Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California.

Minus. Negative. -0.7ºC.

Those kinds of really, really cold water competitions are coming to a conclusion with the end of winter.

Golden Sands Cup Bratislava is a 500m and 1 km winter swimming competition held in Wakelake in Bratislava, Zlaté piesky in Slovakia. But with the expected water temperatures between 7-10ºC in Wakelake, the water is warming up.

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