The record holders of the Maratón Acuática Internacional Santa Fe - Coronda read like the Who's Who of professional marathon swimming. In the first edition of 1961, Carlos Larriera of Argentina set the original record in exactly 8 hours down the Coronda River. It took 13 years for someone to break that original mark. Fellow Argentine Claudio Plit finished
Champions, Adventurers, Record Holders And Endurers Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Paul Asmuth had a mixture of talents as an open water swimmer. The International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame Honour Swimmer fit all four general types of great open water swimmers: 1. Champions 2. Adventurers 3. Record Holders 4. Endurers Asmuth won
For professional open water swimmers competing at the highest level, the Olympic distance of 10 kilometers is their focus. However, as swimmers need to develop different skills and mindsets to reach their potential in the 10K, competing in 5K and 25K races may also be added into the mix. Both these distances are contested at the World Championships, where
Petar Stoychev was the first person to break 7 hours in the English Channel. Trent Grimsey became the second person to break 7 hours in the 18.2 nautical mile (20.9 statute mile) Channel. But how do these swims among the world's elite compare to the fastest times of its near-equivalent in the Pacific Ocean, the 17.5nm (20.2 statute mile) Catalina
The design of the poster of the Descenso a Nado de la RÃa de Navia is clever and historical. The poster incorporates the signatures of the 54 previous winners including 11-time winner and International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame Honour Swimmer David Meca as well as the two Spanish representatives at the 2012 Olympic marathon swim, Francisco Kiko Hervás
Vicko Soljan, race director for the Faros Maraton, provided the all-time fastest times at the Croatian International Long Distance Swimming Championship between 1976 and 2011. Alexander Studzinski of Germany and Linsy Heister of Netherlands are the fastest man and woman in history. 1. Alexander Studzinski, Germany, 3:01:55 2. Vladimir Dyatchin, Russia,
