Merle’s Mermaid Marathon0 (0)
Merle Liivand will attempt to set her fourth world record in the mermaid swimming category on May 7th in
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Merle’s Mermaid Marathon
Jaimie Monahan’s Manhattan Island Exploits Recognized By Guinness World Records0 (0)
Jaimie Monahan was recognized by the Guinness World Records for the most swims around Manhattan Island. Known as the Queen of Manhattan Island, Monahan has completed the 45.9 km circumnavigation swim around the island of Manhattan in New York, more times than any other individual in history: 29 circumnavigations between June 2010 and October
Linda Ashmore Wears A Watch For A Reason0 (0)
Linda Ashmore is a breast cancer survivor, Guinness World Record holder, marathon runner, trail ultrarunner, triathlete, marathon swimmer, and channel swimmer - in her 70s.
Shelley Taylor-Smith & Cameron Bellamy Talk About His Guinness World Record At WOWSA Fest0 (0)
Shelley Taylor-Smith & Cameron Bellamy Talk About His Guinness World Record At WOWSA Fest Sponsored by KAATSU Global, Huntington Beach, California. Part 1 of 3 Shelley Taylor-Smith interviewed Cameron Bellamy about his Guinness World Record 150 km channel swim from Barbados to St. Lucia at the 2019 WOWSA Ocean Fest in Redondo Beach, California. The
Kamil Resa Alsaran Continues To Impress0 (0)
Kamil Resa Alsaran Continues To Impress Courtesy of Emre Deliveli. Kamil Resa Alsaran completed 2 separate crossings of the English Channel at the ages of 51 and 54 including a tough 18 hour 1 minute crossing in 2015. After his English Channel crossings, he went on to complete a 5 hour 10 minute crossing of the Strait of Gibraltar and a 13 hour 1 minute
Vojislav Mijić Talks About Swimming With A Full Heart On WOWSA Live0 (0)
Sponsored by KAATSU, Huntington Beach, California. Chemical engineer and marathon swimmer Vojislav Mijić talked about swimming around the world with International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame chairperson Ned Denison in today' edition of WOWSA Live. The International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame Honor Swimmer and organizer of various open water swims
Pablo Fernández Swims At All-Day Pace In Place For COVID-190 (0)
Pablo Fernández Swims At All-Day Pace In Place For COVID-19 Courtesy of Libertad Silva, Madrid, Spain. Pablo Fernández Álvarez, a two-time Guinness World Record holder from Spain, has started his 25-hour non-stop challenge. Libertad Silva explains, "His record attempt is a charity swim to support COVID-19 research, especially noteworthy because Fernández
Dreaming Big With Jaimie Monahan On WOWSA Live0 (0)
Dreaming Big With Jaimie Monahan On WOWSA Live Sponsored by KAATSU, Huntington Beach, California. New Yorker Jaimie Monahan was told after one of her Ice Miles in Siberia by the attending physician, "You have no vital signs (because he could not obtain her blood pressure), but you seem OK." "I was smiling and laughing," she recalled about her usual
Looking Forward For Pablo Fernández Álvarez And Nuala Moore0 (0)
Looking Forward For Pablo Fernández Álvarez And Nuala Moore Courtesy of WOWSA, Mount Everest, Nepal. Like the postponed and cancelled open water swimming events from Tokyo to Florida due to the coronavirus pandemic, Pablo Fernández Álvarez and Nuala Moore [shown above] had to put their swimming goals temporarily on hold. As Fernández says from Spain,
7-Up: Hank Wise vs. Samuel Neri Across The Catalina Channel0 (0)
7-Up: Hank Wise vs. Samuel Neri Across The Catalina Channel Courtesy of the Catalina Channel Swimming Federation, Catalina Channel, California. In October 2018, Hank Wise set a Guinness World Record for his 7 career crossings of the Catalina Channel [see here]. In November 2019, Samuel Neri of Mexico tied Wise with his own seventh career crossing in 13
