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Swim Miami Enhances International Swimming Hall Of Fame Festivities Courtesy of Swim Miami, Miami Marine Stadium, Florida. Swim Miami is one of the largest open water swimming events in the United States. Race director Jonathan Strauss organizes 800m, 1 mile (The Miami Mile), 5 km, 10 km and K-9 Krawl events held on April 26th […]
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Tough Strong Swimmers from TSS Win Australian 5 km Relay Title Courtesy of Ian Hanson, Hanson Media. Photo courtesy of Swimming Australia, Brighton Beach, Adelaide, Australia. The TSS Aquatic Club A team won the 4×1.25 km relay at the 2020 Australian Open Water Swimming Championships in Brighton Beach, Adelaide. 5 km Relay Result: 1. TSS
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Lewis Pugh Sees Light At The End Of The Tunnel Courtesy of Kelvin Trautman of Lewis Pugh, East Antarctica. Lewis Pugh, the United Nations Patron of the Oceans, explained his most recent East Antarctica here in a very descriptive post (Light At The End Of The Tunnel). For more information about his Antarctica campaign, visit
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Courtesy of Matthew De George, Swimming World Magazine. Sid Cassidy received another honor in his long five-decade career as a swimmer, coach, official and administrator. The North Carolina Swimming Hall of Fame will induct Cassidy as a member of the Class of 2020 this coming March. “Our Class of 2020 North Carolina Swimming Hall of
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Kareena Lee Wins Another Title At Australian Open Water Championships Courtesy of Ian Hanson, Hanson Media. Photo of Mackenzie Brazier, Chelsea Gubecka, Nick Sloman, Chloe Gubecka, Bailey Armstrong, Hayden Cotter, Kareena Lee, and Kai Edwards courtesy of Swimming Australia, Brighton Beach, Adelaide, Australia. It was not surprising that 2020 Tokyo Olympian Kareena Lee won the
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Lewis Pugh’s Ice Sheet Swim Courtesy of Lewis Pugh, East Antarctica. Lewis Pugh, the United Nations Patron of the Oceans, sent the following messages to world and business leaders at the World Economic Forum in Davos on January 21st. “The ice sheet is melting at an unprecedented rate. We simply cannot waste anymore time. Change
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Simon Holliday Recalls The History Behind The Chinese Zodiac Courtesy of Simon Holliday. Simon Holliday, a marathon swimming Learning & Development Professional and co-founder at Splash Foundation, wrote, “A long time ago, the Jade Emperor decided mankind needed a calendar to measure the passing of time. Each year of the cycle would be represented by
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Pre-dawn Swimming In Seal Beach Courtesy of Peter Knapp, Seal Beach, California. International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame honorees Cindy Cleveland, Lynne Cox and Penny Dean, and their open water coach Siga Rose trained in Seal Beach, California since they emerged in the channel swimming community in the 1970’s. Site of 50 editions of the
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Alisa Fatum Breaks Ice Ceiling Courtesy of Christof Wandratsch, Veitsbronn, Germany. Greta Andersen, Judith van Berkel-de Nijs, and Shelley Taylor-Smith are in an exclusive club of open water swimming women over the last 70 years who have competed against their male counterparts mano-a-mano and beat them in the 2.8°C water. Alisa Fatum has now joined
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Courtesy of Shonan Open Water Swimming, Japan. The Shonan Open Water Swimming event has been held for 16 years and included a 2.5 km fin swim as well as a 500m and 10 km point-to-point mainland-to-island marathon swim with 468 participants. For more information, visit shonanows.jp. Copyright © 2008 – 2021 by World Open Water
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