Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The June issue of the Open Water Swimming Magazine has lots of articles on how families come together in the sport of open water swimming. Husbands and wives, sons and daughters, fathers and mothers, brothers and sisters all coming together in various open water swimming venues around the world. Article
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Nadine and Christine Reichert are one of the many husband-and-wife teams on the global open water swimming circuit. The German pair compete on the FINA 10K Marathon Swimming World Cup and FINA Open Water Swimming Grand Prix professional circuits. But Nadine took time to give birth to their first child.
With the sport of open water swimming growing in all its various niches, the World Open Water Swimming Association conducted a comprehensive survey to estimate the size and demographic trends of the global community including ice swimmers, extreme swimmers, stage swimmers, fitness swimmers, marathon swimmers, competitive age-group swimmers, elite
The athletes at the Queen of the Sea event in Rio de Janeiro this week faced all kinds of weather: torrential downpours, bright sunny skies, stiff winds, summer humidity, and water that ranged from 16ºC to 18ºC. But the skies opened up at the start of the Queen of the Sea as sunlight rained down on the 8 pros lined up from Canada, Germany, USA and Brazil.
"Our wedding was perfect," explains Nadine Reichert about her big day with fellow German marathon swimmer Christian Reichert. "I was never more happy. The weather, the cake, the food, the speech at the church, it was just perfect." The married duo both placed second in the 2011 FINA 10K Marathon Swimming World Cup circuit. Never before had a
The Queen of the Sea (Desafio Rei e Rainha do Mar) is going to have to swim and run - very, very fast - for 5 laps of 850 meters in Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro on December 16th. The competitors will swim around the 800m loop course and then run 50m up and down the sand on Copacabana Beach 5 times in front of thousands of fans and a live television
Ana Marcela Cunha of Brazil handily won her second FINA 10km Marathon Swimming World Cup title with a season-long dominating performance, from South America to Europe, North America to Asia. After a third place finish in Santos (Brazil), a sixth in Viedma (Argentina) in the first two legs of the World Cup circuit, Ana Marcela really started to pick up
If it is a one-mile swim, a set at the end of a workout, a 25km world championship race, the Olympics, or a FINA 10km Marathon Swimming World Cup, there is one thing that can be assured: Ana Marcela Cunha of Brazil will be racing as intensely as possible. She is a passionate competitor whose DNA is ideal for open water swimming. In the safe confines of a
Eilat's North beach in Israel will host its first open water competition as part of the FINA 10km Marathon Swimming World Cup circuit on April 1st. Similar to the upcoming Olympic Marathon Swimming 10 km in London, the Israeli organizers created a six-loop course of a 1.66 kilometer laps. The third of eight stops on the World Cup circuit will be another
VIEDMA, Argentina. In an innovative incentive for the professional marathon swimmers, the organizers of La Patagones Viedma World Cup event in Argentina and the Maratona Aquática Internacional de Santos - Unisanta World Cup event in Brazil combined points from both races and gave the top finishers an extra cash bonus. On the men's side, there were no
