Courtesy of WOWSA, San Francisco, California. Shelley Taylor-Smith experienced quite a year in 1991. Not only did she turn tradition on its head by wearing a two-piece swimsuit for the first time in history of FINA competitions. At the 1991 FINA World Swimming Championships held in Perth, Australia, she won the inaugural 25 km open

Courtesy of Catalina Channel Swimming Federation, Catalina Channel, California. Aleksandra Ewa Bednarek and Hanna Bakuniak, two young Polish swimmers, used their time and resources wisely on their trip out to the west coast of the United States. Bednarek swam against the wind and swell from Sacred Cove on the Southern California mainland to Doctor’s Cove

Courtesy of World Clinic, American Swimming Coaches Association, Anaheim, California. The 50th World Clinic hosted by the American Swimming Coaches Association on September 4th – 9th in Anaheim, near Disneyland, California, will include a comprehensive 4-hour presentation on Coaching Open Water Swimming by Steven Munatones. He explains, “The presentation will start off by explaining the

Courtesy of Uminchu Club, Tokyo, Japan. Teruko Onuki has done a lot in her life in the open water. The 56-year-old Tokyo native has kayaked 3,500 km down the Amazon River over 45 days. She has run a program for Morinaga Foods to help Japanese children become comfortable in the sea over the past two

Courtesy of Ron Collins, Tampa Bay Marathon Swim, Florida. There are all kinds of bucket swims from the Oceans Seven to the Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming (English Channel + Catalina Channel + Manhattan Island Marathon Swim or 20 Bridges Manhattan Swim). In 2015, Ron Collins, the race director of the Tampa Bay Marathon