Open Water

Hundreds of swimmers and volunteers are gearing up to dive in and make waves at the 7th annual Swim Across America – Motor City Mile open water swim on Friday, July 11, 2025, at the Belle Isle Beach House in Detroit. Participants can choose from .25-mile, .5-mile, 1-mile or 2-mile courses, and land ...

Beyond the Lane Lines: Finding Joy in Open Water Swimming Swimming doesn’t have to be a sport that ends after the club or college days. Thanks to its low-impact nature and wide-ranging health benefits, it's one of the few sports that can be enjoyed well into adulthood. It also provides an opportunit...

Former Team USA swimmer and NCAA champion Catherine Breed has announced a plan to "Swim California" in 2026. The swim will be the first known attempt to swim the full length of the California coast from Oregon to Mexico. Previously Breed has swam the English Channel, Lake Tahoe and Monterey Bay. ...

Lewis Pugh Completes Martha’s Vineyard ‘Shark Swim’ Circumnavigation British swimmer Lewis Pugh on Monday competed the first of its kind “Shark Swim” around Martha’s Vineyard. The swim, timed to the 50th anniversary of the release of the blockbuster Jaws, was planned to raise awareness of shark cons...

Germany's Oliver Klemet, Lea Boy Claim Open Water Cup 3K Sprint Knockout Titles Stop 2 of the World Aquatics Open Water Cup concluded from Ibiza, Spain, with the 3K knockout sprints. Germany's Oliver Klemet earned the gold medal with a finals time of 4:50.50. Hungary's David Bethlehem took the silve...

Claire Weinstein, Ivan Puskovitch Secure 5K Titles at U.S. Open Water Nationals There's a good chance that Claire Weinstein will represent the United States in the pool at this summer's World Championships in Singapore. After all, Weinstein has established herself as a regular on the Team USA roster...

Canada Nominates Emma Finlin, Eric Brown for World Championship Canada’s Emma Finlin and Eric Brown are in line for spots at the World Championships this summer in open water swimming after their finishes at the U.S. Open Water Championships on Friday. Finlin finished ninth in the women’s race in Sa...

Open Water Nationals: Brinkleigh Hansen, Claire Weinstein Go 1-2 for Worlds Spots Brinkleigh Hansen made a late surge to cross the finish line first in the women's 10K at the USA Swimming Open Water National Championships. She was not in the top three heading into the final lap but the 15-year-old f...

Katie Pumphrey to Replicate Bay to Baltimore Swim Katie Pumphrey is aiming to replicate her 24-mile Bay to Baltimore Swim, which she launched last year. Pumphrey announced on social media Thursday this year’s window, which will fall from May 18-23. She’ll swim from Chesapeake Bay Bridge to Harborpla...

Maya Merhige, 17, Adds Crossing of New Zealand’s Cook Strait American teenager Maya Merhige this weekend completed a crossing of the Cook Strait in New Zealand, the latest in the 17-year-old myriad open water feats. Merhige made the crossing in 14 hours, 8 minutes, 36 seconds on Friday, swimming 22 ...

Neil Agius, Sharon van Rouwendaal Honored at WOWSA Awards The World Open Water Swimming Association unveiled the 2024 WOWSA Awards this week, honoring the best in open-water swimming across six categories. Malta’s Neil Agius earned runner-up for Man of the Year and won the Performance of the Year Aw...

World Aquatics Launches Open Water Swimming World Rankings World Aquatics has launched, for the first time ever, its Open Water Swimming World Ranking system, creating new and exciting opportunities for athletes and National Federations, it announced on Wednesday. The World Aquatics Open Water Swimm...

New Zealand Marathon Swimmer Breanna Ward Achieves Triple CrownAnd Doing It For Shark Survival Inspirational New Zealand marathon swimmer and passionate ocean conservationist Breanna Ward has joined a select band of swimmers to complete the country’s triple crown of marathon crossings – her final s....

Sid Cassidy Named 2025 Benjamin Franklin Award Winner by CSCAA Sid Cassidy, a long-serving official and advocate for open water swimming, was named the 2025 recipient of the Benjamin Franklin Award by the College Swimming Coaches Association of America on Thursday. Cassidy has spent the last 20 year...

Keaton Jones Wins 4 Gold Medals, Sets 5 World Records at World Ice Swimming Championships American Olympian Keaton Jones set five world records and won four gold medals at this month’s International Ice Swimming Association World Championships. The Cal swimmer and Olympic finalist in the men’s 200 b...

Ben Wainman, Ella Dyson Win Titles at CSCAA Open Water Championships Saginaw Valley State’s Ben Wainman and Ella Dyson of Rice University took home individual titles Sunday at the CSCAA Open Water National Championship. Dyson successfully defended her title from 2022, the last edition of the meet, a...

World Aquatics Open Water World Cup to Open 2025 Season in Egypt World Aquatics on Tuesday announced the schedule for the 2025 Open Water World Cup, which will begin in February in Egypt. The first four stops on the five-event tour were released on Tuesday for the tour’s 19th season. They’ll start i...

Americans Joe Zemaitis, Gracie van der Byl Lead IMSHOF 2025 Class Americans Joe Zemaitis and Gracie van der Byl lead six honor swimmers in the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame Class of 2025. Joining them in being inducted next spring are honor swimmers Simon Ercoli of Italy, Steve Stieve...

Swimming Canada to Join USA Swimming’s 2025 Open Water Nationals Swimming Canada will partner with USA Swimming to use the latter’s 2025 Open Water Nationals to select its national team for the 2025 World Championships. The event will take place April 4-6 at Nathan Benderson Park in Sarasota, Fla. I...

The World Open Water Swimming Association (WOWSA) has banned Bulgarian swimmer Tsanko Tsankov from future world record ratification, claiming he falsified documents and claimed a false world record swim. Tsankov swam a 100K in the Danube River to celebrate Unification Day on Sept. 6, and later claim...