Open Water

It’s been a landmark year for open water swimming in Barbados. The Barbados Aquatic Sports Association (BASA) successfully hosted two major regional meets both with open water swimming races, a local charity took to the sea to raise funds through a well subscribed open water relay race and most rece...

Brazil's Ana Marcela Cunha and Italy's Marcello Guidi won the 5K open water races at the inaugural Association of National Olympic Committees World Beach Games in Qatar. The races started before 6 a.m. in Katara Beach as Guidi won the men's race at 55:21 ahead of Russia's Denis Adeev (55:26) and Ger...

Due to extreme water temperatures in Doha, Qatar, Team Canada has decided not to allow Canadian athletes to compete in the 5K open water swimming races at the ANOC World Beach Games. U.S. swimmers pulled out of the race earlier this week. Ahead of the races set for early Sunday morning, Swimming Can...

Memory Of Fran Crippen Demands Safety-First Response From USA Swimming Haley Anderson and Ashley Twichell, the top two American women open water swimmers, will not race at the ANOC World Beach Games in Qatar this weekend as planned because water temperatures are expected to exceed upper limits impos...

The World Open Water Swim Association is offering an exciting weekend of activities in Redondo Beach, California at the Seaside Lagoon. General Admission tickets include 2 days of activities, amazing speakers, a beer garden, vendors, food and the ultimate kid zone! The Workshops, Hawaiian Luau Dinne...

By Kat Hall, Swimming World Contributor When I heard that Kathie Hewko swam under the Golden Gate Bridge 94 times, I assumed she was one of those glory-seeking, humble-bragging strivers. An over-Instagrammed, Type-A adrenaline junkie. I had never swum under the Golden Gate, but I knew it was a treac...

Moritz Bartels of Grand Valley State University and Taylor Pike of Texas A&M captured individual titles while Rice University and Grand Valley won team titles at the College Swimming Coaches Association of America — CSCAA Open Water Championship — at Lone Star Lake in Lawrence, Kansas. The top ...

After six legs in South America, North America and Europe, the 2019 edition of the FINA UltraMarathon Swim Series concluded in Capri / Napoli (ITA) this weekend (Saturday September 7) as Italy established itself as the dominating nation of both the men and women's races. The Italian swimmers secured...

The fifth and final leg of the LEN Open Water Cup in Copenhagen offered the usual excitements for the swimmers who covered the 6K course swimming in the canals around the Danish Parliament. It ended in a double German win: Soeren Meissner was the best among the men and compatriot Leonie Beck came fi...

By Molly Griswold, Swimming World College Intern. “We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.” -JK Rowling Division can occur both within and between sports teams due to a variety factors. Unification, however, plays a vital role in success for all sports, including swi...

By Kate Walter, Swimming World Intern.  Every summer, swimmers from all walks of life flock to Lake Tahoe, Ca., to compete in the Olympic Club Trans Tahoe Relay. Olympians, Masters swimmers and past college teammates alike eagerly await to partake in this annual event. Founded in 1976, the Trans Tah...

At approximately 4:55pm EST on Monday, August 19, Becca Mann became the first person in history to complete the historic Maui Rui Triple Channel swim. The course entails 64 kilometers from Maui to Molokai to Lanai, then back to Maui. The completion took Mann approximately 22 hours and was tracked th...

Jaimie Monahan and Cameron Bellamy, both superstars of the open water swimming world will attend the 8th annual Barbados Open Water Festival to be hosted in Carlisle Bay in November.  Jaimie Monahan renowned ultra-marathon and ice swimmer will make her first appearance at the Festival.  The New York...

A 16-year-old’s dramatic gold-medal effort led the way for Team Canada on Day 1 of the UANA Junior Open Water Swimming Championships Friday as Kenna Smallegange, of the Burlington, Ont., Aquatic Devilrays, won the 14-17 year-old women’s 7.5 kilometre race in a photo finish. Her time of 1:3...

By Claire Alongi, Swimming World College Intern. Swimming is a cool summer activity, right? For many the image of paradise is being surrounded by a cloud of sunscreen while lazing by the ocean or pool before slipping into the water to escape the sweltering heat. However, competitive swimmers are ver...

By Molly Griswold, Swimming World College Intern. Colorful fish reflect off the beams of sunlight. Jellyfish slide past your body and through your fingers. Currents sweep you into the choppy waves. Sharks circle in the dark abyss below. Despite all of the unpredictable conditions of open water swimm...

The open water competition in the 2019 Pan American Games began with the 10K race from Peru. Ecuador shined with two top-five finishes, including the gold medal. Ecuador’s Esteban Enderica claimed victory in the men’s 10K. He finished in 1:53.46.7 to hold off the field by more than 13 seconds. Argen...

The open water competition from the 2019 FINA World Championships concluded on Friday with the 25K. France's Axel Reymond won the men's race for his second straight World title in the event and Brazil's Ana Marcela Cunha won the women's race for her third straight title in the event. The race was pl...

Ten women and ten men have officially been granted the opportunity to race in the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games in the 10K open water swim. Florian Wellbrock was the first man awarded the honor by winning the 2019 World Championship race in 1:47.55.90. Germany had a strong showing with their first- and t...

The swimming portion of the 2019 FINA World Championships opened with the open water men’s 5K. Hungary’s Kristof Rasovzky earned the gold medal with a swim of 53.22.10 to finish 10 seconds ahead of the rest of the field by 10 seconds for a dominating victory to open the World Championships on Saturd...