Courtesy of FINA, Eilat, Red Sea, Israel. The biggest delegations at the 2018 FINA Open Water World Junior Swimming Championships in the Red Sea are are: Brazil, Canada, South Africa, Russia, and the USA, each with 12 swimmers. Today’s opening races at the 2018 FINA Open Water World Junior Swimming Championships were the boys and […]

Courtesy of Oscar Rubio, Mallorca, Spain. After the first three events on the Open Water World Tour, there are several swimmers in the running for the OWWT’18 crown. Co-founder Oscar Rubio announced that the winners of the Tour will be rewarded with an invitation to the first event of the OWWT’19 and weekend accommodations and

Courtesy of Marty Filipowski, Killantringan Lighthouse, North Channel. On the same day as Nora Toledano Cadena and Rachael Elkaim completed swims across the North Channel between Northern Ireland and Scotland, Marty Filipowski completed another successful swim on his Oceans Seven journey. After crossings of the English Channel, Catalina Channel, Cook Strait and Strait of Gibraltar,

Courtesy of WOWSA, Eilat, Red Sea, Israel. FINA will broadcast the 2018 FINA Open Water World Junior Swimming Championships that begins tomorrow in Eilat, Israel where over 200 athletes between 14 and 19 years old from 38 countries representing all five continents will race in the Red Sea beginning Thursday. The September 6th – 8th

Courtesy of Track RS, North Channel, Northern Ireland-Scotland. Infinity Channel Swimming and Piloting Services announced that American swimmer Ryan Utsumi from San Francisco completed his fourth career Oceans Seven channel today with a fast, fairly straight 10 hour 34 minute crossing of the North Channel from Northern Ireland to Scotland. “What a challenging swim. It

Courtesy of Madhu Nagaraja, Lake Erie, Canada-USA. The Lake Erie Guardians are people who believe Lake Erie is a beautiful, important body of water that needs to be protected. They organize events and instigate community action in order to educate the broader community about issues facing the lake and to serve as advocates for better

Courtesy of World Clinic, American Swimming Coaches Association, Anaheim, California. From Alfréd Hajós (gold, shown on left), Ioannis Andreou (silver) and Efstathios Chorafas (bronze) finished 1-2-3 at the 1896 Olympic Games in a cold 1.2 km bay swim in Athens, Greece. 112 years later in the warm ocean waters off Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Ferry

Courtesy of Night Train Swimmers, Anacapa Island, California. 15-year-old Paige Kieding is always fast asleep at 2 am. But not on October 1st when she will begin a two-person relay at that time with 69-year-old Vito Bialla from Anacapa Island to the California mainland. The duo will cover most of the 20 km channel in

Courtesy of Marcy MacDonald, Calais, France. Marcy MacDonald is a podiatrist by professional and a channel swimmer by heart and mind. Today, she finished her 16th crossing of the English Channel at a beach north of Calais, France in 15 hours 1 minute. It was her longest Channel crossing during her career that began in