Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Güneş Kibar PhD, MSc is a Fulbright Scholar, a Turkish swimmer and an event organizer of the Youth and Sports Club of Hacettepe Üniversitesi in Turkey. She is a Turkish lecturer who is a Fulbright Scholar and researcher who is developing novel means to produce micro and nanostructured lipid carriers at …

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Courtesy of the Wild Swimming Brothers, UK.

Richard Gardner is doing a swim trifecta in high-altitude lakes in the Sierra Nevada.

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. An Olympic dream came true for many today at the final FINA Olympic Marathon Swim Qualifier in Parque Urbano de Albarquel in Setúbal Bay, Portugal. 15 swimmers qualified for the Tokyo Olympics including Hector Pardoe who raced against his British teammate Tobias Patrick Robinson to capture the overall victory …

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Courtesy of WOWSA Live, Huntington Beach, California.  June 1st – Alick Wickham* (SOL) – read bio June 2nd – Johnny Weissmuller* (USA) – read bioJune 9th – Michael Read (GBR) – read bioJune 11th – Jacques-Yves Cousteau (FRA) – read bio June 18th – Gerald Forsberg* (GBR) – read bioJune 23rd – Gail Roper (USA) – read bioJune 29th – Paul Boyton* (USA) – read bio Copyright © 2008 – 2021 …

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Courtesy of John Batchelder, English Channel. After waiting through a government-mandated quarantine and his window, John Batchelder finally got to attempt a 33.5 km crossing – swimming only butterfly – of the English Channel. 16 hours 13 minutes (unofficially) after stepping off the English coast, Batchelder landed in France on June 29th to become one …

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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. As countries around the world start to begin another round of quarantines and lockdowns due to COVID-19, the Tokyo Olympic Games are set to begin as scheduled on July 23rd. Swimmers and athletes from dozens of nations have already entered Japan during June and hundreds of additional squads are …

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Courtesy of Piers Townley, The Brain Tumour Charity, Lake Geneva, Switzerland. Sir John Royden remembers his sister Emma who passed away due to a brain tumor in 2003 when she was 32. He said, “One distinguishing feature about my sister Emma was that she was loved and liked by everyone that she met. On the …

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He will swim across the Ilulissat Icefjord, fed by the world’s fastest moving glacier, in Greenland. The swim is expected to take two weeks starting today. No one has ever attempted a multi-day swim in the Polar Regions.