Anne Marie Ward Never Gave Up
Anne Marie Ward won the 2010 World Open Water Swimming Woman of the Year award in the year she successfully crossed the North Channel
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Predictable Unpredictability And Expecting The Unexpected
Predictable Unpredictability and Expect the Unexpected are two fundamental concepts that every open water swimmer faces in the seas, lakes, rivers, and oceans.
Nuala Shares Moore About Cold Water Swimming
Nuala Shares Moore About Cold Water Swimming Courtesy of Nuala Moore, Dingle, Ireland. "The first time that I saw Nuala Moore finish an Ice Kilometer in a falling snow after she had completed 40 laps in the 25m pool carved out of a frozen lake in Burghausen, Germany, I knew she was one of the world's most well-adapted cold water swimmers," remembered
Anne Marie Ward On WOWSA Live
Sponsored by KAATSU Global, Huntington Beach, California. In a throwback episode (from June 2012) of Open Water Wednesday (the precursor to WOWSA Live), USA Swimming national team coach Anne Marie Ward spoke with Steven Munatones on a variety of topics. Ward was the 2010 World Open Water Swimming Woman of the Year and is an inductee of the Hall of Fame
Nominate Your Favorite Swimmer For The 2019 World Open Water Swimming Woman Of The Year
Nominate Your Favorite Swimmer For The 2019 World Open Water Swimming Woman Of The Year Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Last year in a very close online vote, young Polish winter swimmer and channel swimmer Aleksandra Bednarek was voted the 2018 World Open Water Swimming Woman of the Year among an illustrious group of women. Anyone can
Ion Lazarenco Tiron Inducted In The Hall of Fame – Marathon Swimming Ireland
Ion Lazarenco Tiron Inducted In The Hall of Fame – Marathon Swimming Ireland Courtesy of Hall of Fame – Marathon Swimming Ireland. Ion Lazarenco Tiron is bold, hardened and passionate. The 40-year-old has not only completed the Oceans Seven this year (Strait of Gibraltar in 4 hours 41 minutes, English Channel in 13 hours 34 minutes, North Channel in 16
Class of 2019 Hall of Fame – Marathon Swimming Ireland
Courtesy of Hall of Fame – Marathon Swimming Ireland. Kieran Fitzgerald, a Class of 2018 Honoree, announced six new Honorees in the Hall of Fame – Marathon Swimming Ireland: * Honour Contributor Stephen Millar, Administrator * Honour Contributor Sandycove Island Swimmers, Organization * Honour Swimmer Anne-Marie Ward * Honour Swimmer Gráinne Moss (née
Absolutely Painful Open Water Swims Of The 21st Century
Ten Incredibly Painful Open Water Swims of the early 21st Century: The following ten incidents were off the charts in terms of pain, discomfort and inherent risk
1st World Ice Swimming Championship To Be Presented
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Dmitry Blokhin, Deputy Chairperson of Murmansk City Committee of Physical Culture and Sport, reported some great news for ice swimmers around the world. "The Head of Murmansk City Alexei Veller and Ram Barkai from South Africa signed a Declaration on Cooperation between the Murmansk City Municipality and the
Who Is Better Prepared For Extreme Conditions?
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. National Geographic reported that University of Utah researchers found that the average temperature of a women's hands is 2.8°F (1.6°C) colder than the average temperature of a man's hand (87.2°F versus 90°F or 30.6°C vs. 32.2°C). This difference is surprising because a women’s core body temperature can
