Courtesy of Swimming Australia, Brighton Beach, Adelaide. 23-year-old Eric Hedlin of Canada flew a long way to win two races at the 2017 Australian Open Water Swimming Championships on Brighton Beach in Adelaide. He first won the 10 km race by nearly 3 minutes over Australian Olympian Jarrod Poort on the first day. Then on the last day, he outswam
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. OceanFit is offering its last Bondi Beach clinic for the season this weekend. OceanFit has brought its clinics to Newcastle, Coffs Harbour, Gold Coast, Wollongong and Manly as well as its morning ocean fitness classes on Bondi Beach. "We’ll give you and your family the confidence to live your dream ocean
Images courtesy of NBCOlympics.com of the Olympic triathlon in Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro. After hearing for months on end in the American press, repeatedly and critically about how the 2016 Rio Olympic Games were going to fail with all kinds of problems from the Zika virus to the dangerous waters of Copacabana, the Games ended successfully and
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Will the men from the Commonwealth - Jarod Poort (Australia), Kane Radford (New Zealand), and Richard Weinberger (Canada) all face each other again at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games in Copacabana Beach? Time will tell. Of the 53 countries of the Commonwealth, it looks like Australia, Canada, Malaysia, New
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Jordan Wilimovsky is on a roll as the hottest male open water swimmer on the planet. After winning the USA Swimming Championships, FINA World Championships, and the RCP Tiburon Mile, the redshirt senior from Northwestern University took a long airplane ride to the 2016 Australian Open Water Championships in
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. There will be another competitive international clash in New Zealand at this weekend's 2.9 km State Harbour Crossing where Australian Olympian Jarrod Poort [on left] will compete against Olympian and New Zealand Ocean Swim Series leader Yasunari Hirai of Japan, George O'Brien of Australia, and top-ranked
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. When it comes to images of freestyle, the Gold Coast and the Australian surf, the combination culminates in the dominating figures of Australian watermen and iconic lifesavers. So when the Pan Pacific Swimming Championships culminates in the 10 km marathon swim on the Gold Coast, the expectations of the
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Portugal's Setúbal Bay along the Portuguese coast 40 km south from Lisbon was site of today's most competitive and exciting FINA 10KM Marathon Swimming World Cup race. Jarrod Poort of Australia pulled out a very close victory over Allan do Carmo of Brazil and a pair of Germans Thomas Lurz and Christian
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The stakes couldn’t be higher for the best open water swimmers Down Under heading into the penultimate round of the State New Zealand Ocean Swim Series at Mt Maunganui this Saturday. There have been different race winners in each of the four events so far this season in both the women's and men's series.
Jarrod Poort is gradually coming into his own among elite open water swimmers as he upset a world-class field at the 10 km Swim The Swan event at the BHP Aquatic Super Series in Perth's Swan River yesterday. The results are as follows: 1. Jarrod Poort 1:54:16.00 2. Simon Huitenga 1:54:19.59 3. Rhys Mainstone 1:54:23.79 4. Kane Radford 1:54:25.02 5.
