Courtesy of Channel Swim Japan, Tsugaru Channel, northern Japan. 36-year-old Cameron Bellamy became the first South African and the 11th person in history to complete the Oceans Seven with an 11 hour 7 minute 28 second crossing of the Tsugaru Channel yesterday. After a DNF across the Tsugaru Channel in October 2017, the South African […]

Courtesy of Lewis Pugh, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa. “Next week, I announce a swim unlike any challenge I have previously undertaken,” tweeted International Marathon Swimming Hall of Famer Lewis Pugh. The photo above shows Derrick Frazer after helping Pugh prepare off the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa. But since Pugh has

Courtesy of WOWSA, lac St-Jean, Canada. “Por décima vez vuelvo a estar seleccionada para competir en lac St Jean 32 km (Canadá),” reported Rita Vanessa Garcia of Argentina. “Es la segunda fecha del Circuito Ultra Marathon Swim Series Fina, es una gran felicidad volver a representar mi querida ciudad Santa Fé y Argentina. Esta es

Courtesy of New York Open Water, Hudson River, New York. Eight marathon swimmers are attempting to live up to David Barra’s mantra, “Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.” Swimmers between the ages of 28 and 54 are attempting to complete the 7-day, 7-stage 8 Bridges Hudson River Swim from June 19th through June 26th. Race

Courtesy of Miquel Sunyer, Costa Brava, Spain. “When people ask me whether I’ve come across large cetaceans or predators during my swims, my answer is that I have mainly encountered suspended plastic waste and floating rubbish. This sad fact has awakened my awareness of the need to start up the Eco-Swimming movement,” says Miquel Sunyer,

Courtesy of Swimming Canada, Cayman Islands. Stephanie Horner, Eric Hedlin and Hau-Li Fan will represent Canada at the 2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships held in Chiba, Japan. Horner won today’s 10 km race at the UANA Open Water Swimmming Championships on Grand Cayman Island. She will join Mackenzie Padington who qualified previously as Canada’s representative

Courtesy of Mainichi Newspaper, Tokyo, Japan. Before the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, Russian ice swimmers, led by Alexander Brylin, carried the Olympic torch relay on its way to Sochi, Russia for the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in 2ºC (35.6ºF) water in the Amur River. Before the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, Japanese open water swimmers, replicating traditional

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Stephanie Horner, three-time Olympian shown on left, will represent Canada in open water swimming at the 2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships held in Chiba, Japan. Another pool Olympian, two-time medalist Jazz Carlin, will represent Great Britain at the European Championships in Loch Lomond this summer. 1500m Olympic gold medalist