Remembering The Competitive Races Of The King and Queen of the Sea Sponsored by KAATSU Global, Huntington Beach, California. With the COVID-19 pandemic hitting Brazil hard, we remember the great races we witnessed for several years at the King and Queen of the Sea (Rei e Rainha do Mar) event on Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In 2014, American
100 Things Every Open Water Swimmer Should Know Courtesy of WOWSA, Redondo Beach. The World Open Water Swimming Association offers a list of 100 Things Every Open Water Swimmer Should Know. Its coaches will share this information and tidbits with newbies and veterans at its upcoming Open Water Summit in Redondo Beach in Southern California on October 4th -
Courtesy of Lexie Kelly at the 2016 Rie e Rainha do Mar (King and Queen of the Sea), Copacabana Beach, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Professional swimmers have various dryland rituals before their race: Poliana Okimoto, Allan Do Carmo, Betina Lorscheitter, Luis Rogerio Arapiraca, Chip Peterson, Haley Anderson, Ferry Weertman, Esmee Vermeulen, Dario Verani and
Courtesy of Yasunari Hirai at the 2016 Rie e Rainha do Mar (King and Queen of the Sea), Copacabana Beach, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Lexie Kelly of California and Guillermo Bertola of Argentina won the Beach Biathlon (1 km swim + 2.5 km beach sand run) for the third consecutive year at the 2016 Rie e Rainha do Mar (King and Queen of the Sea) event on
Courtesy of Lexie Kelly at the 2016 Rie e Rainha do Mar (King and Queen of the Sea), Copacabana Beach, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. This week's Rie e Rainha do Mar (King and Queen of the Sea) race on Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro kicked off with its traditional grid race. The grid race is a short, in-and-out sprint race around a buoy in order to set the
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Ferry Weertman swam the most dramatic, most exciting, most impressive race of his life in winning the 10 km marathon swim at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games. His out-touching of Greek silver medalist Spyridon Gianniotis represented the closest race during his short, but storied, career. Weertman will return
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Of all the American reporters who have written about the bay and ocean waters of Rio de Janeiro, only Bonnie Ford has taken the time and effort to visit Rio herself and investigate the situation. Her article is published here on ESPN. We visited Copacabana Beach with Ford and the investigative crew from
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Over 3,700 people participated in the 2015 King and Queen of the Sea (Rei e Rainha do Mar) on Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro this weekend. The start of the women's 2 km Classic Race is shown above. Copyright © 2015 by World Open Water Swimming Association
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Lucky Meisenheimer reported that David Head and Kimberly Hawkins had a special day before one of their swims in Orlando's Lake Cane. Head proposed to Hawkins who has crossed Lake Cane over 1,000 times during her career. "We have had many married couples swim the lake and we have had folks meet at the lake
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. At yesterday's grid race at Rio de Janeiro's King and Queen of the Sea (Rei e Rainha do Mar*), elite athletes had to run in and out of Copacabana Beach. We followed two-time Olympian Poliana Okimoto of Brazil, world championship swimmer Bettina Lorscheitter, FINA World Cup champion Christine Jennings,
