This athlete will be attempting the first swim from Little Cayman Island to Grand Cayman Island in 2011. Swimming among venomous creatures will be a major issue, so this swimmer is covering up. Who is it? Copyright © 2010 by Open Water Source

The race organizers for the Damme-Brugge Open Water Swim were nominated as one of the 2010 World Open Water Swimming Performance of the Year as the race celebrated its 100th year anniversary this year. As a part of the Belgium Swimming Federation though a bit rogue, the race is held in Brugge, a historic and

The athletes at major international races often wear two transponders on their wrists. The transponders are light with limited GPS capabilities. In the call room, the officials hand out the transponders one-by-one to the swimmers who are responsible for crossing the finish line with both transponders. The transponders enable the timing company and race officials

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Marcelo Guiscardo, Race President, Claudio Plit, Race Director, and Patricia Querejeta, Organizing Committee President, of the La Patagones Viedma race, announced their new prize money for the new 12K race (with a US$15,000 cash purse and US$2,500 for first) on February 5th and the 1.6 km Negro River sprint

The Enviro-Sports team is introducing a number of Sharkfests™ around the USA. The inaugural Potomac River Sharkfest™ Swim will be held May 22nd, 2011. Because the Sharkfests™ are held around America, the San Diego Sharkfest Swim will become the National Sharkfest Series Championships on October 9th. Each overall first place winner (male and female) from

Bicycle Dreams is the dramatically told, true story of the Race Across America, a 3000-mile bike race across America. The solo and relay race is legendary among land-based endurance athletes and the American media who often call it the hardest race in the world. But we ask: Can the solitude of a cyclist on the

Chris Dahowski of Swim 22, a nominee for the 2010 World Open Water Swimming Performance of the Year, will be organizing open water orienteering swims in California next year. The open water orienteering is similar to land-based orienteering, but consists of a two-person team: a kayaker or paddle boarder (navigator) and the athlete-in-the-water (swimmer). The

At the 2nd Asian Beach Games in Barr Al Jissa Qantab in Muscat, Yanqiao Fang of China, one of the world’s best marathon swimmers who finished fourth at the 2010 World Open Water Swimming Championships, proved the class of the field with a dominating victory in the 10K Fang finished in 2:04:12.0, over 6 minutes

At the 2nd Asian Beach Games in Barr Al Jissa Qantab in Muscat, Lijun Zu of China finally broke the winning streak of Saleh Mohammad of Syria who had won the 5K and 10K in the 1st Asian Beach Games and the 5K in the 2nd Asian Beach Games, but his victory was not an