7 Is A Charm. What About The 2nd Time Around?
Olympian Ky Hurst won his seventh DHL Australian Surf Life Saving Championship open surf race on the Gold Coast. Australia’s great claimed victory despite an uncharacteristically crooked swim course in the heavy surface chop. Ky was behind leader Shannon Eckstein by 15 meters and simply picked up his pace. He told Ian Hanson, “I ended up way off course…and had to make sure he wasn’t that far in front when we got into the wave area. I knew I was swimming well and just had to catch him.”
Once in the surf zone, Ky proved he has the DNA of a dolphin as he caught two waves to bodysurf his way to victory.
The 30-year-old who recently qualified as Australia’s top 10K swimmer will be attempting to make his second Olympic team and win his first medal at the 2012 London Olympics. With an intense, but unorthodox training regimen that is unusual for world-class 10K marathon swimmers, Ky is looking fit and ready as the Olympic sirens begin to toll louder and louder with every new dawn.
Photo by Michael Ross.
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Southern California native, born 1962, is the creator of the WOWSA Awards, Oceans Seven, Openwaterpedia, Citrus Corps, World Open Water Swimming Association, Daily News of Open Water Swimming, Global Open Water Swimming Conference. He is Chief Executive Officer of KAATSU Global and KAATSU Research Institute. Inductee in the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame (Honor Swimmer, Class of 2001) and Ice Swimming Hall of Fame (Honor Contributor - Media, Class of 2019), recipient of the International Swimming Hall of Fame's Poseidon Award (2016), International Swimming Hall of Fame's Irving Davids-Captain Roger Wheeler Memorial Award (2010), USA Swimming's Glen S. Hummer Award (2007, 2010) and Harvard University's John B. Imrie Award (1984). Served on the FINA Technical Open Water Swimming Committee and as Technical Delegate with the 2011 Special Olympics World Summer Games, and 9-time USA Swimming coaching staff. Note: WOWSA only recommends products or services used or recommended by the community. WOWSA does not receive compensation for links or products mentioned on this site or in blog posts. If it does, it will be indicated clearly on that specific post. See WOWSA's privacy policy for more information.
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