What is remarkable about the top 3 finishers in the men's 10 km world championship in Barcelona is how well the old men of the group, gold medalist Spyridon Ginniotis, silver medalist Thomas Lurz, and bronze medalist Oussama Mellouli navigate and strategize throughout the entire race. You can almost sense them thinking, plotting, deliberating on how best
Many people in the sport, less we say, most people in the sport, even in his own country of Canada, did not give Richard Weinberger to chance to win a medal at the Olympic 10K Marathon Swim. Sure he was swimming well in the lead-up to the 2012 London Olympic Games, but he had to qualify in the last-chance competition to get to London. And the young man
Ron Jacks, 3-time Olympian and coach of 2012 Olympic bronze medalist Richard Weinberger (shown on left), and Swimming Canada CEO Pierre Lafontaine, opened up the 2012 FINA World Junior Open Water Swimming Championships today with a 3-hour coaching seminar. The races begin tomorrow and extend through August 19th in Welland, Canada. The newest
SAN ANTONIO. Denny Ryther was appointed as chairman of the Unión Americana de Natación (UANA or the Amateur Swimming Union of the Americas) Technical Open Water Swimming Committee. His tenure will be from November 2012 to October 2015. Denny, a long-time USA Swimming national open water swim team manager and administrator, will head an esteemed group of
Richard Weinberger of Victoria, the young and up-and-coming competitor who won the London 10km Marathon Swimming International event and a gold medalist in the 2011 Guadalajara Pan American Games, was named Canada's 2011 Open Water Swimmer of the Year. His Victoria coach, former Olympian Ron Jacks, was selected Canada's 2011 Open Water Coach of the
