= Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Irish ice swimmer ice swimmer Nuala Moore was awarded the Masters Award Outsider Adventurer of the Year for 2016 by Outsider Magazine at the Sugar Club in Dublin last night. Luminaries of the climbing, running, sailing, mountaineering, triathlon, cycling, paramotoring, wakeboarding, skiing, biking,
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Three female swimmers are up for consideration as the most mind-boggling adventurers among a slew of accomplished athletes in the Irish outdoor and adventure scene in 2016: Rachel Lee [shown swimming the English Channel on left], channel swimmer Sabrina Wiedmer, and ice swimmer Nuala Moore. The awards
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Sabrina Wiedmer is versatile, living a global aquatic life. In 2013, the 27-year-old Swiss started off her open water swimming career with a 16 km Cork to Cobh Swim in Ireland that took her 3 hours 10 minutes. She still holds the record for the fastest time on this course. Over the winter, Wiedmer
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Sabrina Wiedmer has been ramping up her swimming and really came into her own during 2016. Early in the year during winter, she tied the existing women's world record in the 1 km ice swim with a 13 minute 58 second effort in January in Wild Water Armagh in Northern Ireland. Her swim in 4.5°C water was
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. June 29th was a very successful day on the North Channel. "Two boats crossed two different parts of the North Channel and both were successful," recalls Pádraig Mallon of Infinity Channel Swimming and Piloting Services. Sabrina Wiedmer of Switzerland became the first female to successfully swim solo across
Courtesy of Fergal Somerville at Cork Distance Week, Ireland. The enchanting Sandycove Island, Kinsale, Co. Cork in Ireland calls open water swimmers from around the world to Cork Distance Week, a week of swimming, training and creating lifelong friendships. On Saturday, the first swim of the camp organised by Ned Denison, and International Ice Swimming
