Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. LEEDS, UK–At the British Swimming Coaches Association (BSCA) Conference last weekend, Melanie Marshall garnered a third-straight Coach of the Year (CotY) honours. Marshall was cited for her work with Adam Peaty. Disability CotY honors went to Glenn Smith, and Youth CotY went to Alan Bircher. A report on the […]

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Pieter Christian Jongeneel Anderica of Málaga, Spain completed a double circumnavigation swim of Manhattan Island in New York in 20 hours 15 minutes. Jongeneel’s time broke the existing record of American Skip Storch of 20 hours 56 minutes set in 2007 en route to Storch’s triple circumnavigation swim in

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. It is nearly impossible to accurately predict the medalists in the Olympic 10K Marathon Swim at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games…but some athletes are ideally prepared to swim the race of their lives and capture gold. One of those athletes is a two-time Olympic veteran who came within 0.4

Dougie Fitzsimmons is a new open water swimmer from Elderslie, Scotland. SWIMMING EXPERIENCES: I was only a recreational holiday swimmer, then completed a weekends ‘Total Immersion’ swimming course. After meeting Robert I commenced outdoor swimming at Bardowie Loch with Vigour Events. Have been swimming with them for one season, including winter swims. Am now comfortable

<i>Photo courtesy of <a href=”http://openwaterswimming.wiki/index.php?title=Josef_K%C3%B6berl”target=”_blank”>Josef Köberl</a>, <a href=”http://openwaterswimming.wiki/index.php?title=Hintertuxer_Gletscher”target=”_blank”>Hintertuxer Gletscher</a>, Austria</i>. <br><br/> The year 2018 saw an incredible number of outstanding swims by outstanding swimmers guided by passionate volunteers and governed by experienced administrators and coaches all over the world. The athletes proved the bar in all the various niches of open water swimming continues to

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Got it. There are still swimmers or relays who swim in various bodies (e.g., Catalina Channel), but they are not looking for official sanctioning or even observers. Some of them are trying to raise money for local charities and they see the sanctioning fee as cutting into their donation

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Celebrating 10 Years of Swimming the Kingdom 80 Swims – 764.8 Miles As 2018 comes to a close, we are celebrating 10 years of organized, supported, amateur, open water swimming in the legendary lakes of the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont. We started with the 1, 3, and 10-mile distances