Photos courtesy of USA Swimming. While there is reportedly over one million individuals who do some form of winter swimming throughout China, over 85% of Australians live near its beautiful coastlines, and nearly every elementary school in Japan has a swimming pool on its campus, America is another country where swimming is popular at all levels. Since
Courtesy of Janet Kylander Manning for the United States Winter Swimming Championships, Vermont. While the British, Irish, Russians, Chinese, Slovenians, Finnish, Latvians, and South Africans have help national winter swimming events, 2015 will see the inaugural United States Winter Swimming Championships be held in Lake Memphremagog on February 21st and
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Darren Miller has transformed himself from a collegiate sprinter to a bodybuilder to one of the world's most foremost channel swimmers. The famed Oceans Seven swimmer is now in his life's next chapter. Creatively building upon concepts learned through a decade of financial sales and endurance athletics,
Courtesy of Jim Clifford who became history's oldest person to swim across the Catalina Channel. Around midnight on September 28th, I stepped off the beach at Catalina Island and entered the ocean on one of the darkest nights imaginable. There was only a sliver of moon visible and no light pollution from the island or mainland California. I had heard
Stay Thirsty With The Most Interesting Men In The World Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Jonathan Goldsmith is a model who is featured in "the world's most interesting man" ad campaign that first began appearing in the United States in 2006. The fictional hero of the Most Interesting Man in the World Dos Equis beer campaign has a number
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The United States Winter Swimming Association (USWSA) was recently established as a non-profit organization with the mission to promote the sport of winter swimming in the United States. "Winter swimming is extremely popular in countries with colder climates and competitions in Russia, the Czech Republic,
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The first Winter Swimming Championship in North America is a winter swimming competition sanctioned by the United States Winter Swimming Association (USWSA) in accordance with rules of the International Winter Swimming Association held in collaboration with Kingdom Games. The Championship will be held on
Courtesy of Darren Miller, Huntington Beach, California. Jim Clifford became the oldest Catalina Channel swimmer in history this Sunday morning with a quick 9 hour 49 minute 20.2-mile crossing from Santa Catalina Island to the California mainland. With Darren Miller, Lynn Kubasek, Barbara Held and Tom Hecker on his crew, he was bound to rip off a fast
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Melodee Nugent, Anthony McCarley and Janet Manning entered the realm of the unknown, untested and unfamiliar when they completed the 1st annual 30 km Three Rivers Marathon Swim organized by Darren Miller on September 13th. The 30 km Three Rivers Marathon Swim in the middle of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania is a
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Urban river swimming is a fast-building worldwide trend. For every long-running tradition like the Vibes & Scribes Lee Swim in Ireland that celebrated its 100th centennial anniversary this year, there are a number of locations around the world where urban river swims that run through large municipalities
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