Sponsored by KAATSU Global, Huntington Beach, California. Penny Palfrey, a mother of three and a grandmother of one from Townsville, Queensland, Australia, committed to the Bridging The Cayman Islands in June 2011 in the Cayman Islands after failing at completing two attempts of swimming from the islands of Oahu to Kauai in the state of Hawaii in
Swimming In The Wake Of Richard Weinberger WOWSA, Odaiba Marine Park, Tokyo Bay, Japan. Notwithstanding calls both inside and outside Japan for a cancellation of the rescheduled Tokyo Olympics of July 23rd - August 8th 2021 due to the possibility of not adequately managing the coronavirus pandemic by next year, Swimming Canada continues to make plans for
Lexie Kelly, Alex Meyer Go 2-for-2 In Flowers Sea Swim Courtesy of Flowers Sea Swim, Seven Mile Beach, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands. Olympian and 25 km world champion Alex Meyer and Californian Lexie Kelly won their second race at the 10 km marathon swim at the 2019 Flowers Sea Swim on Seven Mile Beach in the Cayman Islands. On Saturday, the duo finished
Anup Itwar Working Wonders Courtesy of WOWSA, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands. The Flowers Sea Swim is one of the World's Top 100 Open Water Swims. The beautiful venue of Seven Mile Beach on Grand Cayman, the hospitality of the volunteer crew, the charity events surrounding the event, the $100,000 worth of prizes and awards given out to the participants are
Alex Meyer, Lexie Kelly Win Flowers Sea Swim Courtesy of Flowers Sea Swim, Seven Mile Beach, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands. Olympian and 25 km world champion Alex Meyer and Californian Lexie Kelly won the featured 1-mile race at the 2019 Flowers Sea Swim on Seven Mile Beach on Grand Cayman in the Cayman Islands. Kelly finished 8th overall in the 27th
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. In the second half of Penny Palfrey's 109 km (68-mile) swim from Little Cayman to Grand Cayman that took 40 hours 41 minutes in 2011, a helicopter delivered a tub of chocolate ice cream to her escort boat, the Carib Princess. The cold chocolate ice cream was a welcomed relief in the warm tropical water that
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Joe Rainero completed the unprecedented 7.6-mile (12.2 km) Kaibo to Camana Bay Swim on Grand Cayman Island in the Cayman Islands in 3 hours 45 minutes. "With the water a warm 82°F, the day started with very calm wind and water conditions. After swimming past Starfish Point, the waves and wind picked up. The
Adriane Grimaldi is an American open water swimmer and snorkeler from Scottsdale, Arizona. She swam 5 miles across the Cayman Brac Channel starting at the West End on Cayman Brac and finishing on Sandy Point on Little Cayman Island. Without a right hand. Grimaldi was born without a right hand with a condition known as Amniotic Banding Syndrome. "I
In today's inaugural Flowers International 5k and 10k swims, one athlete will not stray far from his home. His Excellency The Governor Duncan Taylor lives in the Government House which is located on Seven Mile Beach in the Grand Cayman, situated near the middle of the 5 km and 10 km courses. Governor Taylor is the world's only head of state who is actively
Laurie Dunlap and Bobby Patten and over 60 of their masters swimming teammates, friends, and family members headed off to the Cayman Islands this weekend for the 1-mile Flowers Sea Swim and the 5 km and 10 km international marathon swims. "We had so many people sign-up for this event back in April, I had to see it for myself," says Patten, the Dallas
