Swimming Around Africa Courtesy of OpenWater Africa, Lake Malawi, Malawi, Mozambique, and Tanzania. Following in the wake of Lewis Pugh (9 hours 52 minutes in 1992, Dr. Otto Thaning (10 hours 5 minutes in 1992), Abigail Brown (9 hours 45 minutes in 2010), Milko van Gool (8 hours 46 minutes in 2013), Kaitlin Harthoorn (9 hours 17 minutes in 2013), Jean
The History Of The Bangla Channel Courtesy of Shwaroz Adventure, Bangla Channel, Bangladesh. The 16.1 km course across the Bangla Channel, known as the International Bangla Channel Marathon Swim, was created in 2006 by Hamidul Haque [shown above]. A trio of swimmers pioneered the inaugural crossing on January 14th 2006 the channel including Lipton
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Milko van Gool completed a 44 km solo swim from Medemblik-Stavoren-Medemblik in the Ijsselmeer in 13 hours 51 minutes. Copyright © 2015 by World Open Water Swimming Association
Milko van Gool is on the move again. The Dutch open water swimmer completed the English Channel in 2011 (10 hours 22 minutes), crossed Lake Malawi in 2013, and set the men's record for crossing the North Channel from Ireland to Scotland this July in 10 hours 34 minutes. Professionally, van Gool is employed by the European Commission and has been assigned a
In point-to-point swims in lakes or along the coastline or in channel swims, swimmers generally have 3 basic goals: walk in, swim across, and walk out. But there are times when the last goal is impossible due to a variety of factors. In Milko van Gool's North Channel swim from Ireland to Scotland this July when he set a world record in 10 hours 34 minutes,
Milko Van Gool, who already holds the record for the fastest swim across Lake Malawi in Africa, set his second open water swimming record as he blazed across the 21-mile North Channel in 10 hours 34 minutes. In swimming from Ireland to Scotland, he took down one of the longest standing male open water swim standards on record. His time of the Dutch
Lewis Pugh (1992), Otto Thaning (1992) and Abigail Brown (2010) were pioneers in a warm-water lake swim in Africa. They have all swum across Lake Malawi. The lake, the third largest in Africa and the eighth largest lake in the world, is located between Malawi, Mozambique, and Tanzania. Kaitlin Harthoorn of the USA and Milko van Gool of the Netherlands
Milko van Gool of the Netherlands was among the 15 nominees for the 2012 World Open Water Swimming Man of the Year that were announced today. [Read more...] Copyright © 2012 by Open Water Source
The Everest Academy in Bangladesh will hold its first international marathon swim this week on March 17th: the 16.1K International Bangla Channel Marathon Swim across the Bangla Channel. In addition to the swimmers who will do the one-way crossing, Lipton Sarkar and English Channel swimmer Milko van Gool (shown on left) from the Netherlands will attempt a
