Courtesy of WOWSA, Sfax, Tunisia. Nejib Belhedi is ready to go on the longest, toughest, most challenging swim of his career: a 120 km solo unassisted swim from Southern Salin Basin in Thyna-Sfax at 7:30 am on Saturday, September 15th with the expected finish 74.5 miles away on Jlij Island. “I have swum for 24

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Michael Teys of Australia and Trevor Colman of the UK both became the latest swimmers to achieve the Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming. The 56-year-old Aussie finished third with his 7 hour 23 minute 59 second completion of the 20 Bridges Manhattan Swim. The 64-year-old British swimmer finished

Courtesy of WOWSA, Maratona del Golfo Capri-Napoli, Italy. Francesco Ghettini won the 53rd edition of the Maratona del Golfo Capri-Napoli in Italy today. Men’s Results: 1. Francesco Ghettini (ITA) 6 hours 56 minutes 11 seconds 2. Evgenij Pop Acev (MKD) 6 hours 59 minutes 59 seconds 3. Lars Bottelier (NED) 7 hours 0 minutes 25

Courtesy of WOWSA, Maratona del Golfo Capri-Napoli, Italy. Barbara Pozzobón is the defending FINA Open Water Swimming Grand Prix champion who won the 32 km Traversée internationale du lac St-Jean in Canada on July 28th. Pozzobón continues her streak and swim well at the 36 km Maratona del Golfo Capri-Napoli. She won the 53rd edition

Courtesy of Xavier Desharnais, Lac St-Jean, Québec, Canada. Jacques Amyot passed away at the age of 93 on September 7th in Quebec City, Canada where the famed marathon swimmer was born. “How sad it is to lose such a great man. For those who do not know him, Jacques Amyot was the first man to

Courtesy of Tim Hochradel on Tateyama Hojo Coast in Chiba, Japan. The focus of most media attention about open water swimming is on the athletes themselves, whether the swimmer is young or old, slow or fast, amateur or Olympic. But the people guiding on the escort boats, paddling on kayaks, and passing food and hydration

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games marathon swim will be held in Odaiba Marine Park in Tokyo Bay, a very flat, very warm-water venue. The 2024 Paris Olympic Games marathon swim will be held in the Seine near the Eiffel Tower, the same venue that hosted the 1900 swimming events.*

Courtesy of Track RS and Kristina Evelyn, Barbados, Caribbean Sea. After achieving the Oceans Seven in June 2018, Cameron Bellamy found himself in the midst of another challenge against Mother Nature: a Swim Around Barbados, a 96 km circumnavigation attempt that three people have attempted but none have finished. Kristina Evelyn of the Barbados Open

Courtesy of Yaniv Cohen and FINA, Eilat, Red Sea, Israel. There is a different kind of pressure when you swim in an individual race and when you swim as a representative of your country in a relay. The athletes who raced in the team relays on the third and final day of the 2018 FINA