Open Water

Greek open-water ace Spyros Gianniotis will lead the shoal out for The Authentic Marathon Swim at Artemision this September, 2,500 years after Skyllias and Hydna, recorded by Herodotus as the first long-distance swimmers in history, swam the same course. The Authentic Marathon Swim, originally due t...

In one of the first sanctioned marathon swims since the falling of COVID-19 restrictions, Henry Palmer completed a swim across the Santa Barbara Channel this week. Palmer finished the swim from Oxnard, Calif., to Anacapa Island in six and a half hours. He covered 14.3 miles in what was originally pl...

Malta Olympian Neil Agius has completed a swim from Sicily to Malta in a record-setting time this week. Agius departed from Punta Braccetto in Ragusa, Sicily in in the early morning hours of Thursday. He arrived in Balluta Bay in St. Julian’s at 9:21 am on Friday, a time of 28 hours, seven minutes a...

How Open Water Swimming Can Boost Pool Performance As swimming pool availability across the country has been at an all-time low the past few months due to COVID-19 pool closures, swimmers have struggled to find a way to train. However, as summer is getting underway, open water swimming is a pote...

Argentine open water swimmer Guillermo Bertola was handed a four-year ban FINA and stripped of his 2019 Pan American Games silver medal. The infraction Bertola was found guilty of was receiving a transfusion of his mother’s blood shortly before a race in 2018. The ban, announced by FINA Wednesday, w...

By Taylor Byers, Swimming World College Intern. There are countless different brands, styles, sizes and colors of swim bags. Swim bags are indestructible, surviving anything from the hot summer sun, a winter storm, the puddles of water on the pool deck and the soaring splashes of water from a swimme...

USA Swimming has released guidelines for open water swimming as swimmers start to use different training options with pools in many states still closed because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Many swimmers are using open water as an alternative to get back in the water. That means some swimmers who are no...

In 1927, 17-year old Canadian George Young famously won The Wrigley Ocean Marathon across the Catalina Channel sponsored by the chewing gum magnate William Wrigley Jnr.  Had Charles ‘Zimmy’ Zibleman won the race, the changes that would have brought about in Marathon and Disability Swimming might...

The 28th annual one mile Flowers Sea Swim in the Cayman Islands, which was originally scheduled for June 13, has been pushed back to October 1 - 5, 2020. The organization sent out a letter to members regarding the tentative dates. The shift to October is in hopes that it will be safe by then to cond...

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Micha Shaw won the USA Swimming national open water swimming championships in 2008, qualifying for the Olympic 10K Marathon Swim qualification race. She upset eventual two-time Olympian Chloe Sutton and a number of other top American swimming stars in...

The latest reevaluation of the calendar by Swimming Canada has led to the cancellation of Canadian Open Water Championships. Swimming Canada is also evaluating contingencies for Olympic Trials in the pool to be held in late June. The organization announced Tuesday that the Open Water event, schedule...

Leonie Beck, of Germany, and Marc-Antoine Olivier, of France, topped the FINA Marathon Swim World Series in Doha today as Europeans claimed five of the six podium places in a show of continental open-water strength. European dominance in the 10km battles extended to six places among the top 10 women...

Chad Ho targets and eighth Midmar crown Thanks to Karien Jonckheere for helping to compile our Midmar Mile reports Local hero Chad Ho, the former World 5km champion and Olympic marathon swimmer from KwaZulu-Natal, will be chasing an elusive eighth title when he takes on a strong international field ...

After two sell-out years Ocean Swim Fiji is back on 24-28 August 2020! This truly unique event is the perfect balance of ocean swims in stunning locations, flat-out relaxation, classic Fijian hospitality, exclusive social events and the chance to hone your skills with our special guest and Australia...

The North Carolina Swimming Hall of Fame will induct five members as the Class of 2020 in March. The honorees, announced Tuesday, are Peter Carney, Sid Cassidy, Pat Earey, Beth Harrell and Fritz Lehman. “Our Class of 2020 North Carolina Swimming Hall of Fame Inductees represent standouts in all leve...

Who could resist? "Swimmers Wanted: Looking for young guns to train with polar swimmer. Must be willing to swim and run hard. No tea breaks. No Hogmanay. Outer Hebrides 29 Dec to 8 Jan." That's how Lewis Pugh, "polar swimmer", ocean advocate and International Hall of Fame Presidential Honor Award re...

Wild Swimming is becoming ever more popular. Below we dip a toe into the Winter Solstice swims in the Lake District of England. Some take the plunge into the cold, open waters in search of inner calm, a natural high and health (mental, blood circulation, muscular strength and even pain management), ...

This is the Swim Poll of the Week for Thursday, December 12, 2019, sponsored by Strechcordz Swim Training Products. In our last poll, we wanted to know: Should FINA support calls to move the 2020 Olympic open water marathon from Tokyo to a cooler place as a safety backup? The Olympic marathon venue ...

As open water swimming moves toward the Olympic year, FINA has announced the calendar for the 2020 edition of the FINA Marathon Swim World Series, which includes an 11-leg competition, taking place between February and October. The FINA Marathon Swim World Series will open on February 8, in Rosario,...

USA Safety Plea For Change In Tokyo 2020 Swim Marathon Venue Catherine Kase, head coach to the USA Olympic Open Water Team, and the American Swimming Coaches Association (ASCA) of which she is a member, have joined the chorus of key stakeholders calling for the 2020 Olympic swim marathon venue to be...