In the latest update on the July 2011 Special Olympics World Summer Games 1.5K open water swim in Marathon, Greece (see attached photo), 29 athletes from around the world have already entered including those from Australia, Bahamas, Barbados, Cayman Islands, Gibraltar, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Korea, Malta, Netherlands, Singapore and South Africa with interest expressed by […]

Mark Walter announced over 1,400 attendees will attend the inaugural Multisport World Conference and Expo in Bethesda, Maryland this weekend. Multisport World Conferences and Expos are also held in Cambridge, Massachusetts and New York City. Seminars galore on a variety of swimming, running, biking, nutrition, injury prevention and training are one of the most popular

Nika Kozamernik from Slovenia is a world-class open water swimmer who competes on the FINA professional marathon swimming circuit and was third overall in the 2009 European Open Water Swimming Cup. Nika’s primary focus in 2010 will be the World Open Water Swimming Championships in Roberval, Canada. “My goal is to finish in top 16

FINA announced the date of the 2010 FINA Open Water Swimming Grand Prix event in Ohrid Lake in Macedonia is confirmed to be August 14th. The full schedule for the 2010 FINA Open Water Swimming Grand Prix, the longest and most competitive marathon swimming race series in the world, is posted here. Copyright © 2010

blueseventy inked an agreement with the new Lakeside Multisports Centre in Eastleigh, Hampshire, England to continue its investment in the sport of open water swimming. Lakeside Multisports Centre sits on an open water swimming lake and will open in April when it will offer free swimming opportunities for the first month. Swimmers under the age

The International University Sports Federation (FISU) will hold its first 10K open water swimming event at the Universiade 2011 (World University Games) in Shenzhen Bay (深圳湾) in China. The 10K race will be an extremely competitive one in mid-August 2001. Copyright © 2010 by Steven Munatones

The FINA Aquatics World Magazine selected Larisa Ilchenko as its Female Open Water Swimmer of the Decade, an honor rightly deserved. The 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 world 5 km gold medalist from Russia was also the 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008 world champion in the 10 km marathon distance as well. To top it