Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Race directors David Barra and Rondi Davies, in collaboration New York Open Water, will present the longest swimming race in the world between June 26th through July 3: the 6th annual 7-day, 7-stage 8 Bridges Hudson River Swim. As Barra is fond of saying, "Anything worth doing is worth overdoing." From
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Five swimmers in Ireland completed their Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming and were celebrated in Cork, Ireland this weekend. The accomplished quintet included Fionnuala Walsh from County Clare and Ciaran Byrne, Ned Denison, Eddie Irwin and Gábor Molnár from Sandycove Island, County Cork. The kickoff in
Thomas W. Kofler became the first Italian and 70th person in history to achieve the Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming with his successful Catalina Channel swim on July 29th. Under glassy conditions from beginning to end, Kofler landed on sandy Abalone Cove on the California mainland 14 hours 10 minutes after starting on California Island. "Before
