Martin Hobbs, Solo Swimming Success And Smiles
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Musing And Marathoning With Myatt
Together with Mark Leighton in 2018, John Myatt completed the first double crossing of the English Channel by a two-person male relay and they swam from England to France in 10 hours 41 minutes and from France back to England in 12 hours 8 minutes in a overall time of 22 hours 49 minutes.
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Keeping Pace At SCAR Swim Challenge
Courtesy of Kent Nicholas, S.C.A.R. Swim Challenge, Canyon Lake, Arizona. Under the Arizona sun, two 38-year-olds Jessica Kieras and John Batchelder are literally turning the 4-day S.C.A.R. Swim Challenge into a mano-a-(wo)mano dual. The 38-year-old from Colorado, Batchelder, and the 38-year-old Kieras are separated by only 1.9 seconds after the 15.2 km Day 1 stage
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Alan Viana Does The Amazon Challenge
Courtesy of Pierre Gadelha, Rio Negro, Brazil. On April 13th, Pierre Gadelha started a new marathon swimming project called the Amazon Challenge that includes 18 km or 30 km races and opportunities for swimmers to schedule either of these two distances any day of the year. The swimmer Alan Viana finished the 30 km distance
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Jessica Kieras Wins Day 2 Of S.C.A.R. Swim Challenge
Courtesy of S.C.A.R. Swim Challenge, Canyon Lake, Arizona. Under the Arizona sun, Jessica Kieras turned the tables on another 38-year-old on Day 2 of the 4-day S.C.A.R. Swim Challenge. The 38-year-old from Oregon beat John Batchelder by 37 seconds to win the 14.4 km Canyon Lake stage. Batchelder had finished ahead of Kieras by 39
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Germany Sweeps IWSA World Cup Titles
Courtesy of Oliver Halder, International Winter Swimming Association, Petrozavodsk, Russia. The overall male and female age group winners of the most recent International Winter Swimming Association World Cup season were both Germans: Christof Wandratsch with 636 points in the 50-54 age group and Jaqueline Jänike with 630 points in the 55-59 age group. The pair
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Unique Awards In The Open Water Swimming World, Part 17
Unique Awards In The Open Water Swimming World, Part 17 Courtesy of WOWSA, Bermuda. The Bermuda Four Corners Challenge is a series of 4-mile swims in Bermuda that are held without safety boats, buoys or route markers in scenic, but less commonly swum, parts of Bermuda that was created by Mike Cash. The four courses
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Shigemi On Swimming In Japan
Courtesy of Shigemi Yoshimura. Shigemi Yoshimura created an English-language informational summary of the open water swims throughout Japan from Okinawa to the four main islands of Japan: Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku and Kyushu. Copyright © 2019 by Shigemi Yoshimura
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Fast Flyer Freestyles, Finishes First
Courtesy of S.C.A.R. Swim Challenge, Saguaro Lake, Arizona. John Batchelder is well-known globally as a prolific marathon swimming butterflyer. But he shifted gears on his first marathon swim of 2019. The Colorado resident, escorted by Lynn Acton, writes, “I have another busy year planned [that started] today with the first leg of S.C.A.R. Swim Challenge.
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