Last Saturday, Northwestern University All-American swimmer Eric Nilsson won the World Open Water Swimming Association 10 Mile World Championship at the Kingdom Swim in Lake Memphremagog, Vermont. After pushing himself to the limit and being pushed by teenager Feodor Orlov over the entire 16.2 km course, we asked the veteran about the Kingdom Swim.
With the average age of open water swimmers estimated to be 36 years old (based on an analysis of the results of 30 large mass participation open water swims on 5 continents), it is safe to assume that many of these adult swimmers enjoy all kinds of beverages at the appropriate times. If open water swims were the equivalent of cocktail drinks, what would
Like their counterparts throughout the world of triathlon, scientists at the University of Portsmouth in the United Kingdom looked into why more athletes die during the swim leg of triathlons compared to during the cycling or running legs. Professor Mike Tipton and his colleagues at the Extreme Environments Laboratory in the University of Portsmouth’s
WOWSA proposed rules for breaststroke swimming in the open water.
With swimmers from Africa and Europe to the Americas, Oceania and Asia doing more and more non-freestyle swims in the open water, the issue of how to define butterfly, backstroke and breaststroke in the open water has been a topic in the global open water swimming community for some time.* The World Open Water Swimming Association developed an initial
From Florida to California, from the United Nations to the Queen Mary, the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame and World Open Water Swimming Association has held its ceremonies in various locations from the West Coast to the East Coast in the US. For the first time in its history since 1961, the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame will
Mike McCormick, State Director of Best Buddies Hawaii, and his staff and volunteers work daily to create opportunities for one-to-one friendships, integrated employment and leadership development for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. "Our programs are flourishing and continuing to grow in our fourth year in Hawaii. This year we
Creativity, commitment and courage. These are the common threads among the 2012 World Open Water Swimming Award recipients this year: Stephen Redmond, the 2012 World Open Water Swimming Man of the Year from Ireland. Annaleise Carr, the 2012 World Open Water Swimming Woman of the Year from Canada. Juan Ignacio Martínez Fernández-Villamil, the 2012 World
Thomas Lurz was the well-deserving LEN (Ligue Européenne de Natation) Male Open Water Swimmer of the Year. For the fourth time (2007, 2009, 2011 and 2012), the German juggernaut was 3 seconds from a gold medal at the Olympic 10km Marathon Swim as he won his 27th international medal (Olympics, World and European Championships) in London. [Read
Éva Risztov, the Olympic 10km Marathon Swim gold medalist, who led much of the way in the Serpentine in front of over 30,000 spectators,was the well-deserving LEN (Ligue Européenne de Natation) Female Open Water Swimmer of the Year. [Read more...] Copyright © 2012 by Open Water Source
