IISA founder and ice swimming visionary Ram Barkai announced the livestreaming of this week's International Ice Swimming Association IISA 4th World Championship. The virtual livecast will feature all three competition days between February 4th - 6th of the world championships: see here. All the details of the Championships are posted here. The
Courtesy of Great Big Story in cooperation with Ram Barkai and the International Ice Swimming Association. The Great Big Story covered an ice kilometer event with Ram Barkai and his colleagues the International Ice Swimming Association at the South African Ice Swimming Championships, a high-altitude swim at 3,050 meters. "We could't miss an icy
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Petar Stoychev of Bulgaria and Christof Wandratsch were rivals in professional marathon swims and across the English Channel. The mighty duo are among the fastest channel swimmers in history, holding two of the three fastest times in history: 6 hours 57 minutes by Stoychev in 2007 and 7 hours 3 minutes
Courtesy of Nuala Moore from inside the Polar Circle. The average age of the fastest men in the 1000m race at the recent International Ice Swimming Championships in Murmansk, Russia was 35-48 while the average age for the fastest women was nearly half or 18-24. But young or older, their times for swimming in 0.8°C water and -7°C air temperatures were
Courtesy of WOWSA in Lapland Lake Semenovskoye, Russia. Great athletes ride huge towering waves around the world risking death of every ride over 50 feet. Great athletes dive down to the depths that crush their lungs to the size of small fruit. Great athletes swim mind-boggling long distances despite the threat of jellyfish, sharks, venomous fish and
Courtesy of WOWSA, in Lapland Lake Semenovskoye, Russia. Athletes at the Olympics, world championships and major international events are required to gather in the ready room, a designated indoor or outdoor area or indoor room where the competitive swimmers gather before the race, often to listen to pre-race instructions from race officials or to store
Reporting and photos courtesy of Nuala Moore of Ireland. Elina Makïnen was non-stop at the recent Pirita Open, 2015 Estonian Winter Swimming Championships. She completed the 450m endurance swim in a quick 6 minutes 33 seconds. She completed 1,100m in 18 minutes. She led off the winning Viimsi Veeklubi relay team with Henri Kaarma, Bruno Nopponen and
