Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Karen Weir was asked by her brother to join him at the 2010 Great Scottish Swim. After her first foray in the open water, she was totally hooked. And has never looked back. In addition to swim in her native Scotland, she has traveled to Slovenia, Estonia, Latvia, and literally from Uruguay to
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. After years of growing and perfecting the Great London Swim, Great East Swim, Great London Swim, Great Manchester Swim, Great North Swim, and Great Scottish Swim), The Great Swim is now adding a 5 km run after its 800m open water swims in its new SwimRun events. The SwimRun events will be held at the Great
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Alexander Studzinski won the Great Scottish Swim, competing with 2,500 other open water swimmers in Loch Lomond yesterday. It was a fitting farewell to the German marathon swimmer who is now off with his fiancé Beatrix Eisel to Hawaii for their wedding before their Maui Channel Swim. Beatrix, a former
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Shelagh Watson is a pool and loch swimmer from Torrance, Scotland. After she stopping working in 2011, she channeled her energies to swimming. "I started swimming regularly in a local loch and did the Great North Swim in Windermere and the Great Scottish Swim in Loch Lomond in 2013." It was always a dream
Scott McQuade from Wishaw, North Lanarkshire effectively spends his time at work managing teams of virtual, remote and direct as a Global Programme Manager at Dell, but the Scottish swimmer had gotten out of touch with the water for 20 years. "A friend at work wanted to do the Great Scottish Swim in Loch Lomond and talked me into it," McQuade recalls as he
Karen Weir of Paisley, Scotland swam as a child, but only in the last few years have she returned to her aquatic roots. "In 2010, my brother asked if I wanted to do the Great Scottish Swim with him." She has not stopped since, swimming in many locations throughout Scotland, England, Ireland and Australia. "Along with all the outdoor swimming I do, I
2013 Team Pursuit world champion Christian Reichert of Germany and former FINA World Cup winner and Olympian Chad Ho from South Africa are guaranteed to lock into a mano-a-mano battle in Loch Lomond at the Great Scottish Swim tomorrow. In the the Great Scottish Swim, the two open water stars will be joined by 2,000 others, including the British Olympic
The Great Swim Series has launched its new website with all the information on its Great Swim Training Day on June 8th, the Great North Swim on June 14-16th, the Great East Swim on June 22nd, the Great Manchester Swim on July 20th, the Great Scottish Swim on August 24th, and the Great London Swim on August 31st. Great Swim Training Day will be held at the
Tom Allen and Christine Jennings are picking up confidence, steam and motivation as they head into the Olympic year with earned hard-fought victories in the annual British Gas Great Scottish Swim in Strathclyde Park.Christine and Olympian Jana Pechanova of the Czech Republic swapped lead positions until Christian edged Jana at the end in 18:06:11 with other
