Courtesy of Kevin Light. Three-time Canadian Olympian Stephanie Horner of Beaconsfield, Quebec has proved herself in the pool and she is gradually proving herself in the open water. Horner finished 8th in the 10 km race at the 2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships in Chiba, Japan to earn Swimming Canada’s Female Open Water Swimmer of […]

Courtesy of Michael Teys, Sydney, Australia. The inaugural Australian Channel Swimmer’s Dinner was held on November 17th at the MUA/ITF Conference Center in Sydney. Michael Teys hosted the event. “We celebrated Australian long distance swimmers and their crew. We recognized this year’s Oceans Seven swimmer and Triple Crown of Open Water Swimmers while paying tribute

Courtesy of Ice Swimming Hall of Fame. South African Ram Barkai was one of the inaugural honorees of the Ice Swimming Hall of Fame. It is no surprise that Barkai was recognized as an Honor Swimmer and Honor Contributor – Administrator by the new organization founded by several luminaries in the ice swimming community, led

Courtesy of Marc-Antoine Olivier, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. “With 200 meters to go in Copacabana Beach, I was very excited about the probability of earning an Olympic medal,” said Marc-Antoine Olivier. Ultimately over the last stretch of all-out sprinting in a tight pack of 8 swimmers, the then 21-year-old French open water swimmer earned a

The Great Wave off Kanagawa courtesy of Katsushika Hokusai, Sagami Bay, Kanagawa, Japan. The Great Wave off Kanagawa (神奈川沖浪裏), also known as The Great Wave or simply The Wave, is a famed ukiyo-e print by Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai, published sometime between 1830 and 1833 in the late Edo period as the first print in