Courtesy of Oliver Halder, © 2018 WoW – World of Wonders Art at the 2018 Ice Swimming Aqua Sphere German Open. The 4th Ice Swimming Aqua Sphere German Open 2018 between January 5th – 7th was a great success at a new venue at the Veitsbad in Veitsbronn near Nuremberg. The 50m 7-lane pool is […]

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Hardened swimmers from Ireland, Sweden, United States, England, New Zealand, Mexico, Moldavia and now India have accomplished the Oceans Seven. While each of the Oceans Seven swimmers have fascinating stories along the way to the Oceans Seven achievement, Rohan Dattatrey More‘s journey may be the most likely and most

Courtesy of Lexie Kelly, WOWSA, South Africa. Brent Szurdoki, representing South Africa and the Waterborn Swimming Club, has enjoyed a great career in the pool, racing at the Commonwealth Games in Australia, the FINA World Swimming Championships in Budapest in 2017, and the 2016 FINA World Short-Course Championships. But today, he had his only second

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The World Swimming Association in partnership with the World Swimming Coaches Association and the American Swimming Coaches Association is building an organization that is athlete-centered, transparent, clean and owned by the participants, coaches and athletes. For US$15 for United States residents and US$5 for non-United States residents, anyone can

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Say 21 miles to a channel swimmer and the English Channel will undoubtedly come to mind. 21 miles is the most renowned stretch of open water swimming in the world. Whether a channel swim is 20.2 miles (Catalina Channel), 26 miles (Molokai Channel), 21 miles (North Channel), 32-34 km

Courtesy of The National, Huntington Beach, California. It is clear that the sport of open water swimming is growing with heated debates over the governance of the sport. Andrew Learmonth reported that SOWSA (Scottish Open Water Swimming Association) lost its battle to manage and control the open water swimming waterways of Scotland. The joint effort

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Festival Acuático La Patagones Viedma will take place on February 10th – 11th, but will not be part of the FINA professional marathon swimming circuit this year.* Visit www.lapatagonesviedma.com for more information on the 3.75 km La Puente a Puente race, the 400m Cruce Simple del Río Negro, and

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. KIM SWIMS is showing at yet another film festival. The next showing will be at the Santa Barbara Film Festival on Friday, February 9th. For more information, visit here for the 7:20 pm – 8:35 pm showing at the Metropolitan Theatres (Fiesta 5 – 916 State Street, Santa Barbara,