Courtesy of Alejandro Martínez, Maratón Acuática Internacional Santa Fe – Coronda, Argentina. Erika Yenssen is a 19-year-old qualifier of the 44th edition of the 57 km Maratón Acuática Internacional Santa Fe – Coronda. The psychology student will compete in the 57 km river race on February 4th. “I am very happy to qualify for the […]

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Bruckner Chase and Michelle Evans-Chase will give a 2-hour speech and Q&A period called ‘Mindfulness and the Endurance Athlete’ held at the GU Energy Labs in Berkeley, California on January 18th. The husband-and-wife team will discuss the science and tools behind training an endurance athlete’s brain to respond to

Courtesy of Melissa Cunningham, International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame. Melissa Cunningham, an Honor Swimmer and a member of the Executive Committee of the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame, announced a new Instagram account for the IMSHOF (see @imshofame). “We would love to celebrate your achievements and from time to time we will contact

Courtesy of Marilyn DiLascio, Hudson Valley, New York. In September 1954, Marilyn Bell DiLascio and Florence Chadwick started their separate solo swims across Lake Ontario from New York to Toronto at nearly the same time. While Chadwick was offered $10,000 to make the crossing, Bell set off without the expectation of a payoff. 20 hours

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Competitive open water swimming at the highest levels combines the aerobic conditioning of running, the tactics of cycling, and the toughness of water polo (or boxing). Manny Pacquiao is one of the world’s greatest boxers in history. Over the course of his career, he won world championships in seven

Toshio Tominaga is a 73-year-old Japanese open water swimmer who will soon attempt to swim across the Tsugaru Channel in Japan. If Tominaga is successful in swimming from Honshu to Hokkaido in northern Japan, he will enter the annals of channel swimming as one of the oldest athletes ever to successfully complete a channel challenge.

Results courtesy of www.zeitnehmung.at, Veitsbronn, Germany. Wunderkind Hanna Bakuniak from the Polish Ogrodnik Team won her fifth race in five events (including 1 km ice kilometer, 50m freestyle, 200m breaststroke, 50m butterfly and 500m freestyle) at the 2018 Ice Swimming Aqua Sphere German Open. The Polish wunderkind held off 38-year-old German schoolteacher Julia Wittig, representing

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Swim With A Mission is a charity swim with 1 km, 5 km, 10 km and 10-mile relay races held in Newfound Lake in New Hampshire in July. Organized by Julie and Phil Taub, the event benefit veterans, specifically the Navy SEALs. “Please join us for an open water