Courtesy of WOWSA, Lac de la Haute-Sûre, Luxembourg. Open Water Luxembourg includes a 500m, 1 km, 3 km and 5 km lake swim at the Base Nautique Lultzhausen at Lac de la Haute-Sûre. in Luxembourg on July 14th. For more information, email mail@swimming.lu or visit here. Copyright © 2008-2018 by World Open Water Swimming Association

Photo of swimmer Abigail Fairman and kayaker Alex Arévalo near Arch Rock courtesy of Tanya MacLean; information courtesy of Evan Morrison, Santa Barbara Channel Swimming Association. Abigail Fairman set a new course record of 5 hours 30 minutes for the 19.6 km channel crossing from Oxnard on the California mainland to Anacapa Island across the

Courtesy of Jenny Smith, Sandycove, Ireland. Cork Distance Week is heading towards its middle and will soon culminate in its 8th day with the Body Brain Confusion Swim. Started on June 30th and ending on July 8th this year in Cork, Ireland, the world-renowned marathon swimming preparation camp is designed and led by International Marathon

Courtesy of Masayuki Moriya of Ocean Navi in the Tsugaru Channel, Japan. It was not looking good for Nora Toledano Cadena and Mariel Hawley Dávila, two Mexican swimmers, to be able to attempt a second attempt at crossing the Tsugaru Channel. The veteran pair of marathon swimmers had been frustrated before when they traveled from

Photos courtesy of Steve Robarts, Manhattan Island, New York. As she swam nearly 46 km around Manhattan Island enjoying the sights of skyscrapers and the urban density of humanity from three rivers surrounding America’s biggest city, Kate Robarts struggled with the combination of the local heatwave and water much warmer than what she is used

Courtesy of WOWSA, Manhattan Island, New York. 57-year-old Kamil Resa Alsaran and 54-year-old Ragip Vural Tandoğan, both from Istanbul, Turkey, completed the 20 Bridges Manhattan Island Swim together in a tandem swim, finishing 12th in 10 hours 15 minutes. Tandogan did an English Channel crossing in 2016 while Alsaran completed two English Channel crossings (13