FINA confirmed Jinshan City Beach as its site for the open water swimming races at its 2011 World Swimming Championships. Its decision was based on the quality of the water, its proximity to high-standard hotels and the ability to fulfill the new safety conditions for the 5K, 5K Team Time Trial, 10K and 25K races. […]

Marjorie Spitz of Swim Free announced that the oft-decorated founder of the Manhattan Island Marathon Swim Drury Gallagher is getting back into action. Drury, who is being inducted into the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame this year at a special United Nations ceremony, has been a competitive swimmer for over 60 years. Marjorie explains,

Olympian swimmer Natalie du Toit won the South African 10K Open Water Swim Championships in the canals of Marina Martinique with Jessica Roux second. “It was an exciting race and it was awesome to see the homeowners cheering us on from the side,” said Natalie. “They helped us to swim a fast race and I

After setting the world record in an inter-island swim from Cayman Brac to Little Cayman earlier in the day, Lexie Kelly came back a few hours later and won the annual Cayman Brac Sea Swim. Lexie is shown above together with the youngest competitor in the event, Abbey Walton, and here on Cayman 27 TV.

Three-time pool Olympian Cecília Biagoli of Argentina proved herself as a force to be reckoned with FINA 10KM Marathon Swimming World Cup in Santos, Brazil today. The 26-year-old Olympian won the International Aquatic Marathon of Holy/Trophy Renata Chamber Agondi/ Unisanta over 40 other women on the first leg of the 2011 World Cup circuit besting

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Conducted under the recently adopted new rules of FINA, a few old-timers came out on top on the men’s side at the first race on the FINA 10KM Marathon Swimming World Cup circuit in Santos, Brazil. German Olympian Thomas Lurz captured the opening race of the 2011 circuit with

How clear is the water in the Cayman Islands? So clear you can see your shadow at night. In a test of clarity, Open Water Source went for a shoreline swim at midnight on Seven Mile Beach on Grand Cayman Island under a near full moon. The shadows of the swimmers were clearly obvious on

Emma France announced the beginning of Dover Training on April 30th and distributed a wide variety of information that all aspiring English Channel swimmers who train in Dover should keep in mind. “Freda Streeter would like everyone to thoroughly digest the new instructions prior to arriving. This includes what you need to bring and what

Flowers Sea Swim Coordinator Lexie Kelly, a native Californian, broke the existing record from Cayman Brac to Little Cayman with a 1:53:35 crossing this morning. The mini-channel swim was a 5-mile shot starting at West End Point on Cayman Brac and finishing at East Point at the Bluff on Little Cayman. The previous record was