In addition to the growing crowds that flock to the most well-known channels of the world (English and Catalina), the growth of the sport is also seen in the number of swimmers who challenge themselves in other lesser-known channels around the world. This week, Chris Layton and Marcia Cleveland were examples of such swimmers when […]

Australian swimmer Melissa Gorman who earned a position at the 2012 Olympics by placing 4th in 10K open water swimming event and a silver in the 5K team pursuit event, has qualified in the 7th position for the finals in the 1500m pool event. Gorman posted a time of 16:07.39. The women’s 1500m final will

Shelley Taylor-Smith made history again by becoming the first female head referee in a men’s open water world championship race. She received the honor in her trademark event, the 25K, where she once reigned as world champion. Besides her unprecedented string of victories around Manhattan Island, her records around the world and her 1991 world

Northeast Kingdom Open Water Swimming Association (NEKOWSA) will host In Search of Memphre, a 26-mile (42K) invitational swim across lac Memphremagog on September 10th. The invited swimmers include Elaine Kornbau Howley, Greg O’Connor, Jen Dutton and Charlotte Brynn. The course will be the length of the beautiful Lake Memphremago, either swimming from Newport, Vermont, U.S.A.

There is cold and then there is freezing. The Speedo Ice Swim Africa is a freezing swim, by definition. The Speedo Ice Swim Africa requires swimmers to complete a mile in water 5 degrees C or less. 16 extreme athletes successfully completed their ice swim in the 5 degree C water in an altitude of

Ana Marcela Cunha (BRA) 5:29:22.9 Angela Maurer (GER) 5:29:25.0 Alice Franco (ITA) 5:29:30.8 Olga Beresnyeva (UKR) 5:29:35.6 Martina Grimaldi (ITA) 5:29:36.2 Anna Uvarova (RUS) 5:29:38.9 Celia Barrot (FRA) 5:29:40.8 Margarita Dominguez (ESP) 5:29:42.0 Silvie Rybarova (CZE) 5:29:51.3 Cecilia Biagioli (ARG) 5:29:58.7 Maria Bulakhova (RUS) 5:34:21.2 Karla Sitic (CRO) 5:37:49.8 Esther Nunuz (ESP) 5:38:09.6 Tash Harrison

Official OMEGA Timing Results for Men’s 25K World Championship Open Water Swim Petar Stoychev (BUL) 5:10:39.8 Vladimir Dyatchin (RUS) 5:11:15.6 Csaba Gercsak (HUN) 5:11:18.1 Francisco Jose Hervas Jodar (ESP) 5:11:20.4 Trent Grimsey (AUS) 5:11:28.2 Allan Do Carmo (BRA) 5:11:32.2 Vasily Boykov (RUS) 5:11:36.3 Joanes Hedel (FRA) 5:13:03.1 Yuriy Kudinov (KAZ) 5:13:08.6 Libor Smolka (CZE) 5:13:20.1

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