Courtesy of Marc-Antoine Olivier, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. “With 200 meters to go in Copacabana Beach, I was very excited about the probability of earning an Olympic medal,” said Marc-Antoine Olivier. Ultimately over the last stretch of all-out sprinting in a tight pack of 8 swimmers, the then 21-year-old French open water swimmer earned a

The Great Wave off Kanagawa courtesy of Katsushika Hokusai, Sagami Bay, Kanagawa, Japan. The Great Wave off Kanagawa (神奈川沖浪裏), also known as The Great Wave or simply The Wave, is a famed ukiyo-e print by Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai, published sometime between 1830 and 1833 in the late Edo period as the first print in

Courtesy of Pat Goding, Waikiki Beach, Oahu, Hawaii. Members of the Waikiki Swim Club randomly swam into Ben Lecomte off the Oahu coastline in Waikiki Beach this morning. Pat Goding reported, “After two typhoon setbacks during The Swim [his transpacific stage swim across the Pacific Ocean that was aborted due to safety reasons after 160

Courtesy of Rich Roll, California. After he cracked up and entertained with his humor and humility the Open Water Summit at the Olympic Club in San Francisco, California, Ross Edgley headed off to an interview with famed podcaster Rich Roll. Roll was impressed with Edgley’s unprecedented 157-day, 209-stage 2,884 km assisted stage swim around Great

Courtesy of WOWSA, Río Coronda, Argentina. Over the decades, there have been innumerable number of great moves in open water swimming races. This is another part of the Great Moves In Open Water Swimming History series. France’s Stéphane Lecat loved the 57 km professional marathon swimming competition called the Maratón Acuática Internacional Santa Fe –

Courtesy of Ned Denison, Ice Swimming Hall of Fame. Ice swimming was formalized and defined by the International Ice Swimming Association in 2009 as open water swimming done without a wetsuit or any form or neoprene in water held in water 5°C or less. The extreme niche sport – popularized by Ram Barkai and his