Swimmers and fans of extraordinary endurance feats can meet environmental campaigner, explorer, author and swimming pioneer Lewis Pugh who will give a motivation talk followed by a book-signing of his book, Achieving the Impossible, at the Speedo Concept Store at Canal Walk in Cape Town, South Africa this week on December 9th. Former Prime Minister […]

There will be two husband-and-wife pairs on the professional marathon swimming circuit come December 26th. Besides Christian and Nadine Reichert of Germany, Damian Blaum of Argentina is getting married to Esther Nunez Morera of Spain. What is remarkable is that Damian Blaum and Esther both placed second overall in the notoriously difficult FINA Open Water

Marcellus Wiley went from not being able to swim a lap of the pool to doing ocean swims within two months. “The water will always win,” says the former NFL football star and current ESPN analyst. “Everyone has their hurdles in life and this [open water swimming] is just another hurdle. You can overcome it.

Keo Nakama, an inductee in the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame, was a multi-sport star and one of the greatest swimmers of his era. And, boy, did he use some classic goggles. Too bad manufacturers don’t make those anymore. Who cares about fit, when you look cool? Marilyn Bell of Canada (shown on left)

Britta Kamrau, a world champion and inductee in the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame, will appear on Open Water Wednesday to reflect back on her remarkable career and her retirement that was announced last week. She’ll also inform the Open Water Wednesday audience of the next stages of her land-based career – working at

FINA announced some major changes to its 10KM Marathon Swimming World Cup 2011 calendar in order to allow its Task Force to complete its investigation of the causes and circumstances of the tragic loss of Fran Crippen and to allow the the FINA Bureau and Technical Open Water Swimming Committee to consider its findings. As

Young kids, adults and professional open water swimmers took to The Great Brisbane Swim under rough conditions… …with smiles all around. Brisbane was the first stop on the inaugural Great Australian Swim Series tour where Trent Grimsey and Melissa Gorman not surprisingly took the top honors at Sutton’s Beach Redcliffe. It was a great mixture

During an open water swim, you simply can’t get a song out of your head. You sing the song over and over in your head – the same lyrics, the same words over and over again. Sometimes that is a good thing when you have the right tune…but sometimes it can be annoying if it

Professional marathon swimmers are a select group. This year, 187 men from 38 countries and 145 women from 35 countries competed in FINA pro marathon swims in Argentina, Brazil, Canada, China, Hong Kong, Italy, Macedonia, Mexico, Portugal, Serbia and the United Arab Emirates. Like professional athletes in any sport, they are a proud, committed, seriously