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Coverage of the World Championships is sponsored by Wylas Timing. Visit our landing page for more. Jordan Wilimovsky of the United States became the first of 10 2016 Rio Olympians as the winner of the men's 10K open water race at the 2015 FINA World Championships. Wilimovsky turned in a sizzling tim...

The latest issue of Swimming World Magazine is now available for download in the Swimming World Vault! Non-Subscribers Can Download This Issue Here 50 Swimmers, 6 Medals: Tokyo Olympics Open Water Preview By Dan D'Addona The Tokyo Olympics will mark the fourth occasion that open water swimmin...

The Soak - Swim News In Brief Collated weekly Swimming World soaks up snippets from the realm of water sports around the world in a one-stop digest updated each day of every passing week. If you have a snippet of news for us, let us know: editorial@swimmingworld.com The Week of April 13 - 19, 202...

British open water swimmer Jack Burnell has announced his retirement less than eight weeks before the marathon qualifier for the Tokyo Olympics is scheduled to take place. The 2016 European 10k silver medallist has brought to an end a career in which he has secured European and World Cup medals as w...

The Netherlands’ Ferry Weertman won Olympic gold in the men’s 10k open water after touching out Greece’s Spiros Gianniotis in a furious sprint to the finish Tuesday morning at Copacabana Beach in Rio. Gianniotis pulled away from a crowded pack of more than eight swimmers with about 100 meters to go,...

Doha, Qatar, will host its first-ever FINA/HOSA Marathon Swim World Series event on Saturday March 17, with the turquoise waters of Doha’s iconic Corniche providing a stunning setting for reigning Olympic and World Champions to go ahead in the 10km open water races. Doha will open the FINA/HISA Mara...

Hungary's Kristof Rasovszky and Haley Anderson of the U.S. were the fastest in Setubal (POR) on Saturday June 9, on the occasion of the third FINA/HOSA Marathon Swim World Series 2018. Rasovszky touched home first in 1h55m57s53 to clinch the gold, while Mario Sanzullo of Italy took silver, clocking ...

When Jack Burnell announced his retirement from open water swimming, his goal was to surpass in business what he had achieved in sport. Burnell brought his career to an end in April after eight years of representing Britain on the international stage. During that time he won European and World Cup m...

Jordan Wilimovsky has been the top open water swimmer in the United States over the past several years, winning the World title in the men's 10k in 2015 before finishing fifth at the Olympics in Rio. He will defend that World title this summer in Budapest after he pulled away to win the U.S. nationa...

A British quartet are set to compete at the FINA/CNSG Marathon Swim World Series 2021 in Doha this weekend as part of their preparations for the Olympic qualifier in May. Alice Dearing and Danielle Huskisson will line up in the women's race with Jack Burnell and Hector Pardoe in the men's equivalent...

Ana Marcela Cunha and Marc-Antoine Olivier were the winners of the FINA/CNSG Marathon Swim World Series in Doha. Taking place in the Qatari capital, the event was the first international marathon race for over a year with Cunha leading the way in the women's race which got under way at 6am. The Bra....

A six-strong British Marathon Swimming Team has been selected to compete at this summer’s World Championships in Hungary. Olympian Jack Burnell, as the most experienced athlete, will spearhead the outfit in what will be his third World Championships. The European silver medalist was a fifth place fi...

The fourth leg of the FINA/HOSA 10km Marathon Swimming World Cup 2015 was held yesterday on May 2 in Cozumel (MEX) as Haley Anderson and Jack Burnell topped 143 swimmers (74 men and 69 women) taking the departure. For some of the countries taking part in this race, Cozumel was considered as a qualif...

MARSEILLES, France, March 9. A day after torching the pool, Britain's Fran Halsall was back at it again at the Mediterranean Open in Marseilles. Halsall opened up the night with a 26.12 to win the women's 50-meter fly. That effort moved her from fourth in the world with a 26.25 to move to second in ...

Olympic medallist Jazz Carlin will embark on her first major open water test this summer, securing her place in the Europeans marathon squad. The 400m and 800m Rio silver medallist will be upping the distance at Loch Lomond as part of the European Championships, which will see races over 5k, 10k and...

The FINA Marathon Swim World Series gets under way on Saturday in Doha, Qatar, with world champions Florian Wellbrock, Ana Marcela Cunha and Kristof Rasovszky among a strong line-up. Olympic champions Ferry Weertman and Sharon van Rouwendaal also feature with a total of 137 swimmers from 34 nations ...

Tokyo Olympics: Who Will Capture Gold Medals in Unpredictable Open Water 10K Races? In 2016, the final hurrah of the Olympic swimming competition in Rio saw the Netherlands emerge with gold medals in the women's and men's 10-kilometer races, held at Copacabana Beach. In the women's race, Sharon van ...

The Soak - Swim News In Brief Collated weekly Swimming World soaks up snippets from the realm of water sports around the world in a one-stop digest updated each day of every passing week. If you have a snippet of news for us, let us know: editorial@swimmingworld.com Towards the end of last week, ...

GLASGOW, Scotland, April 15. DISTANCE swimmers put on a show tonight at the Tollcross International Aquatic Center, closing out the British long course nationals with some impressive swims that rank high in the global standings. After an impressive 800 free last night that put her at the top of the ...

British Olympian Jack Burnell prides himself with his relaxed attitude and even he admitted he took things a little too easy before winning today’s 5km Australian Open Water swimming Championship at Mooloolaba Beach. As the 99 starters in the open and age group wave made their way from the beach to ...