Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. With so many individuals getting into open water swimming, especially members of the Baby Boom generation, certain designations like the Half Century Club and divisions over 50 years old are booming with new participants. From a downward perspective, the open water swimming community is improving is
"Every swim is hard and no fun," recalls Dieter Loeliger who swims the annual Rottnest Channel Swim in order to keep fit physically and mentally. "I was an asthmatic, still am, the swim can help with my asthma to a degree." Since the inception of the race in 1991, more than 16,500 relay swimmers and over 1,000 solo swimmers have crossed the Rottnest
The World Swimming Majors has compiled the data on thousands of open water swimmers in 30 major marathon swims around the world. The 30 events are listed here. The data is organized and searchable by age, country, gender and location (e.g., English Channel). While the data base is not complete, it is interesting to see where swimmers rank. The more swims
The English Channel has its Half Century Club, a group of individuals who have crossed the English Channel past their 50th birthday. The Strait of Gibraltar also has its own Half Century Club as does the Cook Strait, Molokai Channel, and Catalina Channel.But it is Down Under in Western Australia, where the Fountain of Youth has been found somewhere between
