN FRANCISCO, California. November 17. Kate Greene of Nashville, Tennessee won the 2011 ...
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SAN FRANCISCO, California. November 17. THE Adventure Swim Contest is an innovative contest sponsored and organized by adventu...
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SAN FRANCISCO, California. November 17. KATE Greene of Nashville, Tennessee won the 2011 ...
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LOS ANGELES, California, November 16. A strong kick is an important part of open water swimming technique. Powerful bursts of speed are needed at various points during a race. The legs are strong contributors. Athletes can practice kicking with ...
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LOS ANGELES, California, November 16. CONNECTIONS develop when humans enter the open water that simply do not happen when homo sapiens are on land.
While humans are adept at self-expression, the exchange of concepts, the organization of comple...
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AUNU'U, American Samoa, November 16.
BRUCKNER Chase was formally given the title of ...
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ZAGREB, Croatia, November 16. VICKO Soljan, race director for the Faros Maraton, provided the all-time fastest times at the ...
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LOS ANGELES, California, November 16. 30 years ago, Paul Asmuth ruled the professional marathon swimming world and the ...
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BAKERSFIELD, California, November 16. FAR from the coastlines of the West Coast, inland-located Bakersfield is still getting into open water swimming. Like t...
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LOS ANGELES, California, November 16. WHILE mankind has been swimming purposefully in oceans, seas, lakes and rivers for over three millennia from the South Pacific to the western shores of Africa, the beginning of the modern age of open water swi...
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BAJA CALIFORNIA, Mexico, November 16. THE first solo attempt across the Sea of Cortez will pit ...
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LOS ANGELES, California, November 16. HOW technology dramatically changes things - and can bring the world's open water swimming community closer.
Back in 1998, ...
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