Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. At the State Harbour Crossing in Auckland, New Zealand amongst the sold-out field of 1,600 swimmers this past weekend, 4-time world record holder Pip Gower swam together with her daughter Sally Schnauer and granddaughter Amber Schnauer. Gower [shown on left with Tessa Staveley on right] competed at the
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Like her male counterpart on top of the podium Yasunari Hirai, Charlotte Webby has earned the maximum points in the State Ocean Swim Series after winning her second consecutive victory at the 2.9 km State Harbour Crossing in Auckland today. Webby from New Plymouth dominated the field and finished over a
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Japanese Olympian Yasunari Hirai is 2 for 2 at the State Ocean Swim Series in New Zealand. He won the State Harbour Crossing leg in Auckland, a 2.9 km race from Bayswater to the Viaduct, in a close race over George O'Brien with Phillip Ryan a mere two seconds behind in third. Hirai had earlier won the
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. There will be another competitive international clash in New Zealand at this weekend's 2.9 km State Harbour Crossing where Australian Olympian Jarrod Poort [on left] will compete against Olympian and New Zealand Ocean Swim Series leader Yasunari Hirai of Japan, George O'Brien of Australia, and top-ranked
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
New Zealand’s Kane Radford is training in Australia now, but he came how to win the opening leg of the State New Zealand Ocean Swim Series. The young man from Rotorua claimed the 2.9 km State Harbour Crossing with London Olympian Dylan Dunlop Barrett pushing him for the entire traverse across the Waitemata Harbour today. Radford and Dunlop-Barrett
1,700 individuals completed the 2.9 km State Harbour Crossing in today's opening leg of the State New Zealand Ocean Swim Series. The participants included several well-known New Zealanders including athletes like former All Blacks winger and now Blues rugby coach Sir John Kirwan. He finished the race in 51:06 with former triathlon great Rick Wells, who
While the men's race was close to the very end in the opening leg of the State New Zealand Ocean Swim Series, the women's race was a different story. The 2.9 km race was dominated by pre-race favorite Charlotte Webby. While Webby was expecting a close race with Wellington’s Emma Robinson and talented Australian Jessica Walker, she won comfortably by 32
New Zealander Charlotte Webby who always performs well on the State New Zealand Ocean Swim Series has specific goals, shared by many swimmers of all ages at the State Harbour Crossing. “I’m going to go out, go hard and have fun. I’m keeping it really simple," says the competitive swimmer from Taranaki about participating on one of the world's top open
The waters off Auckland kick off some fast and furious swimming this weekend. New Zealand’s fastest open water swimmers will once again face Australia's best when the 2013/2014 State New Zealand Ocean Swim Series starts on Sunday morning at the State Harbour Crossing. New Zealand fastest man 23-year-old Kane Radford (shown on left) will face some pretty
