Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Ferry Weertman won back-to-back gold medals at the Olympic 10K Marathon Swim at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games and in the 10 km marathon swim at the 2017 FINA World Championships. Extraordinarily impressive to say the least. But his 26-year-old Dutch girlfriend, Ranomi Kromowidjojo, is setting the standard and […]

Courtesy of Stephen Junk, North Channel. Stephen Junk was supposed to be almost on his way to Ireland for his last Oceans Seven attempt. After completing crossings of the English Channel, Catalina Channel, Cook Strait, Strait of Gibraltar, Molokai Channel, and Tsugaru Channel, he had one channel left: the North Channel between Northern Ireland and

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Photos and videos emerging from Lake Champlain in New York [see here] show periods of glassy, tranquil waters intermixed with slightly more turbulent conditions on Day 1 for Sarah Thomas‘ unprecedented 104.6-mile (168.3 km) course on an island loop route. While the conditions appear between acceptable to ideal for

Courtesy of WOWSA, English Channel. Chloë McCardel is undergoing her final preparations for an unprecedented four-way crossing of the English Channel (history’s first solo quadruple Channel crossing). If there is anyone who could do it in the contemporary swimming world, it is the 32-year-old McCardel who already has a career total of 21 English Channel

Courtesy of Elaine Howley, Lake Champlain, New York-Vermont. A few days after Caroline Block attempted a two-way crossing of the North Channel, fighting gallantly for 28 hours 55 minutes, and the same day that Chloë McCardel announced her four-way 136 km English Channel crossing between August 29th and September 2nd, Sarah Thomas walked into calm

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Chloë McCardel is about to attempt the unthinkable. She has done one-way crossings of the English Channel. She has done two-way crossings of the English Channel. She has done a three-way crossing of the English Channel. And now she will attempt a four-way crossing. A successful non-stop four-way crossing

Courtesy of Elaine Howley, Boston Light Swim, Massachusetts. 24-year-old Katelyn Kidney won her first major race at the 8-mile Boston Light Swim. Race director Elaine Howley said, “For the second year in a row, we had a 100% completion rate. We had about the best conditions we’ve ever had out there: flat calm, almost no

Courtesy of André Wiersig, Catalina Channel, California. “Finishing an open ocean channel swim for me is very different than finishing an Ironman triathlon or a marathon run,” says German endurance athlete André Wiersig who has done marathon runs, Hawaiian Ironman triathlons and four Oceans Seven channels. “I always feel deep gratitude for the ocean. All