50 Olympic 10K Marathon Swim athletes will face extreme water temperatures, high air temperatures, high humidity, and physicality while racing nearly 2 hours in Tokyo Bay at the Tokyo Olympics.
Courtesy of Christine Jennings. American national open water swim team member Christine Jennings is currently gathering data from professional marathon swimmers and coaches for her research paper during her master's degree program. Jennings posted a survey (here) for professional marathon swimmers to express their opinions on the sport. "I appreciate any
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The dislocated shoulder that Marcel Schouten experienced in the USA Swimming National Open Water Championships reminds us of the physicality that is rampant in the sport. The Dutch marathon swimmer must pulled back during the race so hard that he heard something pop in his shoulder and felt immediate pain.
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Many mainstream reporters write about the Olympic 10K Marathon Swim where subject experts claim that "99% of athletes will be ill" as a result of the poor water conditions in Copacabana Beach during the 2016 Rio Olympic Games. These reporters and commentators predict all kinds of problems with the marathon
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. During our time on the FINA Technical Open Water Swimming Committee, we understood that the FINA referees made their decisions partly based on the actions and intentions of the swimmers. That is, if a swimmer intentionally impeded another swimmer, or intentionally pulled on their leg, or intentionally swam
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Two-time FINA 10K Marathon Swimming World Cup victor and professional marathon swimmer Christine Jennings talks about the next stages of her career. Jennings has been among the top American open water swimmers over the last two quadrennials - from 2007 to 2015 - as have Eva Fabian, Haley Anderson, Ashley
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. At today's 1 km grid race in the King and Queen of the Sea (Rei e Rainha do Mar) on Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro, the American duo of Chip Peterson and Christine Jennings finished first in a time of 8:59.0 over an elite field. Team USA was followed by Team Italy (Alice Franco + Matteo Furlan) in
Photo courtesy of Melissa Lundie Photography. Two-time USA Swimming national champion Christine Jennings has been a world-class open water swimmer for a long time, winning a number of FINA World Cup events and the 2010 Pan Pacific Swimming Championship. She has placed high at both USA Swimming national championship races and FINA World Championship events.
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Christine Jennings has traveled to over 20 countries in her open water swimming career, winning from Poland to Canada and many places in between. One of her victories was in the RCP Tiburon Mile in San Francisco Bay in 2010. She will race again tomorrow where the expected ebb tide is expected to sweep
Photo of Ferry Weertman (silver), Jordan Wilimovsky (USA) and Spyridon Gianniotis (Greece) by Giorgio Scala of Deepbluemedia. Article courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Jordan Wilimovsky manhandled the world's best at the FINA World Swimming Championships in Kazan, Russia, but this weekend, he will enter another highly competitive race where
