What Was Happening 5 Years Ago In The Open Water? Video courtesy of Henri Kaarma, Murmansk, Russia. The Daily News of Open Water Swimming has been covering the sport since 2008 - and before that on various platforms including 10Kswim.com. From historical accounts and equipment reviews to unprecedented swims to lists of luminaries in the sport, the Daily
The Most Popular Open Water Swimming Content Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Thank you very much for taking the time to read the Daily News of Open Water Swimming. Your visits, questions and comments are always greatly appreciated. From historical accounts and equipment reviews to unprecedented swims to lists of luminaries in the sport,
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. After taking a total of 68 flights to 5 continents throughout 2014, from Quebec to Qatar, we continue to learn more about the global open water swimming world. Whether we talk with swimmers in Boston or Bahrain, London or Lisbon, San Francisco or São Paulo, we enjoy discovering how passionate and
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The Daily News of Open Water Swimming interviewed one of the world's greatest open water swimmers of all time, Petar Stoychev of Bulgaria, an Honour Swimmer in the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame and the former Minister of Sport in Bulgaria. On the shores of the Caribbean Sea in Cancún,
Last Saturday, Northwestern University All-American swimmer Eric Nilsson won the World Open Water Swimming Association 10 Mile World Championship at the Kingdom Swim in Lake Memphremagog, Vermont. After pushing himself to the limit and being pushed by teenager Feodor Orlov over the entire 16.2 km course, we asked the veteran about the Kingdom Swim.
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"I was swimming, but I wasn't conscious," explains Ted Erikson often when describing his Farallon Islands swim to the Golden Gate Bridge in 1967, a feat that has yet to be replicated. He competed against Greta Andersen and Abdul Latif Abou Heif in the heydays of the 1960's professional marathon swimming circuit, the 1960's English Channel crossings, and the
Conditions do not always cooperate when open water swims are held. This places a huge amount of pressure on the race directors, safety personnel and volunteers. When rains, winds, waves, marine life, thunder and lightning invade the venue and corrupt the competition, open water swimming becomes roughwater swimming and swimmers face Mother Nature. But
When a swim has never been accomplished before, when does its history start? In the channel swimming world, success is usually not achieved on the very first attempts. Although there are many exceptions, more than likely first-time channel swims take time. That is, attempts were tried before the English Channel was finally conquered, although 1 out of 105
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