2008 Beijing Olympic 10K Marathon Swim Results: Gold: Maarten van der Weijden (Netherlands) 1:51:51.6 Silver: David Davies (Great Britain) 1:51:53.1 Bronze: Thomas Lurz (Germany) 1:51:53.6 4. Valerio Cleri (Italy) 1:52:07.5 5. Evgeny Drattsev (Russia) 1:52:08.9 6. Petar Stoychev (Bulgaria) 1:52:09.1 7. Brian Ryckeman (Belgium) 1:52:10.7 8. Mark Warkentin (USA) 1:52:13.0 9. Chad Ho (South Africa) […]

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Open Water Wednesday. I will serve as the host and will ask you both questions. You both can answer and feed off each other. I want to ask you the following questions: 1. What is the state of swimming in Ireland right now? 2. How are people handling this lockdown? 3. When may pools and

Open water swimmers are serious minded types of individuals. They live by the mantra, Expect the Unexpected, but they also plan and detail out many contingencies and options before their swims. Likewise, we heard that some open water swimmers want to make sure of a blissful future life with their fiancé or fiancée. These are

‘==Daily News of Open Water Swimming Recap== ”Four Southern California swimmers each took themselves to their limits in the Catalina Channel throughout their 52-hour unprecedented Swim 22 effort. Lead-off swimmer [[David Hartmire]] successfully completed the first leg of the 20-mile Catalina Channel in 11 hours and 52 minutes. David’s relay transition to the second swimmer

Bob McCormack discussed the life and swims of Jim Doty with Ned Denison on WOWSA Live