Paul Georgescu knows it is time for him to pay back to the sport of ice swimming. “So I try to make and to bring a national team at the Ice Swimming World Cup in Poland. I am doing this because ice swimming gave me so much satisfaction. Similar to when I swam the English Channel, my dream was to bring the first Romanian relay team composed by my students. Now after I was the first and only Romanian swimmer at the World Cup in Murmansk, my dream is to make a Romanian national team of at least 10 competitive ice swimmers. These athletes are swimmers, former water polo players, and triathletes. I already started acclimatization in the cold water and using the Wim Hof breathing method. Now in Romania, the weather is getting warmer and the only training method will be done in ice baths. Our specific training will start from November. I will teach them everything that I learned in these amazing two years of ice swimming.”
Southern California native, born 1962, is the creator of the WOWSA Awards, Oceans Seven, Openwaterpedia, Citrus Corps, World Open Water Swimming Association, Daily News of Open Water Swimming, Global Open Water Swimming Conference. He is Chief Executive Officer of KAATSU Global and KAATSU Research Institute. Inductee in the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame (Honor Swimmer, Class of 2001) and Ice Swimming Hall of Fame (Honor Contributor - Media, Class of 2019), recipient of the International Swimming Hall of Fame's Poseidon Award (2016), International Swimming Hall of Fame's Irving Davids-Captain Roger Wheeler Memorial Award (2010), USA Swimming's Glen S. Hummer Award (2007, 2010) and Harvard University's John B. Imrie Award (1984). Served on the FINA Technical Open Water Swimming Committee and as Technical Delegate with the 2011 Special Olympics World Summer Games, and 9-time USA Swimming coaching staff. Note: WOWSA only recommends products or services used or recommended by the community. WOWSA does not receive compensation for links or products mentioned on this site or in blog posts. If it does, it will be indicated clearly on that specific post. See WOWSA's privacy policy for more information.
