Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Australian Olympian Melissa Gorman comfortably won this season’s State New Zealand Ocean Swim Series and the final race of the season on Auckland’s North Shore today. Her victory at the State King of the Bays, a 2.8 km swim from Milford Beach to Takapuna Beach, enabled her to take home a $10,000 cash
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Australian Rhys Mainstone and Melissa Gorman has 10,000 reasons to be happy today as he won the season-ending State King of the Bays event and the overall title of the State New Zealand Ocean Swim Series on Auckland’s North Shore today. Mainstone won the 2.8 km swim from Milford Beach to Takapuna Beach to
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The stakes couldn’t be higher for the best open water swimmers Down Under heading into the penultimate round of the State New Zealand Ocean Swim Series at Mt Maunganui this Saturday. There have been different race winners in each of the four events so far this season in both the women's and men's series.
Like her Australian national teammate Rhys Mainstone, Queensland’s Melissa Gorman won the State La Grande Swim in Akaroa at the New Zealand Ocean Swim Series. But unlike Mainstone and his tight race with Kane Radford, Gorman clearly dominated the women’s race. The former 5 km world champion and double Commonwealth Games medalist started off slowly after
Rhys Mainstone traveled across the Australian continent and across the Tasman Sea to take on his training mate Kane Radford on Radford's home turf at the State La Grande Swim. The two 23-year-olds quickly established themselves in the front of the pack and went head-to-head throughout the 2.8 km round at the New Zealand Ocean Swim Series. Under great
There will be a classic race Down Under this coming Saturday at the State La Grande Swim in Akaroa, New Zealand. New Zealand's Kane Radford will face Australia's Rhys Mainstone mano-a-mano in the fourth round of the State New Zealand Ocean Swim series. The pair of 23-year-olds have both represented their countries at the World Championships and will
Who are open water swimmers? How old are they? What are the demographics of the sport? We took a look at the make-up of the open water swimmers at two popular mass participation races: the 2.8 km State Harbour Crossing in Auckland of the New Zealand Ocean Swim Series and the Waikiki Roughwater Swim in Honolulu, Hawaii. One is a swim in cold water where
As close as the men's race was in yesterday's State Capital Classic in New Zealand, the women’s race, meantime, was dominated by 18-year-old Wellingtonian Emma Robinson. Robinson, who won the 5 km New Zealand open water national title earlier this month, pulled away right from the start, immediately deflating the expected head-to-head battle with the
Australian George O’Brien took a flight to New Zealand and it was all worth the effort and expense. With his victory in the State Capital Classic yesterday, O’Brien burst into contention in the State New Zealand Ocean Swim Series. The 22-year-old swam to an impressive victory in round three in Wellington by fighting off strong challenges from New Zealand’s
FINIS, a world leader in technical swimming products, announces the sponsorship of New Zealand’s top open water swimmer, Kane Radford. Radford is training hard for his second consecutive Olympic quadrennial. In 2012, he was selected for the Olympic 10K Marathon Swim in the 2012 London Olympic Games, but he had to watch the event from home because did not
