Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. At the August 22nd Pan Pacific Swimming Championships 10K Marathon Swim special guests, including Michael Phelps and Ryan Lochte, are scheduled to attend. Cheering along the shoreline in Long Beach’s Marine Stadium, aquatic’s greatest superstars will show their support for their open water swimming teammates. On the women’s side,

The New York Times reported on the US$14,950 AvidaSwim system that collects, tracks and analyzes real-time information from swimmers while they are training. AvidaSwim has five wireless sensors that are worn on the head, wrists and feet and monitor pace, stroke count and distance per stroke. If the swimmer needs instruction from the coach while

Last month, Penny Palfrey was named Townsville City Council’s Senior Sportsperson of the Year for the third year straight – another award for the marathon swimmer from Australia who was recently inducted into the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame. Senior, junior or somewhere between, Penny has been outstanding. She was awarded based off of

Patti Bauernfeind, the world record holder (10:38) for the Lake Tahoe crossing, is attempting a Monterey Bay Swim on August 21st. To date, Cindy Cleveland is the only person to successfully swim the 23 miles (37K) across the Bay – just south of San Francisco – in 1980. The water is cool – 56°F (13°C)

Liz Rosen of the Fat Salmon Swim in Seattle, Washington took some outstanding photos at this past weekend’s event where 326 swimmers out of 326 participants finished the race under calm conditions. The results of the 1.2-mile and 3.2-mile swims are posted here. Copyright © 2010 by Steven Munatones

Alex Meyer vs. Valerio Cleri After 24.9K The amazingly strong sprint finish of the men’s 25K world open water swimming championship between American Alex Meyer (shown on left) and defending 10K and 25K world champion Valerio Cleri of Italy was captured by Etienne Couture from one of the official’s boats. The duo battled each other

Without a doubt, the New Zealand Ocean Swim Series is one of the greatest open water swimming events in the world. Race Director Scott Rice and his team at Quantum Events have broughts waves of professional event management experience, vision and passion to open water swimming and several iconic locations in New Zealand. Combined with