Courtesy of Ger Kennedy and Bolot Bochkarev, Yakutsk, Russia. Yakutsk in the Sakha Republic, Russia, located about 450 km south of the Arctic Circle, was the site of Irish ice swimmer Ger Kennedy's most hardy and risk-taking open water adventure. After his ice mile and other ice swimming endeavors performed on the surface of the water in Murmansk, Tyumen,
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. In Krasnoyarsk, Russia, concurrent to the International Ice Swimming Association's Russian 1000m Championships, the First Conference on the Scientific Understanding of the Human Body and Its Adaptations to Ice and Winter Swimming was held. "What we have achieved in the ice is subject to so much
Photos courtesy of Nuala Moore who competed in near 0ºC water in the 200m and 450m events at at the World Winter Swimming Championships in Tyumen, Russia. Copyright © 2016 by World Open Water Swimming Association
Winter World Swimming Championships in Tyumen, Russia, courtesy of the International Ice Swimming Association
Photo courtesy of Robbie Bailey, Bailey Photography. Capri Djatiasmoro of New York flew to Siberia in order to participate in the 2016 Winter Swimming World Championships. She joined 1,275 other athletes from 42 nations in Tyumen, Russia. Djatiasmoro was in and out of the near 0ºC water constantly throughout the competition, competing in the 25m
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The Russian swimmers are swimming very well in their homeland at the 2016 Winter Swimming World Championships in Tyumen, Russia where 1,275 athletes from 42 nations are competing in near 0ºC water. Dominant in every age group and standing frequently on the age group awards podium, the Russian cold water
Courtesy of Colin Hill of Chillswim in Tyumen, Russia at the 2016 Winter Swimming World Championships
Courtesy of Nuala Moore and WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Vasilly Mosin, born in Kazakhstan, is a member of the Pingvin club Ivanovo. He competed in the 25m and 50m freestyle events and 25m breaststroke events at the inaugural Ice Swimming World Championships in Murmansk, Russia and swam the fastest 25m and 50m freestyles at the 2014 and 2015
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The 10th Winter Swimming World Championships will be held in the Russian city of Tyumen in March 8th - 12th 2016. The 10th Winter Swimming World Championships in the capital of Siberia is expected to attract 1,500 athletes from more than 40 countries including 900 foreign and 600 Russian swimmers. Tatyana
Courtesy of Mo O'Reilly from Murmansk, Russia. Top photos courtesy of Ella Antibetova of Murmansk; lower photo courtesy of Nuala Moore. Albert Sobirov, the Russian who came in a surprising second to Christof Wandratsch of Germany and upset Henri Kaarma of Estonia at the World Ice Swimming Championships in Murmansk, is a humble guy from Siberia who swam his
