Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The 2011 European Masters Swimming Championships will be held in Yalta-Kiev, Ukraine on September 10th. The 3K events for men and women will be seeded in waves according to age groups, irrespective of gender. LEN organizes well-established events where the Head Referee only allows the race to start if […]

In the Great Salt Lake in Utah, world record holder Gordon Gridley and many others will participate in the Great Salt Lake Open Water 1-mile point-to-point swim, perfect for beginners and multi-sport athletes, and the longer 8.12-mile swim from Antelope Island to Black Rock Beach. This race originally started in 1927, but was discontinued after

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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The New Zealand Herald reported that Pamela Dickson, a 56-year-old grandmother of 10, became the oldest person to swim the length of Lake Taupo, the biggest lake in New Zealand. The 40.2K crossing from Waihi Bay to the Taupo Yacht Club took her 13 hours and 56 minutes on

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The vastly and eclectically talented Dr. Lucky Meisenheimer wrote a fictional sci-fi novel where the main character is an open water swimmer. “The first scene in the sci-fi lite adventure novel introduces an open water swimmer with his fiancée. The book is not about swimming, but the main characters

Craig Lord reported that FINA has renamed its the 10K circuit as the FINA 10km Marathon Swimming World Cup 2011/Memorial Fran Crippen. The 2011 season will resume in April with the Santos, Brazil race where several national federations will select their athletes for the 2011 World Championships in July. Cornel Marculescu told the Swim News,

Waterlife is a very creative website that describes the Great Lakes in Canada and America that serve not only as one of the world’s greatest supply of fresh drinking water for millions of Canadians and Americans, but also of the venues that are used by open water swimmers everywhere from Lake Ontario to Lake Michigan