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Category: Open Water

  • 2014 Rotto Swim

    2014 Rotto Swim

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    Miss the Rotto Swim? Check out the highlights, put together by our very own cammo Karl Carosella!

  • FINA 10km Marathon Swimming World Cup 2014 – Las Patagones-Viedma (ARG)

    FINA 10km Marathon Swimming World Cup 2014 – Las Patagones-Viedma (ARG)

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    This annually staged elite-level competition is organised around seven meets and takes place in some of the world’s most amazing natural water bodies, either freshwater (lake, rowing course, river) or saltwater (sea). The 2014 circuit of the FINA 10km Marathon Swimming World Cup kicks off in Patagones-Viedma (ARG) on February 1, then continues in Manzanillo…

  • HBF Rottnest Channel Swim 2014

    HBF Rottnest Channel Swim 2014

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    As the world’s largest open water swim, the HBF Rottnest Channel Swim is a truly iconic Australian event. Starting against the backdrop of stunning Cottesloe beach at dawn, swimmers make the 19.7km crossing to Rottnest Island. For more HBF events visit: http://www.hbf.com.au/living-well/events/events-calendar

  • 15 South African Swimmers To Attempt Extreme “Swim For Hope”

    15 South African Swimmers To Attempt Extreme “Swim For Hope”

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    Press release from Swim For Hope / Little Fighters Cancer Trust Fifteen swimmers from all walks of life go on standby on the 1st of March for one of the most extreme open water swimming challenges in South African waters, in support of the Little Fighters Cancer Trust, a local charity that offers support to…

  • TODAY: Cyril Baldock 70 and swimming the English Channel

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    See ninemsn Cyril Baldock will soon be the oldest man to swim the English Channel at 70 years of age, 29 years after his first English Channel crossing which he took part in when he was 41.

  • Rottnest Swim | 9 News Perth

    Rottnest Swim | 9 News Perth

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    A Sorrento man has taken out this year’s Rottnest Swim, ahead of thousands who competed in near perfect conditions. The risk of sharks weren’t far from competitors’ minds with a two metre hammer-head spotted mid-race.

  • Midmar Mile swimmer drowned

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    Read iol A post-mortem carried out on Midmar Mile swimmer Herman “Thabo” van Straten, who died competing in the race on February 8, has shown he drowned. Police spokesman Captain Lolly Moodley said on Thursday there were no injuries to his body. Van Straten, a 43-year-old businessman from Joburg, disappeared while swimming in the race’s…

  • How Diana Nyad Swam from Cuba to Florida

    How Diana Nyad Swam from Cuba to Florida

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    See Motherboard Before launching into any sport, it’s important to know three things: the rules, the stakes, and when to quit. In the case of Diana Nyad, the resolute 64-year-old long-distance swimmer, acknowledging two out of three ain’t bad. On August 31st, 2013, Nyad jumped into the shark-friendly waters of Cuba and swam some 110-odd…

  • US Olympian Alex Meyer on Vasa swim-specific dryland training

    US Olympian Alex Meyer on Vasa swim-specific dryland training

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    Learn how to strengthen and improve freestyle swimming for triathlon and open water from US Olympian Alex Meyer. He integrates time-efficient power based dryland swim-specific training on Vasa Trainers and Vasa Swim Ergometers. He relies on using the popular swim benches to connect better, more powerfully with the water, to sustain proper high elbow catch…